Obama Campaigning For Endangered Democrats

Here is a comparison of the jobs bills that passed in the House and that they are proposing in the Senate.

 

Here's an interesting factoid:  the Latin word "algor" means cold or chilliness.  (H/T AOSHQ)

 

The number two ranking Taliban official was captured, and is talking.  Here's hoping they don't shut him up by Mirandizing him.

 

Thanks for the sound byte, Evan Bayh!

 

President Obama is going on what some are calling a "Save the Senate" tour this week.  I hope he campaigns for every Democrat in every close race everywhere in the country.

 

The White House is revamping their communications strategy, and it includes more "change."

 

Euthanasia may be coming to Canada.  Socialized medicine at work.

 

Those new rules designed to prevent flights from sitting on the tarmac for too long has resulted in flights just being cancelled instead.

 

The TSA forced a four-year-old boy to remove his leg braces to go through security.

 

The parasite class is much worse in Britain than it is here, like this woman who receives over $125,000 a year to live in a five-bedroom mansion.

 

Government unions are worse than private sector unions because the private sector unions don't want their companies to go bankrupt.  The government can't go bankrupt.

 

Forty-three percent of voters say that their local government is better than the state government or the federal government.

 

Taxpayers spent over $400,000,000 paying federal employees to stay home during the snow days last week.  We probably saved a lot more than that by not having the bureaucrats on the job.

 

The snow days also meant that children went hungry by not getting their free or reduced-price school lunch.

 

Here's a surprise:  an audit has found that the preparations for the US Census wasted millions of dollars.

 

The Postal Service is considering dropping Saturday mail delivery service.  Congress, the White House, and the postal workers' union hate the idea.

 

The government school district in Central Falls, Rhode Island fired every teacher because the teacher's union refused to accept a little bit more work.

 

Only a third of voters think that most members of Congress deserve to be re-elected this year, but probably over 90% of members will be re-elected.

 

A ban on oil and natural gas drilling would cut the GDP by $2.36 trillion over the next two decades.

 

The Obama Administration is going to use tax dollars to help build the first new nuclear plants in over 30 years, including one near Savannah.

 

The KKK is planning a rally this weekend in southeast Georgia.  It's best to just ignore them.

 

The Board of Regents has lined up against a bill that will clarify existing rules on where licensed gun carriers are allowed to carry their guns.

 

A new bill would exempt police officers from the state income tax.

 

Local governments would be required to post their budgets online under a bill that passed the state House unanimously this morning.

 

The media's investigation into Southeastern United States Insurance turned up some top Republican representatives and Governor Perdue as having gone on hunting trips with SEUS chief Clark Fain.  Reporter Travis Fain (no relation to Clark) compares his ethical standards to those of state lawmakers.