This article is part of a continuing series about candidates for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Ben Nelson. Our first look at each candidate includes some general information and links to databases about campaign finances, voting records, and some news reports. Prior articles: Jon Bruning Announces Bid for Senate [...]
Slowly the pieces are coming together, and it’s going to be hard for him to deny No “I inherited” on this one. Project Gun Runner (Fast and Furious) was launched under the orders of President Barack Obama with the knowledge of Attorney General Eric Holder. Deputy Attorney General David Ogden announced the Obama Administration’s new [...]
Think again “The numbers, they are awful.” 9.2% — unemployment rate for June. 0.1% — increase since May. 16.2% — underemployment rate for June. 0.4% — increase since May. 8% — conventional wisdom for the maximum allowable unemployment rate to win reelection. 15 — remaining BLS reporting months before Election Day. 255,000 — net jobs [...]
My reaction to the steady flow of news reports regarding what a failure the February 2009 Stimulus has been can be summed up as follows… Thanks to Norlyn, I was provided with a more enjoyable and clever way to say… “Duh!” I recommend that the President, his many Czars, and the legions of pointy-headed central [...]
Will you vote in a unconstitutional election ? Its time we fish or cut bait with regard to the eligibility of Barack Hussein Obama. For the past three years Americans have been lied to , miss lead and betrayed by the Democrat Party, the Republican party, the Federal Election Commission , the federal courts [...]
Report on Senate Healthy Forest Task Force: Show Low, AZ June 30th, 1:00 p.m. Thank you to the Senators who took the time and made the effort to travel to Show Low last week for the “Healthy Forest” task force hearing: - President Russell Pearce - Majority Whip Steve Pierce - Senator John Nelson – [...]
THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION — JUNE 2011 Nonfarm payroll employment was essentially unchanged in June (+18,000), and the unemployment rate was little changed at 9.2 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment in most major private-sector industries changed little over the month. Government employment continued to trend down. Household Survey Data The number [...]
We live in a country where the quality of life has been the envy of the world. How many people worldwide try to sneak in here every year? We’ve seen over the last decade, as the size of government has grown, as government has taken more and more control over our lives, that’s beginning to [...]
As noted in a couple of prior articles (for a list, scroll to the bottom), we’ll be looking into all of the candidates for Nebraska’s U.S. Senate seat currently held by Ben Nelson. In our first round looking at each candidate, we’re sharing some basic preliminary information and links we’ve discovered. This article focuses on [...]
Marco Rubio, again speaking truth to power Text of his speech from the Weekly Standard; We don’t need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. Then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to [...]