Little did CNBC reporter Rick Santelli know how far his message would carry after he issued a call for a Chicago Tea Party from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Feb. 19, 2009. After spreading across the United States during the past 23 months, it appears that a grassroots movement, similar to the Tea [...]
Tea Party Movement Goes Global (Update)
January 26th, 2011 · 2 Comments
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Blogger Offers 10 Ways to Save at Supermarket
July 12th, 2008 · No Comments
Below are 10 ways to save serious money at the supermarket and help you offset the skyrocketing prices of food, fuel and other household necessities. Read them and pass this on to your friends, family and neighbors, compliments of Bob McCarty Writes: 1) Loyalty Cards: If you don’t have one, sign up for one. It’s [...]
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Majority Oppose Senate Global Warming Proposal
May 28th, 2008 · No Comments
As the Senate is poised to vote on the Lieberman-Warner America’s Climate Security Act, a new poll finds an overwhelming majority of Americans oppose the higher energy costs the bill would impose. The poll, conducted by the National Center for Public Policy Research, found 65% of Americans reject spending even a penny more for gasoline [...]
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As Food Costs Skyrocket, USDA Raises Milk Prices
May 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment
As food and fuel prices continue to rise faster than they have in decades, the USDA decided now was a good time to raise milk prices. In response, the International Dairy Foods Association issued the statement below which, in my opinion, most Americans could have been summed up in far fewer words (i.e., “What in [...]
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Texas Governor Makes Right Call on Ethanol
April 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment
At last, a prominent politician has called for an end to — or, at a minimum, a temporary halt to — the insanity that surrounds the push for corn ethanol. That word comes, according to a news release today, from the people at the National Chicken Council: Texas Governor Rick Perry is to be congratulated [...]
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Wow! Blogger Agrees with Environmentalists
April 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Today marks a rare occasion when I find myself in agreement with anything touted by hard-core environmentalists like Lester Brown, Ken Cook and Jonathan Lewis. I find myself in partial agreement with the men from “Greenville,” all of whom were invited by the Grocery Manufacturers Association to come to share their views on biofuels with [...]
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Soaring Food Prices Could Lead to Social Unrest
April 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment
The words below should hit home with anyone who’s made a trip to the supermarket recently: “As financial markets have tumbled, food prices have soared. Since 2005, the prices of staples have jumped 80 percent. Last month, the real price of rice hit a 19-year high; the real price of wheat rose to a 28-year [...]
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