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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]