Wow. House Democrats on Thursday unveiled details of an $825 billion plan designed to boost the sagging U.S. economy. The package is a mixture of $550 billion in spending programs and $275 billion in temporary tax cuts that Democrats hope will add 3 to 4 million jobs to the American workforce. Amount of Republican input [...]
While moving from 1 meeting to another this afternoon, I noted a small news item indicating that a “small aircraft” had crashed into the Hudson River near Manhattan. That’s certainly something to attract my interest but I had no time to pursue it. When I got home this evening, I found out that the event [...]
With the bailout fever firmly in place in Congress and the incoming Obama administration looking to sink another $1 trillion in taxpayer funds into a whole slew of payola to supporters public works projects, Hugh Hewitt has a suggestion for Obama that I could certainly get behind: If President Obama was to demand the funding [...]
The results of the last poll, asking whether Loudoun’s School Board should change the grading scale in Loudoun to the 10-point system vs. the 7-point now in use, shows that 100% of HoodaThunk?’s respondents say “yes”. Sounds like a mandate to me. Next up: are you planning on attending the inauguration next week? Ping the [...]
Rep. Rangel (D-NY & Corruption) is apparently set to once again be the guy advancing a bill to reinstate the draft. Rangel’s the guy who brought this up after the 2006 mid-term elections and who apparently didn’t think enough of his own bill to actually vote for it when the motion was forced to the [...]
I said earlier in the week that a job posting for Australia’s Queensland Tourism department was a tempting offer but I wasn’t in the market for a 6-month temp job. Apparently, there are a lot of folks who are: Desperate to snag what’s being billed as the “Best Job in the World,” thousands of people [...]
