President Barack Obama speaks. The stock market slides. Jobs are lost. It shouldn’t surprise anyone to find the video series, Great Depression Cooking with Clara: Episode 1, at the top of the Google Trends 100 most-popular search trends. You know things are getting bad when people are interested in videos that star a 91-year-old woman [...]
Entries from February 2009
‘Great Depression Cooking’ Tops Google Trends
February 27th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: · Barack Obama, clara, clara's depression cooking channel, cooking with clara, depression cooking channel, depression-era cooking, Google Trends, great depression, great depression cooking, great depression cooking with clara, market, Obama, president barack obama, Stock Market, stories from the depression
Congress Reminded to Respect Gun Rights
February 26th, 2009 · No Comments
Responding to Attorney General Eric Holder’s comment yesterday that the Obama Administration will attempt to reinstate a ban against semi-automatic rifles, the National Shooting Sports Foundation reminded Congress and all Americans that such a ban would cause jobs to be lost in a difficult economy, have no effect on reducing crime and would deprive millions [...]
Tags: · assault weapon, assault weapons ban, Attorney General, attorney general eric holder, ccrkba, Congress, eric holder, firearms, gun, gun owners, heller, heller case, holder, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, illegal guns, Nancy Pelosi, national shooting sports foundation, nssf, Obama, obama administration, Pelosi, Pro-Gun, Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Second Amendment, semi-automatic, semi-automatic firearms
Mother of Victim Writes Letter Calling for Full, Transparent Reveiw of Flight 93 Memorial Project
February 26th, 2009 · No Comments
Three times during the past couple of years, I’ve written posts about the controversy surrounding efforts to construct a memorial to the heroic passengers aboard Flight 93, the hijacked United Airlines aircraft that crashed into a field in Western Pennsylvania Sept. 11, 2001. Today, I encourage you to read a letter written by Beverly Burnett. [...]
Tags: · 9-11, beverly burnett, beverly burnett's letter, crescent, crescent of embrace, flight 93 crash site, flight 93 memorial, flight 93 memorial project, fort snelling national cemetery, heroic passengers, mecca, memorial, Middle East, minaret, mosque, Muslims, national park service, Pennsylvania, Sept. 11, September 11, Shanksville, somerset, somerset county, still points to mecca, the tower of voices, tom burnett jr., tom burnett sr., tower of voices, united airlines, united flight 93, wreaths across america
Sticker: HONK If you’re paying my mortgage.
February 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Don Surber‘s running a post today that features a bumper sticker for sale by the Tennessee Republican Party that just might be the best creation yet of the still-infant Obama Era: To order, click here or on the graphic above. [Note: Be patient as the TNGOP.org web site is being overwhelmed at the moment.] For [...]
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Newspaper Continues To Ignore St. Louis Tea Party
February 26th, 2009 · No Comments
It seems as if nothing has changed at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch during the 24 hours. The blackout on newspaper coverage of the Saint Louis Tea Party continues. Yesterday, in St. Louis Newspaper Ignores Tea Party Movement, I highlighted the fact that the staff at the city’s lone major daily had ignored the upcoming local [...]
Tags: · arnie robbins, citizen unrest, CNBC, journalistic ignorance, lee newspapers, Post-Dispatch, rick santelli, santelli, St. Louis, st. louis newspaper, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, st. louis tea party, tea party, tea party movement
Chevron Exec Addresses Members of Congress (Updated)
February 26th, 2009 · No Comments
In a statement made during his appearance before members of the House Committee on Natural Resources Wednesday, Gary Luquette said he believes the oil and natural gas industry can assist the United States in the economic recovery process “by enhancing America’s energy security and by creating more jobs and more revenue for federal, state and [...]
Tags: · chevron, chevron north america, Dependence on Foreign Oil, economic growth, economic recovery, energy demand, energy future, energy portfolio, energy security, gary luquette, gulf of mexico, house committee on natural resources, luquette, minerals management service, mms, moratoria, natural gas, ocs, oil, oil and natural gas industry, outer continental shelf, renewables
Survey: Future of Coal Industry Looks Bleak
February 26th, 2009 · No Comments
On Nov. 3, 2008, a coal industry official told me that “Electricity costs would skyrocket” under President Barack Obama. Today, more bad news — for both the coal industry and the economy — surfaced. The global economic slowdown has cast a pall over the mining industry with the vast majority of mining executives saying they [...]
Tags: · Barack Obama, commodity prices, decreased investment, electricity, electricity costs, exploration, exploration companies, fraser institute, global economic slowdown, mining, mining executives, mining industry, Obama, president barack obama, raw materials, recession, shortage of raw materials, skyrocketing commodity prices, survey, survey of mining companies
