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POSTED: November 01, 1986 NEW YORK — Score one for the Trumpster. Back in June, when the city's bungled, six-year effort to renovate the Wollman Ice-Skating Rink in Central Park was $12 million over budget with no end in sight, real-estate tycoon Donald Trump stepped forward. Just give the project to me, he said, and I'll finish the rink by Christmas. This Christmas. And for free. "I have total confidence that we will be able to do it," Trump said at the time. "I am going on record as saying that I will not be embarrassed." Yesterday morning, in a...

Doc: Your child can’t walk? Mom: That’s right, he can’t walk. He was hit by a truck a couple of days ago. Could that be the cause? Doc: Hmm, correlation does not mean causation so don’t jump to conclusions. Mom: He was absolutely normal in every way before he got hit by the truck. He was walking, talking, learning new words everyday. He was such a happy delightful baby. Now he can’t walk. Doc: Sometimes babies do that. Truck warningMom: You don’t think getting hit by the truck was the cause? I did some research and I found out that...

America has an enviable choice when it goes to the polls tomorrow. The contest between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney isn’t just between a Democrat and a Republican: It is between two entirely different visions of the future of the world’s greatest power. The choice is stark. It is between continuing a journey towards European-style statism and welfarism, which is what Obama is offering if he is re-elected, or reducing the size of the state and encouraging enterprise and individual responsibility, which is at the core of Mr Romney’s programme. It is also a choice between more social liberalism –...

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The California Chamber of Commerce rolled out its so-called "job killers list" last week ahead of the final week for the state Senate and Assembly to pass their own bills before sending them to the other house. California Governor Jerry Brown was Tuesday's KVML "Newsmaker of the Day". This year's roster names 28 proposed laws the chamber says would hurt the state's economy as it emerges from recession. All are sponsored by Democrats, as has been the case almost exclusively with the hundreds of bills to which the chamber has given its stamp of disapproval over the years.

This is a short youtube clip from the floor. It is always eye opening to see arrogance in action. "This is why the people have thrown you out"

Even while groping with their multibillion dollar budget deficit, state legislators and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger found time in 2009 to put hundreds of new laws on the books, just as they had in years past when the state wasn't going broke. A comprehensive list would be too long to publish here. However, the new laws we feature reveal 120 legislators with too much time on their hands and too much hubris in their hearts. The governor, who could have vetoed every one, shares the blame for the 724 new edicts.

Hope this hasn't already been posted.

Legislate in haste, repent at leisure. Almost everything we’ve done in response to the credit crunch has served to exacerbate our problems. Quite apart from the generational debt, the nationalisations and the red tape, we have put in place the machinery of global economic government.

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This is a really, really wonderful youtube post by a senior citizen to the members of congress and the president. Well thought out, well said. He covers a LOT of ground and I was so impressed. However, I made a mess of my first post, so I am trying again.

This is a really, really wonderful youtube post by a senior citizen to the members of congress and the president. Well thought out, well said. He covers a LOT of ground and I was so impressed.

I don't know if this has already been posted. If it has, I missed it. A very sad, but true (and probably funny) parody of the Obama Administration.

Jamestown, CA -- The Highway Patrol is reporting the death of 51 year old Russell J. Ramirez of Jamestown. Ramirez died at 8:50 this morning at Modesto Memorial Hospital of the injuries he suffered when he was run over by a 2005 Toyota driven by 44 year old Charles L. Johnson of Soulsbyville at approximately 3:40 this morning. Johnson was westbound traveleing at a speed of 60mph when the accident occured. According to the C.H.P. report Ramirez departed the Rosa Linda Motel (Winking Lantern) in an intoxicated state. He then apparently fell asleep on the Hwy 108 pavement where he...

What was supposed to be a joyous occasion – the birth of their first child – turned out to be an Orwellian nightmare for a young Colorado couple whose newborn was vaccinated for hepatitis B over their religious and philosophical objections, while armed guards stood by to prevent them from intervening. "It makes me feel like the country I live in is no better than communist China or the old Soviet Union or Nazi Germany, and that's a very sobering and scary outlook," the father, who does not want to be named, told WorldNetDaily. The saga of "Baby M," as...