Archive for February, 2011

February 28, 2011 05:40

Gasoline: No Cure For High Prices Like High Prices

[A]s winter ends, QE2 expires in June with QE3 an unlikely scenario, and China cools off its economy to fight inflation, gasoline and distillates probably have already seen their highs for the year already.

February 28, 2011 05:14

Piven & NPR Go Into Mega Spin to Attack Beck for Daring to Discussing Her Theory

It’s A Lunatic Story: Kindly Grey Haired Piven & NPR Go Into Mega Spin to Attack Beck for Daring to Discussing Her Theory.

February 25, 2011 15:25

A Warning About Things to Come

All of a sudden, as though someone gave the signal, resolutions are pending in several state legislatures to use the never-before-used power set forth in Article V to petition Congress to “call a Convention for proposing Amendments.”

February 25, 2011 15:15

Sen. Marco Rubio vs Pres. Obama on National Security

Senator Marco Rubio’s first filed amendment seeks to enhance our national security. Naturally this entails trying to nullify a recent Obama Executive Order.

February 25, 2011 12:27

Top 12 Countries Most Likely To Go Belly Up

Europe trumps all other regions with 11 out of twelve courtiers rated as “extreme risk.” However, quite surprisingly, only one PIIGS country–Italy which takes the top spot–is in the top 12.

February 25, 2011 12:15

There Are too Many Bureaucrats and They Are Paid too Much

This mini-documentary uses government data to show how federal, state, and local governments are in fiscal trouble in part because of excessive pay for a bloated civil service.

February 25, 2011 12:02

State of the unions in Wisconsin

This is video from the gallery of the WI Assembly past 1 AM in the morning on 2/25/2011. The Democrats have just been told by the speaker pro tempore there will be no more debate before the vote, even though there were more than a dozen Democrats in the queue to speak. They shout “Shame! Shame! Shame!” The majority voted to end debate and vote.

February 25, 2011 11:54

Six Teenagers Killed in Two Separate Attacks in Ciudad Juárez

Just when one thinks the violence in Mexico could not be any more shocking, one reads that in Ciudad Juárez gunmen opened fire on six children playing in the yard of a home, killing three girls aged 12, 14 and 15, state authorities said Thursday.?

February 25, 2011 10:55

Christie’s Deptford Town Hall Pension Breakdown

The choice is make a sacrifice now or the program goes broke. Chris Christie explains the pension budget shortfalls to a town hall. The same generally is true of other programs -sacrifice now or it will go broke.

February 25, 2011 09:52

The Fall of the House of Sanger?

How did such a formidable political force become so vulnerable? It didn’t just happen in one election.