List/Grid Author Archives: SoundOffSister
Fair?
President Obama speaks frequently of “fairness”, and will beat that drum constantly during the upcoming election. This article appeared in today”s Wall Street Journal, and it is an absolute must…
You are the President’s economic advisor
Last week, the Congressional Budget Office issued its annual review of budget projections for the next ten years. It should come as no surprise that the report is dismal. Serious…
Why jobs leave this country…or return
On Friday, Caterpillar announced the closing of a locomotive plant in Ontario, Canada. The plant had been the site of a weeks long lockout over wages and benefits. To remain…
The case of the dead birds
Some 94 years ago Congress passed the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Pretty much any bird that moves from one place to another is covered by the law. As we told…
Green energy irony
This from CBS News, Los Angeles…it seems that an energy efficient window is melting the plastic parts on an energy efficient Prius.
Obama gives Catholics one more year to change a fundamental belief
The audacity of a ruling of this type could only come from the Obama administration.
The Indiana union standoff continues
We told you earlier about a bill pending in the Indiana legislature that would make Indiana a “right to work” state. Should the bill pass, unions will not be banned from…
And, I don’t like nuclear power either
Last week, without much media attention, President Obama, this time via Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, put the nix on certain uranium mining on federal lands in northern Arizona. Sadly,…
More political pandering…the Keystone Pipeline
Today, President Obama killed the Keystone XL Pipeline. That project would have brought 700,000 barrels of crude oil a day from Canada to our gulf coast refineries to be processed. And…
The Fannie and Freddie political football
For reasons known only to me, I have been following the attacks launched by the Democrats against Edward DeMarco. In 2008 he was appointed to head the newly created Federal…
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