A recent Capitol Hill hearing offered grounds for suspicion that the railroad’s 20,000 employees—who average $90,000 a year in pay and benefits—have cousins in high places. It came out in the hearing that Amtrak loses more than $80 million a year on food services. – City Journal
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October 23, 2012 05:22
Obama’s Education ‘Progress’ Is Only Union Hiring Not Improving Education
The President conflates the quantity of teachers with their quality. At best, these two factors are uncorrelated. At worst—in those few states and districts which pay teachers based on performance—the two factors are negatively correlated …
October 22, 2012 04:45
Hard Core Dem Newspapers Endorse Romney
The far left Tennessean endorsed Mitt Romney today. It was the first time the paper endorsed a Republican in decades. The Orlando Sentinel also endorsed Mitt Romney. The paper endorsed Barack Obama four years ago. – Jim Hoft
October 19, 2012 05:19
Why Does Affirmative Action End at the Gridiron?
Since everyone obviously has different skills, talents, and ambitions people inevitably perform and produce at different levels. Therefore to make everyone end up in the same place it is necessary to hold some back and artificially advance others.
October 19, 2012 05:08
Winners and losers energy policies – guess which one is Obama’s
Obama continues to waste billions of taxpayer dollars to subsidize unreliable, unsustainable, inefficient, insufficient energy forms .. – even as 80% of Department of Energy grants and loans went to companies owned or controlled by Obama contributors;
October 18, 2012 06:09
Silence of American Feminists is Deafening
Instead of directing their time and energy to issues that could use their support and attention – like the plight of women suffering under the boot of Muslim extremism – the majority of American feminists choose to focus on comparatively petty concerns.
October 18, 2012 05:59
Another ‘Bama Boondoggle – Over Half of Foreclosures Now ‘Repeats’
It is that delaying the inevitable makes the problem worse. Had these borrowers finished the foreclosure process the first time around, housing prices would have adjusted quicker and the housing market would have also been on the road to recovery quicker.
October 18, 2012 05:31
The Point About the Debates Everyone is Missing
What matters is that the debates have made Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan look credible and allowed voters to give themselves permission to do what they have wanted to do for several years — fire Barack Obama.
October 17, 2012 05:45
Why Obama Hates People
Socialism cares a great deal for the group, or more specifically for favored interest groups. Capitalism cares for the individual. No strident and consistent proponent of Big Government socialism such as Obama could care much for individuals.
October 17, 2012 05:29
Another Green Loser for Obama as Battery Co. Files Bankruptcy
Losing another $249 million taxpayer dollars, A 123 Systems adds to the growing list of “green” companies that Obama has squandered our money on. At least $16 BILLION of the giveaways have gone to companies with ties to Obama contributors or those with ties to other prominent Democrats. Obama continues to push the green schemes despite the fact that no global warming has occurred for 16 years. Can we afford four more years of economic suicide?
