Economy Loses Jobs Again

The economy lost jobs last month, although the unemployment rate held steady at 10%.  If a Republican was in office, the media would be reporting a 17.3% rate.

 

John McCain now says that Obama is on "an extreme left-wing crusade to bankrupt America."  Where was this when he was running for President?

 

Texas Governor Rick Perry wants to see a balanced budget amendment to the United States Constitution.

 

Apparently prisoners at Guantanamo Bay want to stay there.

 

It could cost $216 million for the first year for the trials of Islamist terrorists in New York.

 

Here is the report issued by the White House about the Captain Underpants bombing.  Obama was forced yesterday to order intelligence agencies to follow up on all leads, which was done under the Bush administration.  In hindsight, the Fort Hood shooting was like a dress rehearsal for the failures that led to the Captain Underpants attempt and White House national security advisor James Jones said that this is two strikes so far.  White House Homeland Security Adviser John Brennan and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano were both surprised by the attempted attack, and looked really stupid explaining their stupid surprise.  Napolitano should be out of a job soon, but instead she's going to travel to Spain and help deploy a bunch of full body scanners that would not have stopped Captain Underpants anyway, but at least it can measure your penis!

 

The Cato Institute's Robert Levy makes the case for separating marriage and state.

 

In just four working days, the Federal Register is already over 1,000 pages long.

 

Having trouble with your taxes?  The IRS is going to try to answer 71% of the calls made by taxpayers seeking customer service.

 

Apparently companies are trying to use the Obamas as marketing tools.  If somebody was doing this with me I'd put an end to it.

 

British firefighters were called after a man got his penis caught in a steel pipe.

 

A federal judge has granted a request by Georgia, Florida, and Alabama to keep water rights negotiations secret.

 

A bill to allow Georgia concealed carry permit holders to carry more broadly will be headed towards a House subcommittee after a hearing yesterday.

 

Campaign finance disclosures are due.  Here are the Republicans' disclosures, and here are the Democrats'.

 

Presumptive House Speaker David Ralston seems to be backpedaling on the ethics issues.