May 10, 2010 – 9:30 am
And, like many on the left who refuse to leave their parents basement, they do not want to leave the program The tattoo on Christian Berrios’ right forearm says “Knowledge is Power.” For a high school dropout in a city with shuttered textile plants and 18% unemployment, he needs all the knowledge he can get. […]
May 7, 2010 – 8:10 am
Happy Friday! Here’s an interesting story from yesterday that I just never got around to The great mystery surrounding the historic health care bill is how the corporations that provide coverage for most Americans — coverage they know and prize — will react to the new law’s radically different regime of subsidies, penalties, and taxes. […]
May 6, 2010 – 9:45 am
Another day, another push by Democrats to control something In a move that will stoke a battle over the future of the Internet, the federal government plans to propose regulating broadband lines under decades-old rules designed for traditional phone networks. The decision, by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski, is likely to trigger a vigorous […]
April 27, 2010 – 8:31 am
You do have to give Obama high chutzpah marks for pulling this stunt, though Seeking to show he is serious about reining in soaring budget deficits, President Barack Obama on Tuesday will kick off the work of a panel he created to try to solve the nation’s fiscal woes. Obama has given the independent, 18-member […]
April 20, 2010 – 9:30 am
Aren’t you thrilled that the Government is just looking out for your best interests, since you are obviously to incompetent to make your own decisions? FDA takes aim at salt content in processed food The Food and Drug Administration is planning an unprecedented effort to gradually reduce the salt consumed each day by Americans, saying […]
April 18, 2010 – 8:46 am
Apparently, the Times is interested in dropping a few bombshells this weekend. First you have the “Gates Says U.S. Lacks Strategy to Curb Iran’s Nuclear Drive,” which others have covered, and then there is this, which basically says that the provisions of ObamaCare are doomed to failure When her small executive search firm in New […]
March 31, 2010 – 9:52 am
Probably Bush’s fault because he didn’t reform student loans and put the federal government in charge or something like that Powerhouse student loan provider Sallie Mae says layoffs are imminent as a result of President Obama’s new student loan overhaul. “This legislation will force Sallie Mae to reduce our 8,600-person workforce by 2,500,” Conwey Casillas, […]
March 25, 2010 – 7:58 am
This is almost like some sort of pre-cognition movie A flood of lawsuits from states seeking to block the health care law President Obama signed this week raises sharp questions about the power of the federal government to impose mandates on its citizens, but legal scholars disagree about how the cases will be decided if […]
March 21, 2010 – 8:13 am
Today is the day they are finally going to put the economy and jobs as priority #1. Just kidding, of course. Though these ObamaCare twits actually believe that this will generate large amounts of jobs. To be fair, it will. Government jobs. Jobs for bureaucrats. Jobs for IRS agents, who are expected to increase the […]
March 17, 2010 – 9:30 am
Apparently, Queen Nancy was nipping at the green beer a day early Democrats are considering using a complicated process to avoid a direct vote on the Senate-passed bill, which is unpopular with House Democrats. Instead, they would declare the Senate bill passed once the House votes to approve changes it wants. Republicans said the strategy […]
