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 [...]
As in, coal-fired plants can save us all from “Global Warming™”? Now who will save us from idiot environmentalists? I remember back in 7th grade at Sevilla Elementary School in Phoenix having a science teacher who predicted an “Ice Age” by 1995; a year that in 1971 or 2 seemed like a million years away. [...]
In 1993, Alan Greenspan began his dissasterous economic American monetary policy by artificially lowering the Fed Rate, and interest rates accross the board. When it started I and many others critized the Fed chairman for his policies , encouraged by then President Bill Clinton. I called my then Senator and former Mayors office, to no avail, demanding a [...]
A story about Soviet Army paratroopers in Afghanistan Every so often on Netflix streaming video, I catch a movie I’d never heard of before. Usually Netflix gives you suggestions based on what you’ve seen and rated; some absolutely suck and the comments reflect that, so I go there first and see what others are saying [...]
Request to meet and confer sent today to Patrick Nemeroff, attorney for the Commissioner of the SSA Astrue in Taitz v Astrue Request to stipulate to production of the application to SS_5 application to SSN 042-68-4425 Taitz v Astrue 11-cv-402 RCL Dear Ms. Shapiro, Mr. West and Mr. Nemeroff While FOIA legal actions do not require meet and [...]
Nebraskans concerned about U.S. sovereignty and the health of our economy, may want to get in touch with Dave Heineman regarding the upcoming forum explained forum. See the bottom of this article for Governor Heineman’s contact information. Several weeks ago, our friends at OK-SAFE alerted us to the fact that the National Governors Association [...]