The folks over at Bankrupting America have produced a video and infographic that really puts our current jobs crisis in perspective: I really can’t add anything here other than pointing you to a rather chilling analysis from Investor’s Business Daily: U.S. Won’t Recover Lost Jobs Until March 2020 At Current Pace. This election is probably […]
Archives for 2010
Happy Birthday Navy!
From Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff: Two hundred and thirty five years ago, Continental Congress passed legislation to fit out “two swift sailing vessels” with ten guns and eighty crewmen creating the humble beginnings to what would become the United States Navy. We celebrate this day as the Navy’s Birthday every year, […]
WSJ: Democrats Unleash the IRS and Justice Department on Donors to Their Political Opponents
Democrats and Liberal activists love to accuse Republicans of being fascists or Nazis or using McCarthyite rhetoric while at the same time threatening their political opponents with IRS and Justice Department investigations: If at first you don’t succeed, get some friends in high places to shut your opponents up. That’s the latest Washington power play, […]
Breaking: National Security Advisor Jim Jones to Resign
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that President Obama’s National Security Advisor Jim Jones is resigning. He is expected to be replaced by Tom Donilon, the deputy national-security adviser. It’s not uncommon for advisers or cabinet members to resign, but I can’t recall ever seeing this many high profile presidential advisers leave in such a […]
U.S. Economy Loses 95,000 Jobs in September, Unemployment Remains at 9.6%
Stagnation… That’s really the only way to describe today’s jobs report. The U.S. economy shed 95,000 more jobs last month and the number of underemployed grew by 612,000, and now stands at 9.5 million people: WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The U.S. economy lost 95,000 nonfarm jobs in September as local and state governments shed positions at […]
It’s the Spending, Stupid
If a picture really is worth a thousand words… Then this chart from the Heritage Foundation says it all: Bottom line; we’re not under taxed… The government spends to much! H/T: James Pethokoukis.
WSJ: All About Murkowski
The Wall Street Journal this morning takes incumbent Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski to task for her half baked, revenge motivated write in campaign: While 2010 is shaping up as the year of the conviction politician, the election is also throwing up candidates running on little more than their personal sense of entitlement. On that score, […]
Whoa: Obama Underwater in Delaware
Hmm… I just saw this over at Ace’s place: The Democratic polling firm PPP has released the results of a new survey showing pro-abortion President Barack Obama fares worse in terms of his approval rating in key presidential states than he did in 2008, when he was elected. Obama’s approval rating there is now under […]
Karl Rove: O’Donnell Must Explain Witchcraft Comments
This is priceless… Karl Rove on Sunday called on Delaware GOP senate candidate Christine O’Donnell to explain comments on witchcraft she made during a guest appearance on Politically Incorrect 11 years ago: Karl Rove – the top GOP strategist who declared last week that Christine O’Donnell’s surprise victory does “little good” for the party – […]
This & That: It’s the Spending, Stupid; Why It’s Time for the Tea Party; Bush Tax Cuts Benefited Taxpayers at Every Level; and More…
I’ve been pretty remiss about writing lately, I’ve just had too much on my plate and I haven’t felt like I’ve had much to contribute… Anyway, here’s a few must reads from the week that was… The Wall Street Journal last week published two columns that are absolute must reads, first is Daniel Henninger’s Op-ed […]
Nine Years Later…
Every of September for the last nine years I’ve tried to make sense of what happened that morning… No matter how hard I try, I can’t, the events of September 11, 2001 were an act of such incomprehensible evil that they defy words. Every moment of that day is burned indelibly into our memories, I […]
Video: Can 8-28 rally-goers match spending facts with the right president?
The gang over at Bankrupting America took their camera’s to the Restoring Honor rally in D.C. today to test the attendees government spending IQ… The result are interesting. Before watching the video see if you can answer the following questions: Bush or Obama? This president spent a record-breaking $3 trillion in a single year. Bush […]
Poll: American’s Don’t Much Like Congressional Republicans
Tom Jenson, writing on Public Policy Polling’s blog notes that Congressional Republicans aren’t terribly popular Americans… or even their own base: Our last national generic ballot poll found the Republicans ahead 45-42 despite the fact that Congressional Republicans had a 24/61 approval rating. Even among respondents who said they were going to vote Republican the […]
Paris Hilton Arrested for Cocaine Possesion in Las Vegas
It’s a slow news day and, well anyone who didn’t see this coming is moron… LAS VEGAS – Paris Hilton was arrested on the Las Vegas Strip late Friday after a police motorcycle officer smelled marijuana smoke wafting from a black Cadillac Escalade driven by her boyfriend, then found a small amount of cocaine in […]
CNBC: Economy Caught in Depression, Not Recession
I be the first one to admit I’m a pessimist on the economy, but not even I’m this pessimistic: Positive gross domestic product readings and other mildly hopeful signs are masking an ugly truth: The US economy is in a 1930s-style Depression, Gluskin Sheff economist David Rosenberg said Tuesday. Writing in his daily briefing to […]