Steve Wynn, CEO of Wynn Resorts, had some frank words about President Obama:

…everybody is so political, so focused on holding their job for the next year that the discussion in Washington is nauseating.

And I’m saying it bluntly, that this administration is the greatest wet blanket to business, and progress and job creation in my lifetime….

…A President that seems, that keeps using that word redistribution. Well, my customers and the companies that provide the vitality for the hospitality and restaurant industry, in the United States of America, they are frightened of this administration.And it makes you slow down and not invest your money….

The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don’t invest, their holding too much money. We haven’t heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody’s afraid of the government and there’s no need soft peddling it, it’s the truth. It is the truth. And that’s true of Democratic businessman and Republican businessman, and I am a Democratic businessman and I support Harry Reid. I support Democrats and Republicans. And I’m telling you that the business community in this company is frightened to death of the weird political philosophy of the President of the United States. And until he’s gone, everybody’s going to be sitting on their thumbs.

[T]he position that Obama is now taking on medical marijuana—go after producers and sellers but leave patients alone—is no different from the position his predecessor took. In fact, Obama’s crackdown on medical marijuana is, if anything, more aggressive than Bush’s, with more frequent raids, IRS audits that threaten to put dispensaries out of business, forfeiture threats to dispensaries’ landlords, and direct interference in the legislative process by U.S. attorneys. This is certainly not what voters thought they were getting when they heard Obama repeatedly promise to change course on this issue.

Full article here.

How’s that hope and change working out for you?

Meet the new boss… worse than the old boss.

Here in Austin, a women hit and killed a pedestrian. The woman left the scene, but was later apprehended and charged. Here’s the story.

I’m not here to talk about the incident itself, but rather the reporting of the incident.

The local news is making a big to-do out of this because of the woman’s job: she’s a staffer for a Texas State Representative.

Why are we supposed to care about this? Why is her day job something to focus on? Why does that make this more newsworthy than other hit-and-runs? Is it because she’s young, pretty, and blonde? The news media does suffer from “pretty white girl syndrome“. Is it because she works for a Republican and the liberal news media wants to try to draw some sort of evil connection?

If this woman worked as a garbage collector, would they care? even if her boss was a Republican?

Can someone please tell me why this angle of reporting? Why is it newsworthy? Why does it matter?

Or is it just their bias showing through?