Nebraska Groups Working with the UN to Expand Welfare

By Shelli Dawdy On December 9th, we published an article about the “Symposium on Maternal Child Health in Nebraska” convened by the National Association of Social Workers and United Nations Foundation in Omaha on September 30, 2010. As I reported, friends from Omaha arranged for a person to attend the event for the purpose of [...]

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A Merry Christmas at American Airports?

Please note that the new TSA screening procedures are of an offensive nature, so humor generated about the whole subject naturally tends to be…a bit racy. We recommend viewer discretion. For a few serious articles on the topic, check out the following… Think Concerns Over New TSA Airport Security Overblown? Alternative to Virtual Strip Searches [...]

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Tax Deal Details and Summary

Summary of Tax Deal More Details on Tax Deal Obama won the great tax-cut showdown of 2010 ˜ and House Democrats don’t have a clue that he did. In the deal struck this week, the president negotiated the biggest stimulus in American history, larger than his $814 billion 2009 stimulus package. It will pump a …

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As D.C. Hemmorhages Red Ink, House Sends Trojan Horse Bill To Senate

By Shelli Dawdy As the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, the federal government ended November as the 26th month in a row spending more money that it had taken in (by $150.4 billion) and the most recent projections available mean Fiscal Year 2011 could reach a new record $1.5 trillion deficit, topping the 2009 [...]

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Not Even a Whole Set of Ginsu Knives Can Help Bernanke with this Slice and Dice Job

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke appeared on 60 Minutes this week, apparently to soothe Americans’ concerns. This of course, is a necessary PR effort at this point. Wonder if that PR firm the Fed hired in 2009 advised Bernanke to make the appearance? Perhaps, although these efforts don’t appear to be working all that well. [...]

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