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He just gives you a fourth.

In September, Iran ignored Obama’s September 15 deadline to return to negotiations. And in October, Iran ignored a UN deadline backed by Obama and world nations to reduce atomic stockpiles. 

December 31 was supposed to be a firm deadline, a date set by President Obama for Iran to respond to the President’s continued outreach over stopping its nuclear program. But like those before, this deadline came and went without any action taken by Tehran and news sources reporting today that the Iranian regime has been given another month by the Obama administration.  So much for the “very real deadline” Obama’s Press Secretary Robert Gibbs reemphasized a few days before Christmas.

Obama’s fourth deadline on Iran in as many months hasn’t been the only recent failure of his administration’s misguided policy of engaging with Iran. In yet another sign that the Iranian mullahs have no interest in engagement, the Iranian parliament decided not to allow Sen. John Kerry ... more

Today, USA Today reports the U.S. Census Bureau will spend a whopping $340 million to promote the 2010 Census. A 46-foot trailer and 12 cargo vans advertising the census will stop at 800 events across the country. The Census Bureau will also run ads during the Daytona 500, the NCAA Final Four, and even the Super Bowl, which is well known for having high costs for commercial time. The Census’ Super Bowl ads alone will cost $2.5 million. So where did they get all this money?

Last July, the U.S. Census Bureau announced they had received $1 billion in stimulus funds, a portion of which has been set aside for “expanding the 2010 Census communications and advertising campaign.”  This begs the question, is Obama’s stimulus funding Super Bowl ads for the Census? 

If the stimulus is indeed funding the Super Bowl ads instead of creating jobs, we shouldn’t be surprised that Obama’s own Assistant Treasury Secretary for Economic Policy, Alan Krueger, admitted that “in absolute terms, the ... more