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Sunday, April 18, 2010

Mining and Aggregates Industries to Face Backlash over Mine Explosion?

You just watch. I will bet tomorrow’s lunch that President Obama and the rulers in Congress use the tragic deaths in the Performance Coal Company mine explosion in West Virginia as grounds to hound and persecute the American coal industry out of business. After all, both President Obama and... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Congressman Doesn’t “Worry About the Constitution”

Misrepresentative Phil Hare (D-Illinois) exposed in startlingly precise terms the attitude the rulers in Washington have towards the Constitution when he admitted, on camera, "I don't worry about the Constitution on this... " when confronted about his vote for health care demolition. Damon W. Root... Sign in to see full entry.

What Porkulus Projects? Construction Spending, Employment Still Declining!

Vice President Biden claimed in mid-March that 10,000 construction projects were now underway thanks to funding by the so-called American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, more accurately called the Porkulus (see... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Construction spending at lowest point since 2002

Vice President Biden says there are 10,000 Porkulus projects underway. Yet construction spending is at its lowest since 2002, while industry employment remains deeply depressed. Read this article from http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100401/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/us_construction_spending: Construction... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, March 29, 2010

The Congress With No Rules

This Congress is above the law, and one of its own members says so. No less an authority on lawlessness than Misrepresentative Alcee Hastings (D-Florida) said a few days ago, Misrepresentative Hastings is eminently qualified to make such an assertion. Hastings was a federal judge, until he was... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, March 21, 2010

10,000 Porkulus Projects Underway! Construction Unemployment Depressed!

That oxymoron summarizes consecutive news headlines in an e-mail news digest I got Friday from ForConstructionPros.com. In detail: Screamer No. 1: 10,000 Recovery Act Transportation Projects Now Under Way (see http://www.marketinglabs.cygnusinteractive.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=6,nbh,3p,ig2... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Pelosi Trumpets Success of Porkulus, Ignores Democrat Failures

From Speakerette of the House Nancy Pelosi’s speech before the 2010 Legislative Conference of the National Association of Counties: “... we passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, creating and saving up to 2 million jobs so far, and more to come. “And think of this – jobs. In the first... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, March 8, 2010

What Happened to All Those Shovel-Ready Jobs?

Remember how, just over a year ago, President Obama and his fellow statists were all agog about how wonderful the Porkulus would be for the economy? Remember those heady days of hope and change? Remember how the President specifically promised that unemployment would not exceed eight percent if the... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

U. S. Air Force: National Defender, or Luxury Chauffer for the Elite?

Last week, it was disclosed that House Speakerette Nancy Pelosi (D-California) had blown over $100,000 in lavish refreshments, booze and other goodies for her jaunts aboard Air Force planes. It’s not bad enough that she and the other liberal fatcats are whooping it up on your dime while you’re... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Prime Minister of Newfoundland Comes to America for Heart Surgery

See the news item at http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2510700. Pray for him, he has foolishly left Canada’s vastly superior government-run health care system and subjected himself to the horrors and nightmarishly primitive conditions of what is only the 37 th best health care system in... Sign in to see full entry.

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