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http://vimeo.com/20451029 This is NOT a GOOOH Video.. but it sure makes the case that the GOOOH process MUST succeed in 2012 ! Wake up America !..... Please !

A generation ago, it wasn’t that easy to keep track of what our Senators and Representatives in Washington were doing. Newspapers, interest groups or the legislators themselves would inform the public about certain votes. Or you could go to a library and pore over thousands of pages of the Congressional Record. All of that changed in 1995. Voters had elected Republican majorities to both the House and Senate, and with new political policies came new ideas. Incoming Speaker Newt Gingrich realized that knowledge was power, and wanted to increase the power of voters.

...It was at the behest of the her organization that the NMB threw out over 75 years worth of precedent last year in instituting a "minority rule" for union elections: now that a tiny minority of employees can force collective bargaining upon their peers as long as an opposing majority remains silent, it's no wonder that Delta would make every effort for its employees to be cognizant of the election (which in no way violates the law). It seems that AFA's president explicitly opposes workers participating in the democratic process, if the results are not to her liking. The meat...

The federal budget – whether it’s the continuing resolution to finish the current fiscal year or President Obama’s FY ’12 budget and the forthcoming counterproposal from House Republicans – remains the issue of the day in Washington and despite extensive debate, misinformation remains abound in the media. Yesterday on Morning Joe, co-host Mika Brzezinski and former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell volleyed calls for higher taxes. Brzezinski talked about the need to “spread the pain,” in reference to raising taxes on “the rich” (read: the majority of small business profits and workers). According to IRS data, here’s where “the pain” is...

...For all those who claim that the education of our children is simply too priceless to worry about cost and that we should throw more money at the problem, there is this next tidbit. According to the video, MPS “has been listed as a district identified for improvement for four years under No Child Left Behind.” The system graduates a measly 68% of its students. Winning The Future will certainly take much stronger performance on the part of our nation’s teachers unions, especially at the price of $100,000. The exorbitant salaries and benefits paid to public sector workers when compared...

In a report released today, GAO confirmed what many Americans already know: the government has no idea what it is doing. The report, commissioned by Senator Tom Coburn who amended the request into last year’s debt limit increase, shows that overlap of responsibilities amongst government agencies costs taxpayers billions a year, with more waste and abuse still likely to be uncovered. The report’s findings are astounding: it shows at least $100 billion is wasted each year in redundant missions and spending; responsibilities are conflated across various agencies and programs, providing little reason to believe any of these programs are serving...

The White House recently announced it will shift debt from the Federal Reserve to the Treasury in an attempt to “buy time” on raising the debt limit ceiling. Rather than sly accounting, the federal government should dispose of the billions in assets it holds, stop the spending binge to acquire and maintain those assets and rescind the failed “stimulus.” Get out of the bailout business. Simply by selling the remainder of its General Motors shares, the government could net $18 billion in savings. The government should also demand GM pay back the $30 billion in outstanding assistance from TARP. Days...

"...Yet in the President’s $3.8 trillion budget, Obama is asking for $553 billion for his defense budget. He claims he has found $78 billion in “cuts” over the next five years, most of which aren’t actual cuts as they are funneled into other defense spending programs. On top of that, the Obama budget projects defense spending to grow by a full percentage point over the next decade. Even Republicans, who are traditionally loath to decrease military spending, made almost $20 billion in cuts to security-related accounts in the FY 2011 Continuing Resolution. The President declined to show any such restraint....

Is the Democrat fixation on failure finally coming to an end? That's what some may be thinking as Democrats in Congress respond to the introduction of a new stop-gap funding measure by House Republicans last week. After refusing to debate the long-term CR passed by the House last Saturday, Senate Democrats spent last week demagoguing the package, attempting once again to forestall a comprehensive budget plan for the 2011 fiscal year. However, after refusing to pass a budget last year, forcing the government to operate on stop-gap funds and continuing to clamor for higher spending, Democrats have intimated the short-term...

My son (a believer) and one of his childhood friends (an atheist and extreme liberal) are taking a philosophy 101 class at the local college here in town and they are debating the Euthyphro Dilemma. There are two audio files in this post that DESTROY the atheists argument in regards to this position, not to mention that this is in fact NOT a dilemma: [QUOTE] ...While Plato was dealing with polytheism and a form of monism, this argument as dealt with herein is response to the challenges presented to theism. However, his use of a third option is what we...

When 'Made In China' Isn't Enough ~“Every once and awhile you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary.” ~ Rep. Mike Capuano (D-Ma.)Made in China wasn’t enough, now union minions want to be owned by China as well. So far all I see is a bunch of snot-nosed, deficit-financed, government slugs spewing nonsense, but not one drop of blood. Hey union guys, this isn’t 1945, except maybe in terms of the National Debt. Back in the day, American unions used to fight so-called greedy capitalists for higher pay, greater benefits, and better working...

the Obama administration might want to rethink its high-density and urban-oriented strategy. Despite all the media focus on an imagined “back to the city” movement, Americans continue to disperse to “opportunity regions” and toward the suburbs. As a result, expect generally conservative-leaning suburbs and exurbs to gain more power after reapportionment and core city influence to decline further.

...Mr. Lipton’s main target was Tim Phillips, President of Americans for Prosperity: “The visitor, Tim Phillips, the president of Americans for Prosperity, told a large group of counterprotesters who had gathered Saturday at one edge of what otherwise was a mostly union crowd that the cuts were not only necessary, but they also represented the start of a much-needed nationwide move to slash public-sector union benefits. “We are going to bring fiscal sanity back to this great nation,” he said. What Mr. Phillips did not mention was that his Virginia-based nonprofit group, whose budget surged to $40 million in 2010...

In order to force the absence of a “quorum,” and thus delay an inevitable Republican victory, senate Democrats have fled Wisconsin, holding their votes hostage “Dog Day Afternoon” style in motels across Illinois. In the mean-time union members, government employees, and teachers—some with students in tow—have been playing hooky to mau-mau the remaining members of the state senate. Enter Monday's lead editorial in the Washington Post. Choosing the side of moderate reform rather than rabid collectivism, the Post cautioned that “abolishing contract negotiations between unions and management is not necessarily a panacea for state and local governments - or a...

It’s not often that you’ll see the Environmental Protection Agency fighting for American businesses against the encroachment of Big Government. Despite a recent tendency to disregard the economic impact of its most noxious regulations, the unwilling Agency is being dragged, by court order, to release its long awaited boiler-MACT rules. The Maximum Achievable Control Technology standards in question were first announced in spring of last year. Intended to replace the previous rules, which were vacated by a D.C. circuit court in 2007, these new MACT regulations would impose exacting emissions standards upon thousands of fossil fuel and biomass-fired boilers nationwide....

The following proposals were intended as amendments to the House’s recently passed H.R. 1, a continuing resolution for FY 2011. Although each failed its respective vote, the fact that such bold reforms are under consideration holds promise for the future. Indeed, thin margins of defeat in certain cases indicate that eventual passage is possible...

"Dr. Ronald Polland: Obama's Two Minute Warning; Factcheck.org Forged Obama's Birth Certificate Game over, Barack Obama. This 2-minute video will destroy your birth certificate fraud. You were not born here. You are not a US citizen. Your FORGED BIRTH CERTIFICATE, fabricated by Annenberg Factcheck, proves you are a liar, a fraud, an imposter, and an illegal alien. The FIRST EIGHT SECONDS of this video buries your rabid liberal media in their own lies. They demanded that conservatives accept what the Hawaii Governor said about you and your birth certificate. We do - now you and your gullible supporters must do...

The workforce of the Internal Revenue Service currently consists of over 93,000 employees to collect and process tax returns and enforce tax laws. While this number is daunting in and of itself, the IRS recently released its new budget which calls for an additional 1,056 new IRS employees citing specifically the new demands placed on the agency due to the new healthcare law. Beyond just more employees the burden of the healthcare law would require more facilities and new systems to handle the task; U.S. News and World Report put the cost to taxpayers at over $359 million in fiscal...

...There is another reason that Jerry Brown wants Republicans to go along with his budget plan aside from the fact that he needs four GOP votes to get his tax hikes on the ballot. The fact is that Brown knows that his budget does nothing to address the states true problem – overspending, it does nothing to address the state’s unfunded pension liability pegged at half a trillion dollars, and will only leave the state’s economy worse off. Brown knows this and wants Republican fingerprints on it for that reason. Gov. Brown’s budget has the same problem as Obama’s –...

With so many states facing crushing budget deficits and unsustainable growth in spending, governors and state legislatures across the nation are finally taking the lead and beginning to combat the exorbitant power of organized labor. These steps are being driven not only by necessity, but because the American people are beginning to recognize the radical agenda of labor unions that seek to deny workers the fundamental right to choose their own terms of employment. Even those on the far left are falling into this trend, as a demonstrated by a recent article in The Nation Magazine. In discussing ways to...