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Employment generation disappointing: LA City Controller By IB Times Staff Reporter The Los Angeles City Controller said on Thursday the city's use of its share of the $800 billion federal stimulus fund has been disappointing. The city received $111 million in stimulus under American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) approved by the Congress more than year ago. "I'm disappointed that we've only created or retained 55 jobs after receiving $111 million," says Wendy Greuel, the city's controller, while releasing an audit report. "With our local unemployment rate over 12% we need to do a better job cutting red tape and...

56% Oppose Justice Department Challenge of Arizona Law; 61% Favor Similar Law In Their State Voters by a two-to-one margin oppose the U.S. Justice Department’s decision to challenge the legality of Arizona’s new immigration law in federal court. Sixty-one percent (61%), in fact, favor passage of a law like Arizona’s in their own state, up six points from two months ago. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 28% of voters agree that the Justice Department should challenge the state law. Fifty-six percent (56%) disagree and another 16% are not sure. These findings are unchanged from late...

I'm tossing out this thought for someone with more graphic arts skills than I. As the presidential election approached there were numerous leftists proclaiming Obama as a "Lightworker". It occurs to me, a good slogan would be... "Obama the Lightworker turned out to be a dim bulb."

David Jungerman farms 6,800 acres of river bottom land in western Missouri. (snip) So when the 72-year-old Raytown man wanted to speak out politically, he used what he had handy: a 45-foot-long, semi-truck box trailer. Are you a Producer or Parasite Democrats - Party of the Parasites (snip) They did. Including at least one with a good case of outrage, matches and a can of gas. On May 12, Jungerman’s trailer was torched. The Rich Hill volunteer fire department responded. A week later, it was set afire again. The firefighters put it out again. Then flames erupted in an empty...

Business Under Nazis by Ralph R. Reiland In 1944, Ludwig von Mises published one of his least-known masterworks: Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War. Drawing on his prewar experience in Vienna, watching the rise of the National Socialists in Germany (the Nazis), who would eventually take over his own homeland, he set out to draw parallels between the Russian and German experience with socialism. It was common in those days, as it is in ours, to identify the Communists as leftist and the Nazis as rightists, as if they stood on opposite ends of the...

The Second Revolution is on the way! By Dave Duffy Does anyone know how much money a trillion dollars is? It's a handy thing to know because our country will be about $12.5 trillion in debt by the time you read this. snip There are several ways to try to get a mental grip on just how much money a trillion is. Reader Harvey Smith of Visalia, California, suggests we think of it in seconds: One million seconds would take you back 11.5 days, one billion seconds would take you back 31.7 years, and one trillion seconds would take you...

Never again allow liberals to claim how brilliant and super evolved Obama is. Obama isn't even as smart as a 5th grader by his own admission. In His commencment speach at Hampton College he made a fact claim about his inability to operate standard devices as simple as an ipod and a Playstation. Kid's younger than the 5th grade are masters of such devices, and if we have a president who by his own admission is incapable of operating an ipod then I refuse to ever again make a claim as to Obama's proclaimed brilliance. Here's a short excerpt related...

Dems attack Rossi ahead of possible Senate bid By CURT WOODWARD ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Democrats stepped up their pre-emptive campaign against potential Republican Senate candidate Dino Rossi on Thursday, alleging that $20,000 in delinquent property taxes owed by his business partners show poor ethical standards on his part. Rossi, a two-time gubernatorial runner-up, is mulling a possible run against Democratic Sen. Patty Murray. Rossi dismissed Thursday's Democratic attacks as inaccurate and said he has no direct ties to the property in question. At issue are unpaid property taxes on a building in Everett owned by a real...

The Obama administration said Tuesday it would provide more information to Congress about the Fort Hood shootings but continued to defy a subpoena request for witness statements and other documents. After days of negotiations, the Pentagon and Justice Department informed a Senate committee that they would not comply with congressional subpoenas to share investigative records from the Nov. 5 shootings at Fort Hood, Tex., which killed 13 people.

The top 25 U.S. newspapers by average weekday and Sunday circulation from October 2009 through March. The percentage changes are from the same six-month span last year.

Unexpected rise in US jobless claims By Alan Rappeport in Washington Published: April 8 2010 14:11 | Last updated: April 8 2010 14:11 The number of US workers claiming jobless benefits for the first time recorded an unexpected rise last week, diminishing some of the recent signs of hope for the labour market. Initial jobless claims rose by 18,000 to 460,000 last week, labour department figures showed on Thursday. Economists were expecting claims to decline. However, the total number of Americans claiming jobless benefits fell, declining by 131,000 to 4.55m. Analysts say that the recent declines in continuing claims reflect...

I suspect that many of us have debated with liberals on various topics and the Tea Party has come into the conversation. Liberals titter at their grade-school sexual slang when they refer to the "teabaggers". I submit that to ignore this is to cede the battleground of terms. But to simply argue about the term "teabagger" does nothing other than to put one on the defensive and reinforces the use of the term. My suggestion is that instead of arguing about "teabaggers" instead use the term Tea Party Patriot instead of Tea Partiers. The shift in term is both accurate...

WA Legislature OKs tax increase for 911 upgrades THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OLYMPIA, Wash. -- State lawmakers have approved a bill that lets counties and the state increase taxes on land lines and cell phones to pay for 911 system upgrades. Voice-over-Internet phone services would be taxed as well under the bill, which got final approval from the state House on a 56-34 vote Friday.

MSNBC continues its dominance of CNN during prime time as the 2nd place cable news outlet, while CNN remains ahead during dayside hours (with Fox News dominating in 1st place in both categories). But a strange thing happened in the first quarter of 2010 – the 8pmET landmark show Countdown fared better without regular host Keith Olbermann than with him.

Amendment 13 - Slavery Abolished. Ratified 12/6/1865. History 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. This is the text of the 13th Ammendment that abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude. Obamacare is not a tax because money is not being collected by the government, but the mandatory purchase clause of Obamacare does require an individual to, against their will, purchase products from a...

Sources: Suspected Pentagon gunman was from Hollister Mar 4, 2010 By The Free Lance Staff John Patrick Bedell's family has lived in Hollister for many years. The 36-year-old man suspected in the Pentagon shooting today was from Hollister, local and media sources have confirmed. John Patrick Bedell was identified earlier today by the Associated Press as the suspected gunman. The AP also now has confirmed Bedell died of injuries sustained in the incident. Local sources say he was the son of Kaye Bedell, the director of allied health at Gavilan College, and John Bedell, Sr., a financial planner in Hollister....

Climate scientists withdraw journal claims of rising sea levels Study claimed in 2009 that sea levels would rise by up to 82cm by the end of century – but the report's author now says true estimate is still unknown.Scientists have been forced to withdraw a study on projected sea level rise due to global warming after finding mistakes that undermined the findings.

Who could forget the $5 billion in Obama administration stimulus money that was going to rapidly create nearly 90,000 green jobs across the country in these tough economic times and make so many thousands of homes all snuggy and warm and energy-efficient these very snowy days? Well, a new report due out this morning will show the $5-billion program is so riddled with drafts that so far it's weatherized only about 9,000 homes.

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UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation and magazine article The United Nations' expert panel on climate change based claims about ice disappearing from the world's mountain tops on a student's dissertation and an article in a mountaineering magazine. The revelation will cause fresh embarrassment for the The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which had to issue a humiliating apology earlier this month over inaccurate statements about global warming.