From Another Age The following statements, perceived to be true by most common sense voters, are alien concepts to most governments. Does getting elected to office corrupt the common sense mind or are we simply voting for those who lack common sense to begin with??? You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the […]
Archives for July 2010
Tea Party Goes Overboard – Compares Obama To Hitler And Lenin
July 14, 2010 Leave a Comment
Des Moines, Iowa is now the site of a super controversial billboard erected by a local Iowa tea party. The tea party apparently saw disturbing similarities between “National Socialism (Hitler), Marxist Socialism (Lenin) and Democratic Socialism” (Obama). The tea party decided to make its point in a graphic and public manner, which immediately drew strong […]
White House Claims $787 Billion Stimulus “Created” 3 Million Jobs – At A Cost Of $262,333 Per Job
July 14, 2010 Leave a Comment
The White House Council of Economic Advisers today proudly praised the $787 billion stimulus program, claiming that it had created or saved 2.5 to 3.6 million jobs. Without bothering to debate how the Council arrived at its estimate of jobs saved or created, lets take the average of their estimated jobs (3.05 million) and divide […]
Obama’s Approval Rating Plunges – Why Do 40% Of Voters Still Support Him?
July 14, 2010 3 Comments
A new poll released by the Washington Post-ABC News shows that support for the president has plunged to a new all time low. A staggering 60% of voters say that they “lack faith in the president to make the right decisions for the country, and a clear majority once again disapproves of how he is […]
US Postal Service Endangers Its Own Survival With Higher Postal Rates
July 6, 2010 Leave a Comment
United State Postal Service Goes Postal On Rate Increases Well, here they go again – another 2 cent or 4.5% increase in the cost of a first class stamp. The recent history of postal rate increases by the USPS has been on a sharp upward trajectory (courtesy: Wikipedia.org.) History of United States domestic first class […]
As Obama Administration Obstructs Cleanup Of Gulf Oil Disaster, Some See Dark Motives
July 2, 2010 Leave a Comment
Government Thwarts Oil Cleanup – Incompetence or Calculated Political Decision? It has been over two months since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico on April 22, 2010. Estimates of the amount of crude oil gushing into the Gulf range from 60,000 to 100,000 barrels a day causing an […]
The Declaration Of Independence – An Expression Of The American Mind
July 2, 2010 1 Comment
Thomas Jefferson, primary writer of the Declaration Of Independence, explains why the American Colonies viewed separation from England was inevitable: Believe me, dear Sir: there is not in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But, by the God that made me, I will cease […]