Yearly Archives
2012
Americans overwhelming cites jobs as top issue
A new Gallup poll finds Americans name jobs and the economy as the nation’s most pressing problems. Thirty-one percent (31%) say “the economy” is “the most important problem facing this country today.” The second most pressing issue is “jobs,” coming in at 26 percent. Combined, 57 percent of Americans cite jobs or the economy as […]
Read moreObama shatters ‘no middle class tax hike’ promise with $600B ObamaCare tax
“Health care should never be purchased with tax increases on middle class families.” That was candidate Barack Obama on October 4, 2008. Back then Obama opposed the individual mandate because it was a freedom-busting, multi-billion dollar tax increase paid directly to massive corporations. But now Obama is a champion of his $600 billion middle class […]
Read moreSupreme Court upholds Republican-created individual mandate
The individual mandate forcing Americans to buy health insurance or be taxed, an originally Republican idea proposed by a Republican-allied think tank and championed by Republican politicians until 2008, was upheld today in a 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court ruling approved and rubber-stamped by a Republican-appointed Chief Justice. The individual mandate is a Republican-conceived, Republican-born, and […]
Read moreMove to cell phones has campaigns moving back to door-to-door
Republicans and Democrats are beginning to discover what Libertarians knew long ago – door to door campaigning is still the most effective form of campaigning. Their top concern is polling. As more voters ditch publicly-listed landlines for unlisted cell phones polling firms are finding it harder to collect representative samples. “I actually think we’ll go […]
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