During the first meeting of the 12-member pension advisory board, one member, Alicia Munnell, who is the director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, predictably said: I don’t think the private sector is what we want to emulate. I strongly believe that because what you have seen in the private pension system […]
Archives for July 2011
Senator Mike Lee: Cut Cap Balance
Mike Lee was the first Senator to sign the Cut Cap Balance pledge to support balancing the federal budget and decreasing the size of government. The pledge reads: I pledge to urge my Senators and Member of the House of Representatives to oppose any debt limit increase unless all three of the following conditions have […]
SEIU Thugs Not Guilty?
“Ken Gladney is the black man who was beaten by two SEIU members outside a town hall event back in 2009. The event was held by Democrat Russ Carnahan, who made sure to have plenty of union muscle handy to pack the auditorium, and maintain the proper ‘atmosphere’ outside. The beating was captured on videotape, […]
Trophy: Active Protection System (APS)
Source: Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Ltd. The ASPRO-A (Trophy) active protection system rapidly detects and tracks any anti-tank threat, classifies it, estimates the optimal intercept point in space and finally neutralizes it away from the platform using a countermeasure.
Pill Popping Chickens – No Thanks
Administering drugs to chickens, even so-called “free range” chickens is not uncommon. As Dick Young noted on this website when he wrote Wow! Free Range Chickens, “It is clear that most free-range chickens are loaded with antibiotics and growth-promoting drugs. Talk about a festering stewpot. Feed these top-heavy, sad birds a crummy diet of industrial food and animal by-products and you may as well be dining on field rats. No thanks.”
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Gov. Hurts
According to a Wall Street Journal analysis, a 2006 law allowing companies to automatically enroll employees into a 401(k) was intended to encourage them to save for retirement. But instead of encouraging employees to save more, the law is having the opposite effect. This type of auto-enrollment policy was popularized by Cass Sunstein, a Chicago University Law […]
Another Revolution
Ted Nugent, rock n’ roller and author, recently took the time to imagine what Thomas Jefferson would be thinking of the political situation on July 4, 2011. Nugent writes, “Jefferson would not be celebrating our independence, but rather encouraging Americans to revolt once again.” Nugent goes on to say that “Our federal government is more […]
Iraq For Sale
Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers is the story of what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war.
The Best Lobster in America, Eat in or Ship Home
Lucky You! Debbie and I have traveled over 100,000 miles on our Harleys, and a lot of those miles have been on the East Coast, often on the search for the best country inns and specialty eats, including lobster. Well, in the two decades on the road, we have never deviated from our vote for […]
