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From MarketWatch today: WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Private-sector firms in the U.S. eliminated 20,000 jobs in February, the 25th decline in a row, according to the ADP employment report released Wednesday. It was the fewest jobs lost since 22,000 jobs were added in January 2008. In January 2010, a revised 60,000 jobs were lost, compared with the 22,000 originally reported, ADP said. Month after month after month after month I’ve been blogging the unemployment numbers.  Today not only... Read More→

There’s been a lot of commotion in the news media lately about President Obama’s so-called bipartisan healthcare summit, and the stunningly imperious suggestion that Congress use the reconciliation process to avoid Republican filibuster.  This evidently urgent healthcare “reform” now has a public approval rating of 44%, and a disapproval rating of 52%.   But as far as summits go, it was unremarkable.  Obama the ideologue would never compromise meaningfully with Republicans.  Republicans,... Read More→

Tired of acrimony in politics?  Would you like a government that functions without constant partisan attack; government where good ideas are not derailed by special interests, where elected officials seem out of touch with the citizens?  Judging by Congressional approval ratings, most Americans are more than fed up. Horrendous numbers for Congress are nothing new.  As far back as Real Clear Politics’ polling goes, Congress has a negative spread.  The transition from Republican to Democrat... Read More→

While the Obama administration is attempting to outlaw scarcity, tamp down the alleged rising ocean levels, and convince loathsome murderous terrorists that it’s a big misunderstanding… Can he at least have the decency to ban winter with the stroke of his mighty pen, and help out the eastern seaboard?  Read More →

The mainstream media do not know what to make of the “Tea Partiers.”  Occasionally the participants are given a modicum of respectability, but overwhelmingly they are casually (and caustically) dismissed as merely “White” and “Angry;” the not-so subtle implication being that they’re unsophisticated racists looking for a reason to “riot” against a half-black president.  Whereas before the media seemed to think the movement was destined to fizzle... Read More→

Next time you feel compelled to speak out for better funding of state educational institutions, remember that when conducting addition in Gov’t Mathematics, 1+1 = 0.5 From Fox Business: The U.S. economy lost 20,000 jobs in the month of January, the Labor Department said Friday, but the nation’s unemployment rate fell to 9.7%. Stock futures reacted positively to the news. The drop in the unemployment rate was surprising — economists were looking for an unemployment rate of 10.1% —... Read More→

President Obama pledged to double American exports over the next 5 years in his SOTU address last week.  Some details are emerging on this plan: From Marketwatch: The commerce secretary said the White House would not focus on one sector at the expense of others. Doubling exports is “an aggregate goal,” he said. “We’re not focusing on any one particular area. There is a great demand for high quality products and services around the world and we just need to really put a lot... Read More→

On Wednesday evening, our President, Barack Hussein Obama, delivered his first “State of the Union” address.  As the president reminded us with his opening lines, this duty of the presidency originates from the Constitution itself.  Wednesday’s was the first his presidency, and millions of Americans, worried about their own financial futures, terrorism, and two ongoing war tuned their television sets to see where their national leadership stood on these critical issues.  What they got was... Read More→

NYC’s nanny-state progressive, excuse me… non-partisan, bold acting Mayor, who forced himself into a 3rd consecutive term by amending a popular law, is taking to task the evil consumers of the chemical compound sodium chloride. That’s right.  After banning cigarette smoking in private establishments and raising his city’s prices for cigarettes to ~$10 a pack through taxation (to fund what, exactly?), the egomaniac good mayor, who couldn’t stand the thought of leaving... Read More→

U.S. Hospitals Lure Canadians From the Toronto Star (January 1, 2010): Kaleida Health, which consists of five hospitals in Western New York located minutes from the U.S.-Canada border, has begun a marketing campaign in southern Ontario encouraging Canadians to come south to avoid wait times for a number of services, including bariatric surgeries, colonoscopies, joint replacements, fracture repairs and MRIs. So when you hear about the United State’s “crisis” in healthcare, remember... Read More→