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May 5, 2010

Another factoid about who is doing well during this Recession

From RedState:    Compensation A. State and Local B. Private Sector Ratio A/B Total Compensation $39.66 $27.42 1.45 Wages and salaries $26.01 $19.39 1.34 Benefits $13.65 $8.02 1.7 Paid Leave $3.27 $1.85 1.77 Supplemental Pay $0.34 $0.83 0.41 Health insurance $4.34 $1.99 2.18 Defined benefit pension $2.85 $0.41 6.95 Defined contribution pension $0.31 $0.53 0.58 …

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Well, the Obama apologists are going to have a cow over this bit of news

Already, the defenders of the Obamessiah are getting their gear in gear, but this isn’t going to cheer the cockles of their Progressive / Socialist beating hearts: WASHINGTON – Aaron Klein’s exposé of Barack Obama’s notorious connections with extremists and America-haters has skyrocketed to No. 1 on the non-fiction list at Amazon.com and is now …

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Give It Back

From this morning’s Union Leader; the Legislature is looking at an insurance premium tax change.  Apparently someone was granted decreases in exchange for a promise of creating more jobs.  Jobs were not created to their satisfaction so the elected officials see no reason to continue to support the reduced taxation.   Neal Kurk (R-Weare) was quoted …

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Notable Quote – Thomas Jefferson

And finally, what about the dangerous, wild-eyed, hateful and threatening allusions to violence? What about that un-American, unheard of, unprecedented repudiation of the genteel nature of politics, as represented by the calm and rational rhetoric that came from the left during the Bush years? What did the founders have to say about defending freedom, by …

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Another take from Arizona new immigration law – guest post by AZ State Senator Sylvia Allen I’m Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen. I want to explain SB 1070 which I voted for and was just signed by Governor Jan Brewer.Rancher Rob Krantz was murdered by the drug cartel on his ranch a month ago. I …

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