"Had that portion of the decline in the labor force participation rate since 2007 that is attributable to neither the aging of the baby boomers nor the downturn in the business cycle on the basis of the experience in previous downturns not occurred, the unemployment rate in the fourth quarter of 2011 would have...
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Blatant Hypocrite: Brian Williams Finger Scolding George W. Bush
The History Of Presidents And Other People’s Fingers: Brian Williams Once Pointed At George W. Bush | Mediaite.
Canada: Islamic parents found guilty in “honor” killing three daughters and first wife
… Shafia’s first wife wrote in a diary that her husband beat her and “made life a torture,” while his second wife called her a servant. The prosecution presented wire taps and cell phone records from the Shafia family in court to support their honor killing theory. The wiretaps, which capture Shafia spewing vitriol...
Court: ‘Tolerance is a two-way street’
… “Ward was willing to work with all clients and to respect the school’s affirmation directives in doing so. That is why she asked to refer gay and lesbian clients (and some heterosexual clients) if the conversation required her to affirm their sexual practices. What more could the rule require? Surely, for example, the...
Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic About Global Warming – WSJ.com
… This is not the way science is supposed to work, but we have seen it before—for example, in the frightening period when Trofim Lysenko hijacked biology in the Soviet Union. Soviet biologists who revealed that they believed in genes, which Lysenko maintained were a bourgeois fiction, were fired from their jobs. Many were...
Channeling David Axelrod | Karl Rove
Excellent as always Karl. Channeling David Axelrod | Karl Rove.
Soros May Benefit From White House’s Natural Gas Proposal
Soros May Benefit From White House’s Natural Gas Proposal.
Gingrich’s Revisionist History with Reagan
… The best examples come from a famous floor statement Gingrich made on March 21, 1986. This was right in the middle of the fight over funding for the Nicaraguan contras; the money had been cut off by Congress in 1985, though Reagan got $100 million for this cause in 1986. Here is Gingrich:...
Obama’s Buffett will profit from Keystone cancellation
Warren Buffett, whom President Obama likes to cite as a fair-minded billionaire while arguing for higher taxes on the wealthy, stands to benefit from the president’s decision to reject the Keystone XL oil pipeline permit. Mr. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. owns Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC, which is among the railroads that would transport...
William Jefferson Gingrich – The New York Sun
… Newt and Bill, as 1960s generation self-promoters, share the same duplicity, ostentatious braininess, a propensity for endless scrapes with propriety and the law. They are tireless hustlers. Now Newt is hustling my fellow conservatives in this election. The last time around he successfully hustled conservatives in the House of Representatives and then the...
