The Media is Bad for the Economy

Here is a lesson to be learned by local and state officials:  even if you pass a cell phone driving ban, after a while people will start to ignore it.

 

Along with the New Year came some new snowfall records and sea ice at the same level as in 1979.

 

If Roland Burris shows up to claim "his" Senate seat, Democrats will use force, if necessary, to keep him off the Senate floor.  We also have now a solid verdict:  the signature of the Secretary of State of Illinois is necessary for Burris to be formally appointed, which is why Burris is suing Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White for his signature.

 

Seventy seven percent of Americans blame the mainstream, uppity, navel-gazing media for making the economy worse.

 

Now the steel industry is looking for a bailout, in the form of the massive new federal "stimulus" package.  The "stimulus" will be decided on by a bunch of Democrats on a committee.  It'll be nothing but a bunch of pork, and G-RAMP could be one of the pet projects that would get funded by the Obama "stimulus" package.

 

The Los Angeles Times points out that moderate (liberal) Republicans in the Senate will be in demand.

 

A 14-year-old who would have been a suicide bomber said he was tricked by the radical madrassa that trained him in Islam and told him that he had to be a suicide bomber.  Have you ever noticed that the people telling others to kill themselves never do it themselves?  Well Israel managed to kill one of those pieces of scum yesterday.

 

The United States gave 3,400 visas to immigrants from state sponsors of terror last year.  So now we might be letting terrorists come to the United States legally now?  Wonderful.

 

Happy New Year!  Georgia gas taxes dropped by four cents yesterday.  Enjoy it while you can, because a federal commission wants to raise the federal gas tax.