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A couple of links on the subjects we talked about on the show: Cap and Tax: Your Green House, Cont’d Jimmie Bise at the American Issues Project has a great follow-up on the cap-and-trade bill’s onerous home-retrofit mandates, which Kevin Williamson and I wrote about last week. Get this: Pay close attention to (iii), (iv), …
Small businesses, many of which are just squeking by as it is, are going to *LOVE* this one: Higher minimum wage coming soon Federal wage floor will rise to $7.25 an hour on July 24. Hike will be felt in 29 states. Can the job market handle it? NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The federal …
Yeah, another Federal mandate that will immediately improve the job picture Read More »
Over at Betsy’s Page: The teachers union messing up a good thing We’ve seen example after example of charter schools that have succeeded partly by requiring longer work weeks for the students. They come to school earlier and leave later and often have Saturday school. Such a regime requires, of course, teachers to work longer …
You’ve seen nothing yet! All in the cause of "covering the uninsured" – YOU will get to play by some health insurance policy wonk’s need to express himself. (H/T: You REALLY don’t think that Congress is going to make themselves submit to this horror story, do you (trust me, it will get worse! The only …
And you think navigating your health insurance is hard now? Read More »
As politically active bloggers, both Doug and I get lots of emails (I’m betting he more than I – he’s better at the "human networking" schtick – I make friendly better with the computer ones I guess. Anywho, we got this from a friend in DC: Skip and Doug- Thought y’all might find the …
And you thought they wanted to protect the environment for the polar bears and the snail darters, eh? Not only do they want to make our energy (gas, oil, coal, electric) MUCH more expensive all for the sake of about a 0.18 degree less warming over the next 100 years, have I got ANOTHER …
Did you know that Waxman/Markey “Cap N Tax” is also a massive new WELFARE bill? Read More »
$787 Billion and they didn’t even read the bill (re: The Stimulus bill, aka Porkulus). The grand stated mission was that we had to do it now and do it quick and get it going or we are going to have massive unemployment… (H/T: From my position….on the way!) Well, doesn’t look like THAT’S working …
So, how’s that Obama Jobs plan working out fer ya? Read More »
Like many States, TEA Party organizations are springing up all over. Heck, if you’ve ever seen the movie Network, you know that the best line of the movie (character Howard Beale played by the late Peter Finch) was: I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore! Certainly, Doug and I, as …
Interested in helping out with a TEA Party in central NH? Read More »
Filed under the "Proper Role of Government", which as regular readers know, this is not! I received, out of the blue, an email from a person who works on the inside of a GM dealership who wishes to get their side of the story which I am publishing below (emphasis mine). I called her to …
More on the GM / Chrysler bailout debacle….from someone affected by it. Read More »
From my last post concerning the Comptroller of an auto dealership and what the Obama Administration is doing to the America via the GM and Chrysler bailouts: The cost to purchase a new or pre-owned vehicle is going to increase due to the lack of competition between dealerships which drive prices down and keeps everyone …
Cognitive dissonance in the Obama Administration’s actions Read More »
