Saturday, March 5, 2011

Random Round-Up 03-05


President Obama Job Approval

Thos sexy-beasts from Trifecta. YUM

Tea Partiers Clean-Up Mess Left By Union Protesters in Wisconsin

Black Leaders Rip Obama Claim of Tea Party Racism

Well Ford Motors was never in the coal-powered vehicle business before - Bill Ford Sounds EV Retreat

NEAL MCCLUSKEY ON THE GAO FOR-PROFIT SCHOOLS SCANDAL

Nanny of the Month (Feb 2011): Would-Be Brothel Banner Sen. Harry Reid!


Utah Passes Arizona-Style Immigration Law

Immigration Wars: More States Looking at Arizona-Style Laws It's not that you are not welcome here, it's just that we must insist you come through the front door and not by the back window.

Insider Trading Inside the Beltway

Boehner on Entitlement Reform: We’re Serious



Human Rights Watch and Libya

Local Governments Keep on Paring Payrolls

John Galt vs. Bamtrak

It's a Chicago recipe. Kathleen Sebelius Admits The Obamacare Books Were COOKED

Lies, Damn Lies & Government Statistics: How Bureaucrats Use Numbers to Manipulate Us


The Struggles of Men

Drilling Here, Drilling Now: It’s Just Common Sense. We are living lives of self-imposed impoverishment.

ObamaCare's Uncertain Future

MSNBC Anchor: Unborn Babies Oppose Laws Limiting Right To Abort Them What a tool.


Show Your Work, Professor

Gallup Finds U.S. Unemployment Hitting 10.3% in February

Farewell, My Lovely How public pensions killed progressive California

Look for the Union Label

Simpson files anti-body-scanner bill

Bernanke’s Macroeconomic Errors



Money Can't Buy Love...Unless You're Goldman Sachs

Obama Launches 2012 Fundraising Effort in Miami So I imagine Organizing for America is busy turning off all the online identity verification software.

ABC: Long-term unemployed “the new Irish”

2012 Republican Presidential Nomination. Personally, neither of them seem that great to me.

Republican Reactive Neutrality

Holder MUST GO - AG Holder Needs to Retract False Statement about Domestic Violence Holder made a mockery of Obama's pledge to keep ideology out of scientific inquiry

DC Spending, Financial Solvency & Economic Growth

Gov. Walker: Obama Should Fix His Own Budget Crisis

Reason.tv: Collective Bargaining and the Bottom Line-Q and A with Heritage Foundation’s James Sherk


Why America Will Stay on Top Eminent historian Paul Johnson on Sarah Palin, the tea party, and 'baddies' from Napoleon to Gadhafi.

Santelli: 'Good' Jobs Report Has Dark Side

U.S. Employer-Based Health Coverage Continues to Decline Nationwide, 16.3% of U.S. adults were uninsured in February

A Call to Violence on a Facebook Page for Upcoming Rally Supporting Illegal Immigration

Did flawed US policies play role in death of a border patrol agent? Before a US border patrol agent was killed in a shootout with Mexican bandits, the agents opened fire with bean bags. Found at the scene: two guns the ATF allowed gun runners to purchase.

Busting the Birth-Control Myth. Planned Parenthood claims women get more abortions if they don’t have access to contraception—though research suggests otherwise.
To preserve its federal subsidy, Planned Parenthood continues to claim that without its contraception services the abortion rate will go up. This deception smacks of a fleecing of taxpayers in an effort to promote an ideological agenda, rather than a sincere effort to help women plan families.

What is that ideology, exactly? To find out, you have to dig through Planned Parenthood’s tax forms because the group certainly isn’t going to tell you. According to its most recent tax filing, the purpose of Planned Parenthood Federation of America is to provide leadership in “[a]chieving, through informed individual choice, a U.S. population of stable size in an optimum environment; in stimulating and sponsoring relevant biomedical, socio-economic, and demographic research.”

So it is, in reality, a population-control organization.
Well, eugenics, particularly focusing on African-Americans, was Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger's primary goal.

Walker notifies unions of layoffs, but gives Democrats 15 days to reverse move If you see this fleebag, call the Wisconsin's Governor's Office!


Better Question: What Wouldn't Jesus Cut?

We Don't Need U.N. Approval to Save Libyan Lives Why is the Obama administration deferring to an international body that protects brutal dictatorships?

Insider Trading at the Department of Education?

Welfare-funded Hawaiian vacations ... no, seriously

Video: Collective Bargaining 101


The Scariest Defense for ObamaCare

Still Too Big, Still Can't Fail The biggest banks are bigger than they were before the last crisis.

Harvard Professors say: ROTC Bad. Gaddafi money Good!

Obama Does Not Walk His Talk

No wonder health costs are so high

Chivalry Is Dead Was Murdered by Zero Tolerance

Exclusive: NASA Scientist Claims Evidence of Alien Life on Meteorite

Saving the village in order to destroy it

If the banks face no risk, we shall all go down

Sebelius Gets Her Comeuppance As House Begins Its Obamacare Challenge


The Real News on Jobs

Wisconsin’s Teachers: Betraying Students, Robbing Taxpayers. Are they loyal to anything but themselves?

Backers doubt states will find alternatives to healthcare mandate

And YUM. The Crescent City's Greatest Po'boys Seventy-two hours of gravy-faced, napkin-thrashing, French bread-crunching taste-testing of New Orleans' most beloved sandwich.

Friday, March 4, 2011

Junk Science 03-04



John Holdren: White House Malthusian

Global Warming Alarmists Flip-Flop On Snowfall

A Toxic Consensus on Toxic Substances? Brace yourself for another round of bureaucracy.

They call them "electric" but at the end of the day, they are really coal-powered cars - Sales of GM and Nissan electric vehicles fall short of expectations

Republicans ramp up push to block EPA climate regulations

The End of the Drilling Permitorium? Guess Again. The first permit issued for drilling in the Gulf since the Obama administration declared a moratorium is ... not for a new well at all.

San Franciscans discover the law of unintended consequences

World's sixth mass extinction may be underway: study

3 Dems join GOP fight to block EPA climate rules

Obamacare 03-04



Would Universal Health-Care Coverage Actually Improve Health?

Judge Clarifies That When He Declared ObamaCare Void, He Really Meant It

Healthcare Reform Hot Topics

HHS Secretary Sebelius admits to double-counting in Obamacare budget

ObamaCare, Hurray!! From the Quebec Corner!

Vinson to White House: Stop Stalling When he declared Obamacare unconsitutional, it wasn’t just “friendly advice.” AND Speed It Up, Buddy

Healthcare Fraud $200 Billion Annually

Mitch Daniels’s Obamacare Problem His state’s health-care plan promotes dependence on government

Sibelius admits double-counting Obamacare savings

Healthcare (March 2011)

Daily Round-Up 03-04



BOMB THREAT at Scott Walker News Conference–Leftist Protester Arrested!

China cracks down to prevent 'Jasmine Revolution'


AND THE GOOD GUYS ARE...


Boehner promises Obama GOP cover if he takes first step on entitlement reform

Cantor: House to Cut $2B a Week as Senate Dithers

Bachmann to vote against any funding bill that does not defund health-care law

Sen. DeMint Taking the Lead on Education Reform In South Carolina





PLANNED PARENTHOOD/ABORTION SCANDAL


‘Whatever you think of abortion rights, this is not the kind of organization that taxpayers should be funding’

Phill Kline maintains innocence

Cenk Uygur Misleads Viewers On Pregnancy Facts to Bolster Pro-Abortion Bias

Panel OKs federal abortion funding bill




FIGHTING CORRUPTION/TEA PARTY NEWS


Tea Party Hot Topics

Videos a weapon in Wisconsin fight

Media Bias 03-04



Politico Whines About, and Whitewashes, Leftist Thuggery Captured on Video

Media Hypocrisy in Madison

Why Does Mainstream Media Leave George Soros Alone?

Gotta love that delusion - Olbermann: Current TV show will ‘be seen in as many homes as any other’ cable news broadcast

Debunking Annie Leonard on Citizens United

Videos a weapon in Wisconsin fight They say that like its a bad thing but carrying a camera is simple self-defense for a conservative these days. How else are we to get irrefutable proof that it is the violent left which we must fear.

Koch Derangement Syndrome Jumped The Shark Rather Quickly

Media Matters Attempts “Transparency”

Matthews Obamagasm: 'This Isn’t Just Frigging the American Dream - It’s Darned Near Perfect'

Reasons Not to Trust the Times

Public Broadcasting Should Go Private. If these outfits can afford to pay lavish salaries to their heads, they don't need taxpayer help.

Think Progress Fails at Another Hackneyed Hitjob

Ok, Apply Net Neutrality to THIS

Sherrod Brown Wrongly Claims Hitler Opposed Unions

Bad Politician Bad 03-04


President Obama Job Approval

Washington’s Most Corrupt List, 2010 Even the leftist Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington put 10 Dems on their “most corrupt” list, including Maxine Waters and Charlie Rangel

House appropriator: We know how to get around earmark ban

Obama Irrelevant on World Stage

Oh Good God - Students: Score Credit for Re-Electing President Obama!

Opinion: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee and racial harassment laws

Fleeing Lawmakers Are a Disgrace to Democracy

Obama Campaign Cranks up the Cash Register

While Obama seeks new ideas, his bureaucrats stifle them



Lawmakers Stuck in Stopgap Mode While Budget Problems Fester

Democrats Need GOP Voters to Win

Fugitive Dems are making secret visits home

Democratic legislators embracing tactic to gain leverage: Fleeing

Are Democrats America’s De Facto Labor Party? Marty ‘Muscles’ O’Malley Joins the Union Fight



NJ Gov. Christie calls Ill. governor 'a disaster'

General Bad Behavior 3-04



BOMB THREAT at Scott Walker News Conference–Leftist Protester Arrested!

Koch Derangement Syndrome Jumped The Shark Rather Quickly

Sherrod Brown Wrongly Claims Hitler Opposed Unions

Homeland Security Considering Portable, Instant DNA Scanners

Seniority should not make teachers immune to layoffs

Missouri welfare benefits being spent in Hawaii



Prison Rape and the Government

Agent: ATF partly to blame for Mexico violence AND Agent: I was ordered to let U.S. guns into Mexico. ATF agent says "Fast and Furious" program let guns "walk" into hands of Mexican drug cartels with aim of tracking and breaking a big case

Police Investigate California Girl's Claim She Was Forced Into Arranged Marriage in Pakistan

Organizing for America Gets Creative

Protesters Suspended for Calling Out Sick

Who started the restriction of access to the Wisconsin Capitol, which the state court judge has ruled unconstitutional?

Louie Gohmert wants a Department of Justice investigation of Common Cause

The Good News Is 03-04



We, the Unhyphenated Americans Meet my people.

Developing: Hispanic group calls for deployment of US troops on US-Mexico border

Unemployment dips to 8.9 pct., 192K jobs added

A New Strategy for Wisconsin Split out the union provisions and pass them by a simple majority.

More States Looking at Arizona-Style Laws

U.K. Pulls Plug on United Nations Spending, in Move That is Bound to Hearten U.S. Critics

Wrongly arrested photographer Nancy Genovese may get $70 million settlement

Delaware District Votes Against Naming School After Biden

Ohio union bill speeds toward passage

The House Moves to Defend the Law the President Won’t

Triggering School Reform in California. Parents push for their legal rights to better schools, but the education establishment pushes back.

Big Union/Leftie Groups 03-04



BOMB THREAT at Scott Walker News Conference–Leftist Protester Arrested!

Your Union Dues at work - Union bosses make hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, new report shows

Union Chiefs Pull Six-Figure Salaries

Ohio union bill speeds toward passage

Public disgrace

Wisconsin lawmaker tackled as he tries to enter Capitol after hours

Wisconsin Capitol Protests End With a Whimper After Judge Rules on Access Restrictions

American Brownshirts Union thugs unleash violence.

L.A. Police Union Urges Members to ‘Stand in Solidarity’ with SEIU and MoveOn.Org. LAPD cops were asked to pick up picket signs and march alongside a bunch of leftist kooks and government bureaucrats to show encouragement to Wisconsin’s public sector workers.

Public Unions Get Too 'Friendly'



The Loan Arranger
Deadbeat Union's $90 Million Debt from 21 May 2010. Interesting.

In 2007, the SEIU owed Bank of America nearly $95 Million.

By the end of 2008, SEIU owed more than $156 Million in total outstanding liabilities. Only six years prior, its liabilities were $8 Million. And we're not even addressing their debts to other banks, like $15 Million with Amalgamated Bank.

No wonder this is do or die for the public sector unions. It is another f*n economic bubble. I guess we can add "public sector union union bubble" to its corollary "the lower education bubble".

No wonder the lefties have been on about "sustainable" for years. Nothing they have been doing is sustainable.

Think about what it means for the unions if they can no longer service their debt or get shares of the company handed to them to collateralize their debt? Kaput. That's what

Leaving Millions in Damage, Wis. Protesters Depart Capitol

Republican congressmen demand documentation from NLRB on effects of proposed $50 million cut

A New Strategy for Wisconsin Split out the union provisions and pass them by a simple majority.

Madison Mayor Colluded with Unions

Are Democrats America’s De Facto Labor Party? Marty ‘Muscles’ O’Malley Joins the Union Fight

Glorious and Free
A reader in L.A. makes a good point about all the film personalities who hailed their union crews at the Oscars: “Maybe they could stop by Wisconsin to lend their support on their way to Canada — where they go to make movies free of California union rules and California taxes.”


Is There A Union For Sore Losers?

A Connecticut town must provide their union workers free coffee and milk, according to a ruling from the State Board of Labor Relations.

Ohio shows the way in a pivotal fight on behalf of taxpayers.

Videos a weapon in Wisconsin fight

Organizing for America Gets Creative

In Economic Woes 03-04



Gallup: Unemployment Rate Really at 10.3 Percent

Room to cut. New report illustrates wasteful, overlapping programs, including rules on vehicle fuels and highway safety

A nation of indentured servants

The New Underclass and Barack Obama

Obama’s helping hand hoodwinks homeowners. Government mortgage assistance can be worse than nothing

Why we need a balanced-budget amendment

The latest jobs report is good news, even if the overall jobs environment is still pretty bad.

Bill Gates On States' Accounting: 'The Guys At Enron Never Would Have Done This'

Employment Picture Makes Things Cloudy for Investors



The Fair Tax idea is worthy of debate

Guess Who Profits from Inflation?

Utah House Passes Bill Recognizing Gold, Silver as Legal Tender

Dollar's Global Fall Will Be 'Disastrous’ for US Living Standard

Tax Competition Is a Powerful Mechanism to Restrain the Greed of the Political Class


Economists: State, local pension funds understate shortfall by $1.5 trillion or more

Setting the Record Straight

Lawmakers Stuck in Stopgap Mode While Budget Problems Fester

Greenspan Says Government ‘Activism’ Hampering U.S. Recovery



Oil settles at highest level since Sept. 2008

Uncloudy day on the budget front
If he had a sense of shame, Geithner would have to have been embarrassed. As it is, one suspects that he is an easy tool, deferential, glad to be of use -- J. Alfred Prufrock landed improbably in the high office of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States.


Calls for new VAT tax prove unpopular with both Dems, GOP

Republican congressmen demand documentation from NLRB on effects of proposed $50 million cut

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Daily Round-Up 03-03



Eric Holder's People The attorney general confirms suspicions of racial bias at the Justice Department.


THE GOOD NEWS IS...


House Passes 1099 Repeal

Americans Maintain Broad Support for Israel

Wisconsin and Government Unions – Let the Voters Decide

Behind Iraq's protests, a call for better democracy

Ohio Senate Passes Bill Limiting Collective Bargaining From what I understand it is even more restrictive than the Wisconsin bill.

Wisconsin Senate Does Not Need a 3/5ths Quorum to Pass Much of the Budget Bill

Six Steps to Reining in the Administrative State



GENERAL BAD BEHAVIOR


Congress Questions SEC Chief’s Involvement in New Madoff Scandal. SEC Chairwoman Mary Schapiro's general counsel personally profited from Bernard Madoff, which Schapiro knew about. Today, Rep. Darrell Issa and Rep. Charles Grassley asked her for answers.

CREW Provides SEC New Information About Short Sellers' Efforts to Shape Education Regulations.

Education Department ‘tipping hedge funds’ on for-profit colleges

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum. Libya's tenure on the U.N. Human Rights Council is just the latest example of how the international system has been hijacked by the world's most repressive regimes.

Bringing a Bean Bag to a Gunfight

Another reason for disallowing public workers from forming unions - Lawyer for Ohio Police Union Tells Republican State Senator: ‘Funny Thing About Cops, They Hold Grudges’



Collective Bargaining Is Not A Right

European Union Gives Millions to Anti-Death Penalty Groups in America

What a shame. My mom went to Pratt. Conservative Artist Boxed Out at Pratt. Best line: "Art that preaches to a wholly agreeing public is little more than propaganda."



The Mead List: World’s Top Ten Gaddafi Toads

Wis. Capitol Security Tab Nears $5 Mil as Unruly Mobs Persist



AND THE GOOD GUYS ARE...


Republican union-busting advances in Ohio

Immigration's taskmaster

How to save money by expanding school choice

Cuomo Seeks Speedy Change in Teacher Evaluations

For superior teachers, reward excellence


BAD POLITICIAN BAD

President Obama Job Approval

Over Half of Voters Dislike Obama’s Policies

Congressional bosses from Hell: Sheila Jackson Lee

Judicial Watch goes after Elena Kagan’s potential conflict of interest over Obamacare



Obama’s “Start-Up America” Initiative: Stalling Entrepreneurs

Keep Moving, There’s Still Nothing to See Here



Libyan Rebel Fighter Begs For Help From GEORGE BUSH

Small Business Goes to Indianapolis in Search of their Representatives




IN ECONOMIC WOES


Gallup Finds U.S. Unemployment Hitting 10.3% in February

Girls Beat Up Senator, Master of Universe

How Obama Is Making Gas Prices Higher

Announced U.S. Job Cuts Rose 20% From Year Ago, Challenger Says

Michael Moore vs. Abraham Lincoln

Goldman's Model Evokes Blood-Sucking Leeches



New Video Explains that Tax Competition Is a Powerful Mechanism to Restrain the Greed of the Political Class

Can you imagine paying a voluntary gas tax? Some already do

Debt, the Economy & Government 'Investments'

Small Business Goes to Indianapolis in Search of their Representatives

Layoffs At Pre-Recession Level; Job Openings Down 30%

Raising the Debt Limit: It Just Makes Sense. Not.


Greenspan Says Surge in Government `Activism' Is Hampering U.S. Recovery

GAO Report Reveals Not Just Mere Duplication, But Unbridled Idiocy

MicroFinance and Donald Rumsfeld.

Why a top CEO rejects “pro-business” Obama



OBAMACARE


Judicial Watch goes after Elena Kagan’s potential conflict of interest over Obamacare

House Passes 1099 Repeal

Judge Vinson to Obama: Speed up the Appeal or Stop Implementing Obamacare

Florida Judge: Obama Administration Has Seven Days

My Answers to Questions Posed by Senators Durbin and Sessions



States Should Innovate, Not Imitate

The Next Stage of the Health-Care Debate

Waiver Goodbye to Obama

Obama's Health Waiver Gambit The White House offers the mirage of state flexibility.

Vinson stays ruling on ObamaCare – but just for seven days. And if I understand this analysis correctly, Vinson hands the Obama's Administration its butt for asking for the "clarification" in the first place.

Yet Another New Obamacare Bureaucracy

Don’t Want ObamaCare? That Means Obama Can Force You to Have It. The tortured logic of Judge Kessler

GAO report: Nearly 10% of Medicare payments are fraudulent or improper

A Cruel FDA Rollercoaster Ride for Women Taking Avastin

Wisconsin AG Praises Vinson’s Ruling

The Language of Health Care Rationing

Internists Remind Physicians About Universal Ethical Principles

GAO: Medicare losing $48 billion



JUNK SCIENCE


Bachmann: Don't tread on my light bulbs

Lawmakers introduce bills to block EPA’s “Backdoor Cap-and-Trade”

Senators spar during hearing over alleged 1970s global cooling consensus Senator Inhofe 1, that tool Boxer 0

3 Dems join GOP fight to block EPA climate rules

Can you imagine paying a voluntary gas tax? Some already do





MEDIA BIAS


Mainstream Media Props Up Planned Parenthood

When Pundits Run for President Politicians can get media exposure 24/7. So why should Fox News have to suspend Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum?

House leadership questions industry for taking it lying down on net neutrality

Longhorns 17, Badgers 1

Whitewashing Wisconsin's Protests



Think Progress? Think Ignorance

Journalists and Bad Judgment

The Politico- N.Y. Times food fight




BIG UNION/LEFTIE GROUPS


Compassion: NJ Union Goons Strand Disabled Seniors and Dialysis Patients to Attend Rally

A Major Case Could Reverse the Decline of Private-Sector Unionization

WI Elementary School Teacher Exposes Children To His Political Hatred

It's time to end rigged system



Union Bosses Order Off-Duty Firefighters to March Today at Union Rally

The stakes in Wisconsin are higher than they look.

Wisconsin Officials Rush to Walker-Proof Their Benefits

To Surly, With Love: Are Teachers Overpaid?


Unions are "busting" taxpayers

Unions vs Unions

Government Workers and the New Reality



Taxpayer Funded, Union-Run NLRB Using Google to Advertise ‘How to Start a Union’

Largest unions pay leaders well, give extensively to Democrats





PLANNED PARENTHOOD/ABORTION SCANDAL


The No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act

Planned Parenthood blitzes Senate

Planned Parenthood: A culture of sexploitation Group takes federal money while ignoring laws against exploitation of minors

Race and Abortion: A Random Observation
Random observation: Setting aside for a moment the standard arguments (and the merits thereof) in the pro-choice/pro-life debate, a fact remains: In black neighborhoods, liberal-leaning groups advertise and facilitate a procedure that results in the birth of fewer black babies; conservative groups advertise and facilitate a procedure that results in the birth of more black babies.




FIGHTING CORRUPTION/TEA PARTY NEWS


Obama and the Tea Party—the race card keeps on turning

The Tea Party and American Foreign Policy

Internists Remind Physicians About Universal Ethical Principles

Populism and the Partisan Mind

Gas Prices Today!

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Most Polluted State?

According to this Forbes article titled, America's Most Toxic Cities, 2011, California (the ever-so-environmentally-correct state) has four (4) of the top ten dirtiest cities in the country.

As the great Instapundit likes to say, I'll start treating it like a crisis when they start acting like its one.

How Many Zeros In A Billion

Below was an email I received this morning"

How many zeros in a billion? (Or in Congress for that Matter)

he next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of it's releases.

A.
A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

B.
A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

C.
A billion hours ago our ancestors were
Living in the Stone Age.

D.
A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.

E.
A billion dollars ago was only
8 hours and 20 minutes,
At the rate our government
Is spending it.

While this thought is still fresh in our brain...
let's take a look at New Orleans ...
It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division.

Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D) is presently asking Congress for 250 BILLION DOLLARS to rebuild New Orleans . Interesting number....
What does it mean?

A.
Well .. If you are one of the 484,674 residents of New Orleans
(every man, woman, and child)
You each get $516,528.

B.
Or... If you have one of the 188,251 homes in
New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787.

C.
Or... If you are a family of four...
Your family gets $2,066,012.

Washington, D.C. HELLO!
Are all your calculators broken??

Building Permit Tax
CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax (Fed)
Federal Unemployment Tax (FU TA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Tax
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service charge taxes
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax (Truckers)
Sales Taxes
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Tax
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
(And to think, we left British Rule to avoid so many taxes)

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago.....
And our nation was the most prosperous in the world.

We had absolutely no national debt...
We had the largest middle class in the world.....
And Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What happened? Can you spell:

'POLITICIANS!'

And I still have to Press '1' For English.

What the hell happened?????

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Daily Round-Up 03-01



Two questions that aren’t being asked about Wisconsin


THE GOOD NEWS IS...

Space Tourism May Mean One Giant Leap for Researchers

Interior Secretary Salazar cracks under pressure and begins issuing Gulf of Mexico drilling permits

It’s On: House GOP vs. the FCC

A New Partnership with Governors

Fleebaggers Caving?

Bill Would Make Some Airport Screening Sexual Assault

Bernanke: GOP Cuts Won’t Harm Growth

Enterprise, Not Greed, Creates A Better World

Wisconsin GOP Senate fights dirty. Which they should.

The Marriage Debate in Maryland

Oklahoma House Panel Passes Illegal Immigrant Bill

SCOTUS: Corporations Not People (at least with respect to one FOIA provision)

What Can You Do To Take Back Education?

Senate Dems Agree to GOP Bill to Cut Spending, Possibly Avoiding Shutdown



GENERAL BAD BEHAVIOR


And this my friend is why I whole-heartedly support completely defunding our UN support - UN set to adopt report praising Libya's record

How 'Last in, first out' harms our kids

Missourians Fight ‘Ozarks National Heritage Area’ Plan

What is a TSA Blog Team?

The Arab World's Lingering Hatred of Jews

Accidental Death Becomes Suicide When Insurers Dodge Paying Life Benefits

Missing senators rely heavily on union campaign dollars

House Republican fires aide over leaked e-mails

The Vanity of the Intellectual. Intellectuals have a tendency to become whores.

Another Reason To Outlaw Public-Employee Unions

Billions in Bloat Uncovered in Beltway

US Consulting Group Working For Libya Did Not Register As Foreign Agent

Navy to name warship for Murtha despite protests

Expose the Ruse, or Lose




PLANNED PARENTHOOD/ABORTION SCANDAL


Enough! 64 Percent of New Yorkers Say a 41 Percent Abortion Rate Is Too High

WaPo Misleads In Planned Parenthood, Live Action Debate

New York Deserves Better

And The Good Guys Are.... 03-01



In Clarence Thomas's speech, he said such fiercely ideological attacks could erode the ability of Americans to protect their freedoms.

Obama Gets a Smackdown from Gov. Walker
Walker's office issued this statement:

"I'm sure the President knows that most federal employees do not have collective bargaining for wages and benefits while our plan allows it for base pay. And I'm sure the President knows that the average federal worker pays twice as much for health insurance as what we are asking for in Wisconsin. At least I would hope he knows these facts.

"Furthermore, I'm sure the President knows that we have repeatedly praised the more than 300,000 government workers who come to work every day in Wisconsin.

"I'm sure that President Obama simply misunderstands the issues in Wisconsin, and isn't acting like the union bosses in saying one thing and doing another."

Why Koch Industries is speaking out

Why Koch Industries Is Speaking Out Crony capitalism and bloated government prevent entrepreneurs from producing the products and services that make people's lives better.

Christie at Hoover

GOP governors undermine Obama's agenda in states

Bad Politician Bad 03-01


President Obama Job Approval

We are all your "people" because we are all Americans and your abject refusal to protect everyone equally under the law is despicable. Eric Holder: Black Panther case focus demeans 'my people'

CREW pushes SEC to investigate short-seller, Obama administration partnership on education regs

Zogby Poll: Majority Wants Obama to Recast Plans to GOP Agenda

Obama’s Job-Killing Economy: The Continuing Saga

Obama, DOMA, and Constitutional Responsibility

Obama administration joins critics of U.S. nonprofit group that oversees Internet

Report: Memo Outlines Police Game for Writing Tickets

Obama officials praise those who support them

Why nobody went to jail. The truth of the 2008 collapse

Obama, DOMA, and Constitutional Responsibility

White House meets lobbyists off campus

Both Parties Fear Touching Social Security

“This is no longer democracy,” but “anarchy” – “utterly illegitimate”

The Democrats’ campaign finance reform hypocrisy

Edwards Lies Low, but That Won’t Last

Obama's economy heads further south

Expose the Ruse, or Lose

Labor secretary steps out in Wisconsin union fight

Two questions that aren’t being asked about Wisconsin

Forbes: Are Amazon.com’s Days of Tax-Free Selling Numbered?

They're playing games, literally, in the Justice Department