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Archive for 'Politicians' Category
Corn does not belong in my gas tank
28 June 2007A study in modern politics would be well served to study the concept of corn in our gas tanks. This is raw naked political power being exercised in the open with little regard to appearances.
“There is just no energy benefit to using plant biomass for liquid fuel,” says David Pimentel, professor of ecology and […]
I believe in fairness.
25 June 2007“I do believe in fairness. I remember when there was a fairness doctrine, and I think there was much more serious, correct reporting to people.” Senator Feinstein said she is ‘looking at’ reviving the fairness doctrine on ‘Fox News Sunday’ this morning. “I think there ought to be an opportunity to present the other side. […]
Liability $516,348 per U.S. household
22 June 2007Rules ‘hiding’ trillions in debt
The federal government recorded a $1.3 trillion loss last year — far more than the official $248 billion deficit — when corporate-style accounting standards are used, a USA TODAY analysis shows.
The loss reflects a continued deterioration in the finances of Social Security and government retirement programs for civil servants and military […]
The RTBA: Read the Bills Act
7 June 2007The RTBA: Read the Bills Act
http://www.downsizedc.org/read_the_la…_laws.shtml
would make it a requirement that proposed legislation be posted to the internet for 7 days prior to a vote in Congress and that the bills actually be read in Congress before the vote. Sounds like a good idea. Of course, it wouldn’t be possible to have gargantuan complicated bills […]
“This is a very fair, progressive, and wonderful tax package for the state of Connecticut,” Daily said
30 May 2007Cue movie scene, Democrats running through meadows of flowers carrying large baskets of cash and throwing the money to lines of adoring peasants.
Cue music, Twlight Zone theme. Now in your best Rod Sterling voice, “Contemplate this, WHAT PLANET ARE THEY ON?”. It is so wonderful, full of love and caring and compassion and […]
To Arms!, To Arms!
29 May 2007We have but a week left for the state houses to finish up and adjourn, please pray for a swift end to this years excuse for state government and get them home where the damage they can inflict is limited.
There is no budget. But we have discussed ad-nausea, elephants, gays, bottles and still the […]
The Rise of Parentalism
30 March 2007Myths of the Nanny State
by Radley Balko
From the Cato Institute: In a recent paper published in the journal Public Choice, “Afraid to be Free: Dependency as Desideratum,” Nobel Prize–winning economist James Buchanan composes a new taxonomy of socialist threats to liberty. Buchanan argues that the conventional threats to freedom from managerial socialism (central planning) and […]
TAX DAY AT THE CAPITOL
21 March 2007Sorry for the font color, I don’t have time to edit the file, evidently the FCTO uses a canned web design program with hundreds of font markups which would have to be edited one at a time as found. This press release needed to get out now.
From: Susan Kniep, President
The Federation of […]
Zogby Poll: Voters Believe Media Bias is Very Real
17 March 2007All perception is relative, I get it. But just what media are the people who report a “conservative bias on their TV sets and in their column inches” viewing? Got to wonder.
FoxNews after getting their numbers up have moved to the center and in IMHO the most truthful of all the casts. So just who […]
Circling Sharks
6 March 2007I feel like a sailor whose ship has gone down with the sharks circling in increasingly tight circles.
The sharks would be Gov Rell and the Democrat Houses and there is no lifeboat in sight.
Rell on one side wants to spend massive amounts of additional dollars, billions on education, Amann on the other side wants to […]