“Home Depot would never have succeeded if we’d tried to start it today”

Small businesses across the country, struggling today just to survive let alone expand, were joined over the weekend by some very big guns in business; Steve Wynn of Las Vegas and Bernie Marcus, founder of the formidable Home Depot chain came out swinging against the Obama administration’s anti-business ideology; Marcus made his feelings known in [...]

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Senator Campbell: DON’T GO AWAY MAD. JUST GO AWAY.

The article about Medicaid coverage for prenatal care in Nebraska that was published in the Sunday, July 24th, Lincoln Journal Star is so full of bias, unsupported conclusions, and half-baked analysis it’s difficult to know where to begin to respond.  I’m going to take a stab at it anyway over the next few days.  But [...]

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Can’t score a speech, Timmy G.

Even Chris Wallace knows that But Geithner sticks to the Party Line anyway, even though it makes NO sense; Read Doug Powers wrap-up of the Debt Talks Kabuki play. Doug asks; Where’s Wallace’s “are you a flake” question when it’s really needed? Geithner also said he opposes any short term deal that would make debt a main topic of [...]

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Tell Your Reps..Just Say “No”! to Cut, Cap, and Balance

Feigning Powerlessness to Retain Power House Republicans are certainly afraid that they could be accused of causing a default on the debt.  But with almost $200 billion in monthly revenue, there is no shortage of money to pay the necessary $39 billion monthly tab to the creditors of the United States.  Any accusation of precipitating …

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Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-135) Mission Highlights

I’ll leave the politics and future (or lack thereof) off for later. This was a spectacular last flight, a lot of people worked hard to bring this off from start to end. I’m going to miss that thing, and the BOOM BOOM when it crossed the coast to land at Edwards AFB a little over [...]

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ANOTHER SCANDAL THAT COULD TAKE OBAMA DOWN by Joseph Farah WND

 The following article published by WND, illustrates the depth and width of the corruption in the entire political system in the District of Columbia. It also illustrates the corruption in the media , including Fox and the rest.  It also shows that there is not one single law enforcement agency of the federal government that is legitimate.  [...]

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Deserving of Darts: Debt Ceiling Trial Balloons From Dems and GOP

Considering that most of the wheeling and dealing involved in government goes on behind closed doors, more likely than not most of what we Americans hear and see playing out in the media is maneuvering. These P.R. battles seem to provide politicians the ability to “throw some red meat” to their respective bases of support. [...]

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Way cool; Apollo 8 and 11 high-speed camera views of the Saturn V launch

I guess watching the last US Space Shuttle mission (STS-135) with the last Shuttle (Atlantis) made me nostalgic. I went looking for the spaceflights I remember watching as a kid, and found YouTube had more than I realized. Seeing the video below of high-speed camera footage of two launches (Apollo 8 and Apollo 11) put [...]

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California Democrats stampede businesses to other states

Funny thing, they probably have no clue why anyone would want to leave For years California conservatives have been warning the state’s Democrats and liberal Republicans that the damage they were doing to business would soon cause a mass exodus elsewhere. Now even CNN notices the rumbling hooves headed to other states; NEW YORK (CNNMoney) [...]

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