Via Ace of Spades, the labor force participation rate (a much more relevant indicator of the job market than the unemployment rate, which doesn’t count workers who have given up searching for a job) over the past 10 years: I checked BLS data (source of the above) for the past 20 years to see if this was anomalous, and it doesn’t appear so: The only | Read More »
Frankly, there’s not much I can say about this. These are the people who attacked us 11 years ago today, and we clearly have not learned 2 lessons in that time: first, their grievances are bulls*** – nothing more than hastily fabricated excuses to riot. One day it’s an offensive movie, the next day it’s U.S. troops in the Arabian Peninsula. They’re not concerned with | Read More »
No, I’m not advocating violence. I’m just observing the existence of a conflict between 2 completely irreconcilable ideas (and the people who hold them) that’s been growing for the past 100 years in America. On one hand is the simple idea that “by the sweat of your face you will eat bread, till you return to the ground“. Or stated only a bit more pleasantly, | Read More »
I don’t think so. That would be such an attempt at political suicide that Democrat-Media Complex couldn’t possibly spin their way out of it. I think the President’s just trying to put a bit of fear into the hearts of those who rely on Social Security for a significant portion of their income (and as he amusingly admits, bluffing). But the only way that the | Read More »
Promoted from the diaries by Caleb The highlight of my day at CPAC (and I’d guess many other bloggers would share that opinion). Before giving the keynote speech, Rep. Allen West (FL-22) stopped in to talk about diversity within the GOP, the GOProud controversy, the Middle East, libertarianism, the Congressional Black Caucus, motorcycles, defense spending cuts and more. Here’s the video, thanks to FTR Radio:
What a day it is indeed. I don’t mention my own service all that often in the context of politics (I would rather win over others to my views with universal truths than with biographical details), but I’m proud to have been a Marine for 7 years, to have been deployed to Iraq twice, and above all to have served alongside such fine men and | Read More »
This from the Sunshine State News, via Bluegrass Pundit: In one of the most closely watched U.S. House races in the nation, Republican Daniel Webster now holds a 7-point lead over Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson in Central Florida’s 8th Congressional District, according to a new Sunshine State News Poll. Webster, a former state senator, leads the freshman congressman 43-36 in the survey of 559 likely | Read More »
It’s hard to even start naming everything that’s wrong with this situation. From Charles Jacobs at Big Peace: My organization, Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT), just released a video showing 6th graders from Wellesley, MA as they rise from prostrating themselves alongside Muslim men in a prayer to Allah while on a public school field trip to the largest mosque in the Northeast. Teachers | Read More »
This woman has the blood of thousands of aborted babies on her hands. I’ll leave the detailed analysis to others. You can read background here , here and here. The bottom line is this: In 1996, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), a generally pro-abortion organization, shared one of their policy statements with the Clinton administration, which stated that partial-birth abortion was NOT | Read More »
The former veep/perpetual teller of depressing environmental fairy tales seems to have made a Clintonian slip with a masseuse in Oregon in October 2006. HT to The Other McCain, who’s posted on it here, here, and here. The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office confirmed today that a woman who alleged unwanted sexual contact by Al Gore reported it to police in 2006, and the prosecutor’s | Read More »
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