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Private Enterprise Outshines Bloated Government

As Democrats in Wisconsin and Indiana see their potential kickback money train in jeopardy, some are fleeing their states in a vain attempt to stave off the inevitable. While unscrupulous unions and bloated government bureacracies strangle economies and bleed taxpayers dry, private enterprise is showing how it’s done when left alone.

Dallas based Holly Corp. is buying out Houston based Frontier Oil for 2.8 billion in shares. The company will now be known as HollyFrontier and operate five refineries in the United States. The key is that those refineries will be here, and the cost will be significantly cheaper than getting oil from abroad. They will have a 440,000 barrel a day capacity. Not that they will be allowed to produce that much, but they would have the means.

The company gets its oil from local sources and from Canada. That fact softens the impact of the kind of events we see in Libya right now. Ghadaffi is ordering pipelines to be blown up there. What do you think happens to the price of oil? It’s already jumped, just on the rumor. HollyFrontier won’t have to worry about that. Continue reading Private Enterprise Outshines Bloated Government



Gas Prices Skyrocketing

Most analysts predict gas to go to $4 per gallon this year (guaranteed in California). So what is the cause? Middle East unrest? Decreased oil production? Shortages? How about Fear and uncertainty fueled by the Obama agenda.

Speculators are like scared lambs. With millions of dollars on the line daily, any kind of potentially disruptive world event can affect oil prices. We saw that with the Egyptian situation. Prices spiked on fears that the Suez Canal could be compromised. We saw it with the BP oil spill last year. We saw it once again with the illegal moratorium imposed on drilling in the gulf. At least the libs are happy with Egyptian events for the time being. Life is starting to return to normal along the gulf coast. A judge has ruled that Obama had better get his hands off those rigs in the gulf. Yet prices are rising. Continue reading Gas Prices Skyrocketing



New Obama Budget a Disaster

Barack Obama has lied the last two years about raising taxes. In fact, he’s bragged that he’s actually lowered taxes. Whoever put together this budget for him (c’mon, this guy has never even run a lemonade stand), will annoint him king of the tax raisers.

Obama’s new budget is out, and it is as horrible as could be expected from the socialist in chief. A whopping $3.7 trillion, which is a massive increase in spending. Yes, he’s saying that spending is being frozen in places, while subtle reductions are occurring elsewhere in the budget. But as Paul Ryan pointed out, Obama is using the baseline of the stimulus money added to the budget as his starting point for freezing spending. Continue reading New Obama Budget a Disaster



Fuzzy Math: January Job Numbers

Maybe it’s just me, and I’m looking at the numbers all wrong, but the January job figures don’t look as rosy as the Obama regime and their MSM puppets might have you think. If you believe the figures for last month, the economy is taking off.

Unemployment suddenly fell from 9.8 percent to an even nine in just a few months, the fastest decline in unemployment in more than 50 years. According to government figures a half million people found work last month. That’s just great. But let’s take a closer look at those numbers.

The service sector (Do you want fries with that burger?) and manufacturing (the jobs that immigrants flock to), are booming. However, big companies aren’t hiring. Not in the United States anyway, but we know they’re hiring in places like China. Just ask Hu Jintao. Company payrolls showed a gain of a paltry 36,000 jobs last month. On the other hand, those that describe themselves as self-employed rose by 165,000.

Okay, let’s do a little math here. A half million people found work. 36,000 on payroll, and 165,000 self employed. That leaves 299,000 that found work…where? Did I miss something? I’m not doubting the 165,000 number. Americans will make due when they have to. Part of the greatness of this country. That still doesn’t explain the contention that a half million folks are back at work. However, the article referenced did give us a clue as to why the unemployment rate dropped. And it isn’t because all those folks found work. Continue reading Fuzzy Math: January Job Numbers



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Not sure what part of the Alinsky bible this tactic comes from. The line that defines right wing becomes more blurred every day. Apparently, the new definition applies to anyone that opposes anything the government has ever done, is doing,Right Wing Extremists Around Every Corner?

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The sovereignty of the United States is under relentless attack, but if you happen to be on the other side of the world you need to be a little creative to participate. If you aren't on the border of theBirth Tourism On The Rise

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I once posed the question, Who is really running the world? I mean economically. All the politicians can do is give us the TSA treatment while searching for our wallets, but when it comes to multi-national corporations, somebody else isNew Brazilian President a Marxist Thug

Yet Eric Holder wants to give KSM a stage in New York, panty bomber is being treated like an American citizen, Obama is reaching out to those that would bite his hand off, and the borders remain wide open inHelpless CIA Warns Of Impending al Qaeda Attack

Just barely though, and if absentee voting laws aren't changed soon, it may be open season on the American electoral system.Lost in the historic pounding delivered to the Obama agenda on Tuesday were some local measures that would make anotherNon-Citizen Voter Measures Go Up in Flames

Try and fathom the logic here. Obamacare isn't being opposed because it's too horrible, but because it's not horrible enough. How can this thing be any worse than it already is? Ask the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.The CHC, an ethno-centric congressionalAmnesty Thugs Oppose Obamacare

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Barack Obama's strategy in Libya is so convoluted, so bumbling, that even kooks like Dennis Kucinich are balking, even going so far as to suggest impeachment. Obama decided not to consult congress before making a fool of himself, and theLibyan "Rebels" May Be al-Qaida

Has America awakened? If the polls are any indication, she's starting to. And when this sleeping giant is fully awake, Barack Obama may become the lamest of ducks. All polls (except the obviously skewed ones) have shown the same thing:Obama's Popularity Circling The Drain

They tried to slip this lie through and got caught. They're going to play it out anyway.When the White House was first caught making phony claims of job creation and job preservation, they vigorously defended their numbers, even though anybodyStimulus Jobs Saved Lie In Overdrive

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With a thrill down his leg, Chris Matthews of MSNBC did the only thing he could do when confronted with the specter of America balking at the policies of his messiah: He played the race card.Matthews invited the Wall StreetChris Matthews Race Baits On MSNBC

Hugo Chavez. Kim Jong Il. Ahmadinejad of Iran. Barack Obama. Do you think those cartoons are running countries? They aren't and I'll give you an example of just how impossible it would be.Brazil just elected a congressman on Thursday whoWho Really Runs The World?

So now Obama taps a hardcore Muslim to retrieve marching orders from other hardcore Muslims. We already know that he surrendered in the war on terror when he declared that there was no war, but that might not necessarily beObama Appoints Hardcore Muslim As Envoy

I know, I know, there are two things that can be fatal to a blog: poor content, and moving a blog. WordPress is having substantial problems with their blog stats, and although I will give them a little more timeWordPress Stat Problems May Force A Move

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Thus far, the left has dictated what the core issues have been for Republican presidential candidates this season. It has worked out even better than planned, with Republicans going off the rails on their own and saving Barack Obama fromIssa Exposes Napolitano on Phony Border Numbers

Even in the darkest, most absurd days of the Bush administration, I never heard this kind of hate coming from the right. Then again, we're talking about two different kinds of people.Though I didn't see the program (I never do),Of Olbermann, Murder, Playboy And Rape

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As he has a tendency to do with foreign leaders, and he's going to give America a kick in the shins while he's at it. Not only is he not going to do anything to stop the rise of ChinaObama Bows to Hu Jintao

Considering that this opportunist will probably be bounced out of office in 2010, you would think that he would be changing his tune. Unless ACORN told him something we don't know about, his rhetoric doesn't make much sense.Arlen Specter appearedArlen Specter, The Condescending Dolt

He's an open borders traitor. He's hung around with the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Al Sharpton. The Republicans ran him out of town when he was speaker of the house. He's made boneheaded statements and even more boneheaded endorsements.Gingrich Wants John Bolton In His Cabinet

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They shot the bull for 7 hours, absolutely nothing was accomplished, and the Democrats are going ahead with their plan without the GOP...or the American people.Everyone knew this would be a circus and it did not disappoint. If anyone stillHealth Care Summit A Sham As Expected

Let's look at reality folks, the United States is about the only country in the world that's still pretending this guy is a Christian. Remember, when he said change we can believe in during the campaign, he didn't articulate whatThe Obama Dream: United States of Sharia

And the post racial sack of crap continues to stink up America. How can you make racist comments and bitch slap your own race at the same time? Rich Sanchez of CNN pulled it off.The running joke that is RickCNN's Rick Sanchez Race Baits On Twitter

Darrell Issa is a busy man, and now he's asking the American people directly to assist him. He wants to know from businesses around the country what Washington is doing to hold them back. He should get plenty of responses.Issa,Darrell Issa Enlists the Help of the American People

Fiddling while Fannie Mae burned wasn't enough for this kleptomaniac. Now he wants to steal TARP money he isn't legally entitled to do.Some companies have paid back the TARP money. How they managed that is another post. Most have notBarney Frank Looks To Steal TARP Money

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This couldn't have worked out better for Barack Obama if he had planned this himself. Then again, he may have done just that.With the Southern border of the United States wide open , the drug cartels in Mexico are engagedObama, Mexican Cartels Defacto Partners

Uh, huh. We're right back to square one. Is Bin Laden dead or not? The evidence may be sitting on the desk of Barack Obama this very moment. We won't see it though. Then again, it isn't October 2012 yet,Obama Denies Closure for America

While Mexican drug cartels bum rush the border, killing everything that gets in their way and drugging anything that survives, the gun running Obama regime is fighting like a wild animal to make sure individual states do nothing to stopSouth Carolina Immigration Law Under Attack

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