Archive for June, 2009

2009 19 Jun

The Senate and House have passed, and Obama is expected to sign, a $1 billion “program” to help stimulate car sales.  The “program” will offer $4500 vouchers to trade in old, less efficient, cars for newer, more efficient, ones.  This is supposed to help the poor, the economy and the environment.  As always, the government [...]

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Published in Economy
2009 18 Jun

The current financial crisis and bankruptcy for GM is beginning to give many people a fresh look at how business is done.  For GM, we are seeing the important role the UAW has played in its failure.  They have driven the auto giant into the ground and to the brink of extinction.
Today, in the Detroit [...]

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Published in Economy
2009 17 Jun

Today, Obama is finally going to bow the gay extremists he has been shunning.  He is going to announce, according to an AP source to both Fox News and Townhall.com, that he is granting government benefits to same-sex partners of federal workers.  Nevermind that a majority of Americans believe this lifestyle is a choice and [...]

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2009 5 Jun

As the “Hate Crime” bill makes its way through the Senate, having already passed the House, Christians and Conservatives have complained that the bill will be used to silence speech not in agreement with the Left’s “progressive” ideas.  We have stated our concern that it will be used to possibly jail those who speak their [...]

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2009 4 Jun

Bob at Black & Right found an interesting tidbit this evening.  On January 6, 2009, Rep. Serrano (D-NY) submitted H.J. Res. 5, an amendment to the Constitution to repeal the 22nd Amendment.  That amemdment is the one put in place after the last “Savior” the Democrats had left office.  It was put in place to [...]

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Published in Congress, President
2009 4 Jun

At the beginning of this week, GM filed for bankruptcy. They announced they would be slashing about 20,000 jobs. That doesn’t count the jobs that will be lost in the related job sector either.
Today, Wal-Mart has announced that it is planning to open new stores and remodel older ones.  This is expected to [...]

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Published in Economy
2009 3 Jun

This is a very funny video.  Surely Obama, Pelosi and Reid had to expect things like this.  And I’m sure they’ll only increase as time goes on.

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Published in National Politics
2009 1 Jun

In 2003, President Bush nominated Miguel Estrada to an appeals court.  Immediately, Democrats threatened to fillibuster his appointment.  They did this and after a long period, he withdrew his name.  The GOP was to weak then to get him nominated, and they will now be too weak to stop Judge Sotomayor from being appointed to [...]

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Published in Courts
2009 1 Jun

Last week, Newsweek ran an article on the growth of homeschooling in America.  In the article, they ran several statistics and numbers, but little understanding as to the numbers.  They seemed baffled as to why homeschooling is on the rise.  As a homeschooling family, maybe I can shed some light on the subject for them.

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Published in Homeschooling