Archive | January, 2009
Rod Blagojevich Convicted Unanimously
Rod Blagojevich has been convicted by the Illionos State Senate and is no longer Governor of Illinois. Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn will be sworn-in at a time yet to be determined this evening. The vote was unanimous. The State Senate will now determine whether or not Blagojevich will be permitted to hold office in any [...]
CA Gas Stations Close Rather Than Upgrade Pumps
29. January 2009
Environmental Restrictions 101: Regardless of how much better an upgrade will be for the environment, expensive is expensive. Cleaner air doesn’t pay the bill for the upgrade. This April, a mandate from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) called the Enhanced Vapor Recovery Program (EVRP) will go into effect. The idea behind the program is [...]
Culture11 Closes Up Shop
29. January 2009
Unlike Alex Knapp I was never a big fan of the site. Not because I disliked it, per say, but it just never really stood out for me. Anyway, losing what was setting out to be a conservative version of Slate is a sad loss. Sometimes there are simple stories. Culture11’s is one of them. [...]
GOP Congressman Introduces the “Rangel Rule”
29. January 2009
Sometimes being in the minority has its advantages. The legislation calls for the creation of what [Rep. John Carter, R-Texas] calls the, “Rangel Rule,” — drawing attention to the recent legal issues of House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., enabling citizens who fail to pay taxes on time to do so later [...]
NEA Starts Begging for Its Bailout
29. January 2009
The NEA being the National Endowment for the Arts in this scenario. How exactly does sending taxpayer money to the NEA stimulate the economy? Not sure. But then again, replanting the National Mall wasn’t about to lift us out of the recession, either. There has been much public conversation recently regarding the role of the [...]
Obama Throws Party With Cocktails, Expensive Steak
29. January 2009
You’ve just gotten the House of Representatives to pass a spending bill that will cost taxpayers $1.2 trillion. You’ve been lecturing companies, executives, and the general public on the need to sacrifice. Unemployment figures are through the roof and more jobs are being cut by the day. The country is in a deep recession with [...]
Public Support for Stimulus Package Slips
29. January 2009
Not by a substantial amount, but it’s not moving in the pro-stimulus direction for a vote that may take until next month to even come up in the U.S. Senate. Public support for the economic recovery plan crafted by President Obama and congressional Democrats has slipped a bit over the past week. At the same [...]
Gitmo Judge Rejects Obama 120 day Trial Suspension
29. January 2009
The Obama Administration was dealt its first blow on Guantanamo Bay today, as a military judge at the detention center rejected President Obama’s request to suspend tribunals for 120 days. The judge says that the trial of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the mastermind of the USS Cole bombing, will go forward as planned. That is, unless [...]
GOP Official: Stimulus Bill Gives Money to Illegal Aliens
29. January 2009
Illegal aliens will be able to receive checks under the Pelosi-Reid-Obama Debt Act of 2009, a Republican congressional official told the Associated Press Thursday. The legislation, which would send tax credits of $500 per worker and $1,000 per couple, expressly disqualifies nonresident aliens, but it would allow people who don’t have Social Security numbers to [...]
Starbucks Announces Fall in Profit, Thousands of Layoffs
29. January 2009
Gee, who could’ve seen this coming? Six dollars for a crappy cup of coffee that you can purchase at one of the three Starbucks outlets on your block. You mean that might not work well in the time of an economic recession? Starbucks Corp. announced Wednesday that fiscal first quarter profit fell 69 percent as [...]
29. January 2009
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