Nov 17 2009

California, the 54th State, Creating or Saving Lots of Jobs!

According to the Recovery.gov website, California — with its 101 congressional districts — has created or saved a total of 110,185 jobs since the Obamic stimulus bill passed.
Oddly, other, less reliable sources report that “the state has lost 732,700 jobs over the last year.”
And those same other sources also seem to be under the impression [...]

Aug 27 2009

Everybody Get His Camera Ready

In today’s Gallup daily tracking poll (three-day rolling average) — Gallup! — President Barack H. Obama now sits on a job-approval of a bare 50%, having plummeted from 69% approval on January 22-24 (released on January 25th), a few days after he was inaugurated. He has dropped 19 points in 214 days of tracking-poll [...]

Jun 21 2009

A secret kept by the Times

Today the New York Times reports that its David Rohde had been kidnapped and held by the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan over the past seven months. Why did the Times sit on this story? The Times states: “Until now, the kidnapping has been kept quiet by The Times and other media organizations [...]