As most of you know by now, Senate Democrats voted on Saturday night in favor of proceeding to Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The final vote was 60-39. Senator Voinovich was absent but would have voted ‘no’ along side all of his other Republican colleagues. Senator [...]
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Rep. Michael Capuano (D-Mass.), one of four Democrats currently vying for the late Edward Kennedy’s Massachusetts Senate seat (the others being state Attorney General Martha Coakley, City Year co-founder Alan Khazei, and Boston Celtics co-owner Stephen Pagliuca), recently made waves with the declaration of his intentions upon becoming a Senator. The November 16, 2009 edition [...]
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Remember that annoying song in the 1980′s? It was over played and people just got sick of it In fact, Bobby McFerrin, the artist who wrote and performed the song (and made millions off of it) now refuses to ever sing it again. Now, Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) wants to have a day of “no [...]
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At midnight last night Senator Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) became the longest serving member of Congress. According to a November 18 Associated Press article: Setting records is old news to the white-maned Democratic lawmaker. Since June 12, 2006, Byrd has been the longest-serving senator and later that year he was elected to an unprecedented ninth term. [...]
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The latest word on the alternate engine for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) came today from Dr. Loren Thompson, the chief operating officer for The Lexington Institute. His comments follow the news that the GE-Rolls Royce team has had to redesign part of the engine after its fourth test failure during only 52 hours of testing, which will [...]
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Passed as part of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) allocated $700 billion to buy failed mortgages and other toxic assets in an effort to address the nation’s financial crisis. Since TARP’s enactment, however, taxpayer money has instead been used to bail out banks, acquire ownership stakes in [...]
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Among many problems with the House-passed healthcare bill, including the creation of 118 new boards, bureaucracies, commissions and programs, as shown in the chart prepared by the House Republican Conference, is the lack of any attempt to change the current healthcare system. There is, of course, still time to do something that makes more sense and costs [...]
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Despite a sustained rash of news articles that the 640,000 jobs that the Obama Administration claims it “saved or created” is as phony as a $3 bill, there appears to be a willful refusal to make any corrections on their website touting the success. We pointed out that the Obama Administration had a problem with [...]
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No, that isn’t a joke or a typo. According to Politico: President Barack Obama plans to announce in next year’s State of the Union address that he wants to focus extensively on cutting the federal deficit in 2010 – and will downplay other new domestic spending beyond jobs programs, according to top aides involved in the [...]
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According to a Reuters article appearing on November 10, 2009, deliveries of the F136 alternate engine will be delayed one year. Built by General Electric and Rolls-Royce, the alternate engine program has had two major setbacks in as many months. In October, F136 testing was halted when a nut came loose during testing, damaging turbine [...]
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