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With ‘Cash for Clunkers’ Costing Taxpayers $24K Per Vehicle, How Much Will ObamaCare Cost Us?

October 29th, 2009 · No Comments

Visit the federal government web site for the recently-concluded “Cash for Clunkers” program and you’ll find the program described as “enormously successful” (see graphic above).  Contrary to that claim, however, Edmunds.com research revealed yesterday that the program, which enabled a car buyer to pay as much as $4,500 less for a new vehicle, actually cost [...]

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Taxpayers Footing Bill for Free Phone Service

October 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment

While driving home from the airport tonight, I was listening to The Dana Show on 97.1 FM Talk in St. Louis and heard conservative talk show host Dana Loesch expressing her disgust about a free, government-support phone service for people on the public dole.  Then, as soon as I got home, I found an e-mail [...]

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Voters Offered Tips to Profit from ‘House Flipping’

October 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments

With unemployment rates climbing, the bankruptcy rate soaring and federal spending out of control like never before, I felt it appropriate to revisit the practice known as “house flipping” and share 10 truths Americans can use to realize long-term profits from the practice.  Instead of focusing on private real estate, however, these truths focus on [...]

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D.C. Tea Party Photos Tell the Real Story

September 12th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Because we can no longer count on members of the mainstream news media to tell the real story about today’s Tea Party in Washington, D.C., we must turn to those from within the Take-Back-America Movement — people like El Marco.  Above and below are some of the excellent photos he shot on scene.  Click to [...]

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Tea Party Draws 1.5 Million to Nation’s Capitol (Update: 2 Million)

September 12th, 2009 · 2 Comments

A speaker at the Tea Party in Washington, D.C., said an ABC reporter estimated 1.5 million people in attendance.  Judging by the photo above from Shane Vanderhart at Caffeinated Thoughts Darren Labrum I think that might be low.
See also: Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit reports that 12,000 people descended on Quincy, Ill., today for the [...]

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