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EPA air permit rejections put jobs at risk, Perry says | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
AUSTIN — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday invalidated the air quality permits of 122 plants across Texas, throwing out one of the state’s key environmental permitting processes.
It’s all a matter of control.
Funny how a […]

Change We Can Believe In!!

Oil Spill Timeline from RightChange on Vimeo.

Gee, Maybe That’s Why They Are Against Job-Killing Taxes?

With No Jobs, Plenty of Time for Tea Party - NYTimes.com
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — When Tom Grimes lost his job as a financial consultant 15 months ago, he called his congressman, a Democrat, for help getting government health care.Then he found a new full-time occupation: Tea Party activist.In the last year, he has organized […]

There Has To Be Some Control Or Just Anyone Could Get Into Public Schools

Obama’s SecEd manipulated school lists to favor powerful
Chicago Breaking News reported late last night that former Chicago schools chief and current Secretary of Education Arne Duncan manipulated a system to favor powerful political allies by placing their children in the schools of their choice. The discovery of a list, the existence of which […]

The Morning After


Neal Boortz - What Happens Next

Neal Boortz runs down what he sees happening in the next few years.
GAME OVER … LET ME TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
This will be somewhat of a “stream of consciousness” effort … but here’s the way I see this playing out over the coming years.
Taxes, of course, go up immediately. How much in new taxes? […]

The Chicago Way - Nuance My Ass

White House prepares to unveil ‘High Road’ contracting policy
Multiple sources say the White House could unveil its new ‘High Road’ contracting policy as early as this month in response to the recent spate of media reports. The proposal would leverage federal contracting to raise wages and support unionized companies, a significant shift from the […]

Our Upside Down Economy

Battle lines sharpen as Oregon election season nears | - Oregonlive.com
Democrats are defending supermajorities in both legislative chambers that give them the three-fifths vote needed to raise taxes and that ensure they can pass almost all of their priority bills, even over determined Republican opposition. Democrats also hope to hold a governor’s seat that has […]

BOHICA*

J.C. WATTS: The mother of all bailouts to come - Opinion - ReviewJournal.com
This so-called “reform” and “consumer protection” legislation authorizes a $4 trillion bailout fund for Wall Street. That is more money than President Obama’s 2011 budget ($3.8 trillion), the gross domestic product of Germany ($3.7 trillion), and between five and six times the amount […]

When The Nanny State Is Just Not Big Enough!

H.R. 4601: To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish the Office of the National Nurse (GovTrack.us)
Text is not available, but this just sounds like a pretty bad idea. I know there is a nurse shortage, but I doubt whether a Federal bureaucracy is going to take care of that.
It just seem to Nanny […]