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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
By Dan
Following the shooting of six faculty members at the University of Alabama, concerned citizen groups are calling for increased monitoring of faculty and teachers groups, as well as far-left extremist groups who support Obama. “These far-left extremists must be monitored–we cannot afford another Amy Bishop,” said Kat Aloghem, spokeswoman for Parents for Logging Obama... »
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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Obama is promising a budget freeze on non-discretionary, non-defense funding. This amounts to a “freeze” on $450 billion out of $3.6 trillion budget. That’s about 12.5%. So Obama is promising to “freeze” spending on 12.5% of the federal budget. (An idea he harshly criticized during the campaign.)
To put that in perspective, most Americans spend... »
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Thursday, December 3, 2009
By Dan
Apologies for the laconic past few weeks. I’ve been getting killed at my day job, and have been dealing with some personal issues as well. But on the issue of Global Warming and the Climategate emails, I cannot remain silent any longer–mostly out of sheer glee.
In case you have missed it a hacker–who shall... »
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
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Obama has promised to deliver healthcare to 45 million Americans, including 15 million illegal aliens, over 30 million Americans, and not “add one single dime to the federal deficit.” This promise hinges on Obama eliminating “fraud, waste and abuse” in Medicare, cutting Medicare advantage, and to a large extent, promising today that some... »
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
By Dan
The statistics are out for Cash for Clunkers, and like any government program, the results are not pretty. The following chart shows the percentage of sales and (presumed) Cash for Clunkers outlays by manufacturer:
Company
Foreign/Domestic
% of Sales
Cash Paid
Toyota
Foreign
19.4%
$558,312,600
GM
Domestic
17.6%
$506,510,400
Ford
Domestic
14.4%
$414,417,600
Honda
Foreign
13.0%
$374,127,000
Nissan
Foreign
8.7%
$250,377,300
Hyundai
Foreign
7.2%
$207,208,800
Chrysler
Domestic
6.6%
$189,941,400
Kia
Foreign
4.3%
$123,749,700
Subaru
Foreign
2.5%
$71,947,500
Mazda
Foreign
2.4%
$69,069,600
Volkswagen
Foreign
2.0%
$57,558,000
Suzuki
Foreign
0.6%
$17,267,400
Mitsubushi
Foreign
0.5%
$14,389,500
MINI
Foreign
0.4%
$11,511,600
Smart
Foreign
0.2%
$5,755,800
Volvo
Domestic
0.1%
$2,877,900
All Other
Neither
0.1%
$2,877,900
Total
Foreign
61.3%
$1,761,274,800
Total
Domestic
38.6%
$1,113,747,300
Although many “Foreign” car manufacturers actually manufacturer their cars in the U.S.,... »
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Saturday, August 22, 2009
By Dan
Today’s Friday afternoon data dump announcement that the ten-year deficit is projected by the Obama administration to be $9 trillion rather than $7 trillion as it had previously said, apparently comes as a surprise to some. Those with more elephantine memories will recall, however, that back in late February and March, a very young... »
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Friday, August 21, 2009
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Scotland, yesterday, released convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, to die in his native country of Libya. Scottish justice minister, Kenny MacAskill, announced that al-Megrahi was being released as he was is terminally ill with prostate cancer and had three months to live.
Compassion comes from the late Latin compassionem from com- “together” and... »
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Sunday, August 9, 2009
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In late April, the President visited Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley Virginia to reassure the agency’s employees. “t is our intention,” Obama said, using the royal we, “to assure those who carried out their duties relying in good faith upon legal advice from the Department of Justice,... »
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
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Democrats in Congress are anxious to add another $2 billion to the fiasco known as Cash for Clunkers. To understand how little $2 billion is to the federal government, as I’ve said before, divide $2 billion by $2.3 trillion and multiply the result by your gross salary (so not much; about the equivalent of... »
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Friday, July 31, 2009
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Democrats just love to thrust themselves in other people’s business. The love to tell people how to run a business and how much profit they should make; what to eat, and how much; what to drive and how far; when to die and how much it should cost. As part of the economic... »
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