AMERICAN THINKER 19 May 2014 Richard L Benkin India’s New Prime Minister Bodes well for us Since Friday when India’s election results were announced, pundits worldwide have been trying to tell us what should make of the landslide victory that made Narendra Modi Prime Minister (PM). Most of it, however, is punditry through Google […]
(CNSNews.com) – As job growth lags in the sluggish economic recovery, the Obama White House is pointing to climate change policies as a fix: Efforts to reduce carbon pollution, far from costing jobs, will create them, a White House spokesman told reporters on Wednesday: “Retrofitting buildings and modernizing them is one way to create jobs,” […]
Revenues are up modestly for the US Postal Service as First-class Mail volumes continue to tumble “extremely” but package volumes are rising; however, USPS records a $1.9 billion loss in the last quarter, despite efforts to streamline efficiency and cut costs. The rise in package volumes appears related to a “Sunday delivery” deal with Amazon.com […]
(CNSNews.com) – Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen, referencing the Congressional Budget Office’s long-term budget projections, told the Joint Economic Committee of Congress today that under current policies the federal government’s deficits “will rise to unsustainable levels.” In the 10-year budget projections it released in April, the CBO estimated that the federal government will run $7.618 trillion […]
Despite adding more than 8 million people to the working-age population since 2007, total employment has declined by half a million, according to an analysis by the Senate Budget Committee. Before President Barack Obama took office 259.7 million people were part of the working-age population, or between ages 16 and 65. Now, the number has […]
Photo: Arco Images G/Newscom Massachusetts is the latest state to walk away from its online health insurance exchange. Officials announced today that Massachusetts Health Connector — the agency in charge of the state’s health exchange under President Obama’s Affordable Care Act — plans to abandon its website, the Boston Globe reported. The agency will buy […]
What’s worse than using taxpayer money for special interests and cronyism? Maybe sending taxpayer money to nations that aren’t the best friends of the United States. The Export-Import Bank does both. It loans money to foreign companies and governments to buy products from politically favored American companies. Hard-working Americans are backing these loans. This map […]
(Canada Free Press) An interesting news item caught my attention a couple of weeks back. Apparently the Canadian middle class has surpassed the American middle class in economic standing. According to a NY Times analysis, after-tax income of middle class Canadians has now surpassed that of America’s middle class, which purportedly makes Canada’s middle class […]
(CNSNews.com) – Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring, a Democrat, says young people who are in the commonwealth illegally may qualify for in-state tuition. “These ‘DREAMers’ are already Virginians in some very important ways,” Herring told the presidents of Virginia’s public colleges and universities on Tuesday. “In most cases they were raised here, they graduated from […]
Half the residents of Illinois (50%), Connecticut (49%) and Maryland (47%) would flee their state if they had the chance, a new Gallup Poll show. Residents of these states are also the most likely to leave, and Gallup attributes three factors: State taxes State Government Quality of Life “Nevada, Illinois, Maryland, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York, […]
