Just four days before Election Day the last jobs report of the campaign was released indicating an increase in the unemployment rate to 7.9 percent. The report detailed 171,000 new jobs created at the same time that the number of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The current strategy by the Obama campaign to combat the weak performance of their candidate in the debate this past week is to call Mitt Romney a liar. Had Mr. Romney or his campaign minions been making the Sunday talk […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Live From Charlotte, North Carolina, It’s Barry Ooooooobama! As I explained in the story Obama team to create fake crowds at acceptance speech, the campaign was having a difficult time finding 60,000 people to fill the Bank of America Stadium […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

If you believe the unemployment rate is actually approaching the eight percent claimed in recent Bureau of Labor Statistics reports then you’ve bought into one of the greatest works of American fiction. The government’s numbers game is akin to saying […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you ignore bad news, good news look a lot better; such is the story with the news media’s glowing reports of the unemployment rate dropping from 9.0 to 8.6 percent. Beneath the new unemployment numbers you’ll find a story […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The political side-show in DC continued tonight as the Senate failed to pass a procedural vote to move forward the president’s “jobs” bill. While the bill garnered all but 2 Democrat votes, many more stated they would oppose the bill […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Whitehouse is touting the fact that the unemployment rate just dropped to 9.0%. What great news, if only it were true. Funny how facts and figures seem to get in the way of the folks in DC. Here’s […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So today the government touted the fact that the U.S. jobless rate fell to 9.4 percent in December, the lowest level in 19 months. The economy added 103,000 jobs last month, after producing 71,000 in November. Sounds good, doesn’t it? Unfortunately most analysts […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives started their session by reading the Constitution. Even though several Democrats participated, a large number of Democrats protested that reading the Constitution as a waste of time. They stated that wasting the time while […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…