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Date: August 5th, 2009

Obama wants Americans to turn in their neighbors if they oppose his healthcare takeover

5 August, 2009 (16:48) | Medicine, Politics | By: ricjames

The White House has a suggestion for you if you get an e-mail from someone or read something on the web about the Obama health care reform “that seems fishy”: report them. They’ve set up a special e-mail address you can forward it to where the administration will… um… well, they’re not saying what they’ll [...]

Govt study done at Waxman’s and Markey’s request shows cap-and-trade as bad as opponents claim

5 August, 2009 (13:11) | Economy, Energy, Politics | By: ricjames

From US News & World Report: U.S. Reps. Henry Waxman of California and Ed Markey of Massachusetts, two of the leading Democratic co-sponsors of H.R. 2454—the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, better known as the cap-and-trade bill—asked the United States Energy Information Administration to analyze their bill’s impact on energy prices and [...]

Latest GDP report shows “stimulus” bill ineffective thus far

5 August, 2009 (12:22) | Economy, Politics | By: ricjames

Casey B. Mulligan is a professor of economics at the University of Chicago and, by all reports, knows his stuff. He knows it well enough that the New York Times published an article from Mulligan in today’s paper titled, “Chump Change in the Latest G.D.P. Report.” In it, Mulligan squarely rebuts the spin that the [...]

Leadership in the Governor’s office is key

5 August, 2009 (11:56) | Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

Bob McDonnell is showing the leadership and his opponent is showing he doesn’t have any to show: