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President Donald Trump, saying consumer confidence is high, vowed to kill more regulations while he works on tax cuts. In an early Friday morning tweet, Trump said: " Consumer confidence is at a 16 year high....and for good reason. Much more regulation "busting" to come. Working hard on tax cuts & reform! " — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 4, 2017

National Labor Relations Board members ruled Monday that NBC Universal, the parent company of the namesake TV network and the cable news channel MSNBC, was illegally refusing to deal with its employees' union, the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians. It ordered the company to "cease and desist" avoiding the union. "[T]he Respondent has been failing and refusing to bargain collectively and in good faith with the exclusive collective-bargaining representative of its unit employees and has engaged in unfair labor practices," ruled a three-member NLRB majority. The announcement is ironic given that MSNBC has remade itself as a liberal...

As a thank-you to its most famous customer, Amtrak is renaming the train station in Wilmington, Del., after stimulus “sheriff” Vice President Joseph R. Biden - after the project received $20 million in stimulus money and came in $5.7 million over the initial announced budget. Spokesmen for Mr. Biden, who said he personally fought for stimulus money for Amtrak, didn’t respond to messages Wednesday or Thursday.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory climatologist Bill Patzert and Tim Brick, head of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (*Use Less and Pay More,* LATimes, Feb. 24) state that *we can't afford our wasteful ways any longer* when it comes to water. Link: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-brick24-2009feb24,0,3291692.story Contrary to Patzert and Brick, our present water situation is not a drought caused by household waste or even population growth. Conservation and agricultural efficiencies have brought about roughly the same level of water use over the last ten years. Drought is a misnomer. Even water activist Dorothy Green recently stated there is no *drought.* Drought...

Pa. man chews through belly-busting, 15-lb. burgerThe Associated Press CLEARFIELD, Pa.—It took Brad Sciullo 4 hours and 39 minutes to finish a marathon. A meat marathon, that is. The 5-foot-11, 180-pound western Pennsylvania chef is the first person to eat a monstrosity called the Beer Barrel Belly Bruiser: a 15-pound burger with toppings and a bun that brought the total weight to 20.2 pounds. The mountain of beef is the product of Denny's Beer Barrel Pub, about 100 miles northeast of Pittsburgh in Clearfield. Sciullo, 21, of Uniontown, said he was surprised he finished the sandwich Monday. "About three hours...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's president-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that oil production and export deals in the world's fourth-largest crude producer needed to be clarified. The country's biggest capital today is the oil industry and our oil reserves," the ultra-conservative Tehran mayor said in a radio address after winning presidential elections on Friday. "The atmosphere ruling over our deals, production and exports is not clear. We should clarify it," he added, without elaborating. Political analysts expect Ahmadinejad to make sweeping changes in the management of the state-run oil industry after repeated comments during the campaign in which he accused...

Busting the Sound Barrier >

According to ABC News, only 25% of voters believe every vote will be counted properly. That's good news, actually. It means that something approaching 75% of voters know that the Democrats are planning to cheat any way they can. Anyone else notice the unions have not run political ads this year? Unions got together and decided they could better use that ad money as "get out the vote" money. There is no telling how much money they will be spreading around, but I would guess it would total somewhere between one-hundred and a hundred-twenty million. That's how much they think...

Tiny Nukes America's first-strike nuclear weapons: How they work. Who's in the crosshairs. BY JIM WILSON Lead photo by Randy Montoya/Sandia National Laboratories As a horrified nation watched the twin towers and Pentagon dissolve in flames, a realization more chilling than the audacity of the attack gripped the nation's defense planners. The Saudi and Egyptian terrorists who turned hijacked airliners into human-guided missiles had attacked far more than the edifices of the nation's financial and military power. Although not obvious to most watching the unfolding drama, the assault also pulverized the keystone of America's strategic defense policy-the concept of nuclear...