The latest unemployment report is out and its shows what I expected – continuing erosion of the job market. 8.5% and rising. So why hasn’t the Spendulus bill programs kicked in and starting creating all these wonderful new jobs the Democrats in DC promised? Simple, they will not be activated for many months to come. […]

All right! Another win for the GOP in a little noticed senate amendment battle – and it wasn’t even close: An Amendment was introduced by Senator John Thune (R-SD) on the Budget Resolution and its text is as follows: To amend the deficit-neutral reserve fund for climate change legislation to require that such legislation does not increase […]

This is a wonderful example to show mathematical and statistical illiterates that is not a good idea to take graphs at face value without understand the data and math behind them: I’ve seen a lot shakier plots used to justify some sweeping conclusions, and if those were justified, well, then I’m forced to conclude that Mexican lemons […]

This is too funny: “If the Republicans can’t break out of being the right wing party of big government, then I think you would see a third party movement in 2012,” Gingrich said Tuesday. The speech, to a group of students at the College of the Ozarks in Missouri, was recorded by Springfield TV station […]

Dominos – a really interesting hobby/sport. In those massive domino drops you never know where they will fall next (the designers do, but not those watching). Are we at a tipping point with the idiots in DC? Could be given how Senator Dodd (D-CT) is being politically crippled over the economic crisis and the failed […]

“Not in our lifetimes“, that is something to ponder. Not in the lifetime of anyone alive today who was born in the year World War I started (1914) onward. Not in 96 years. Think about that. Think about the fact the automobile was in its infancy, so World War I included legions of cavalry (horse […]

It seems we must equate “terrorism” (now aka “man caused disaster” – like there are no women terrorists or terrorism supporters) with the myth that CO2 is causing a warming of our global climate (which has actually been cooling for a decade). That is the only reason I see for the similarity between “man-made global […]

People need to come to grips with the hard (and stunning) math – President Obama is planning to bankrupt this country even though he is also raising taxes like crazy. Too many Obama supporters think they are getting an income tax cut and are immune from paying more taxes because of ‘promises’ made by Obama. […]

There are some voices of sanity left in Washington DC, and thankfully this voice is coming from the conservative side: House Republicans are calling for the economic stimulus package passed in February to be rescinded starting in 2010 as part of their alternative to President Obama’s budget blueprint. After being criticized last week for lacking […]

Update: More details can be found here: Missiles believed to have been fired from a US drone struck a remote compound linked to Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud today – the day after he threatened to attack Washington and took responsibility for the assault on a police training camp in Pakistan. Neither Mr Mehsud or one […]