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Filed under: 2010 Elections, Barack Obama, Ben Nelson, Congress, Joe Biden, Marco Rubio, Martha Coakley, Nancy Pelosi, Obamacare, Polls, Scott Brown | No Comments »
Think we had ethic reform on Louisiana? New day of transparency? Sorry, but public deception is still happening in Baton Rouge. In an e-mail update to the members of Legislative Action Watch (LAW) on Thursday, I said the following: Subject: LA House: Early Release of Old Non-Violent Offenders, Bad; Early Release of Violent Offenders, Ok [...]
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Today a group of investors defrauded by the Stanford Financial Group Ponzi scheme, which cost some 1,500 Louisianians $3 billion in losses, sent a letter to U.S. Rep Charlie Melancon excoriating him for statements he made in an interview with WWL – an interview the Democrat U.S. Senate candidate undoubtedly regrets…
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As the national debt swells to unsustainable levels and federal spending continues unchecked, the folks who gave us our huge financial problems are casting about for a “solution.” One candidate likely to be proposed by the “spend more but don’t cut” crowd is the value added tax (VAT). The VAT is a European creation designed [...]
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“You have been an incredibly successful governor, and I know your style of common-sense conservatism will serve the people of Florida well in the Senate and is exactly what the national Republican Party needs.” – Sen. Lindsey Graham (RINO-SC) on Florida Gov. Charlie Crist “I don’t agree with the notion that we shouldn’t do anything. [...]
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from a release by Gov. Bobby Jindal’s office. Seems like something of a contrast from the last time an emergency situation sprang up out of the Gulf and threatened Louisiana at the mouth of the Mississippi… BATON ROUGE – Today, Governor Bobby Jindal sent the following letters to the Secretaries of the Department of Defense [...]
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from a press release by Gov. Bobby Jindal’s office: Governor Bobby Jindal held a press conference today to offer updates on the oil spill in the Gulf and continued to push BP and the U.S. Coast Guard to bring every resource they have to bear to protect Louisiana’s coast from the oil leak, which is [...]
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We’re working on a few angles to this story our readers probably haven’t seen, but we have every reason to stand by our story yesterday comparing the Gulf oil spill to Hurricane Katrina as a disastrous chance event made infinitely worse by stupid government policy. In the meantime, the spill is getting worse, and the [...]
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The current edition of Energy Tech, an independent publisher for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Power Division, features an article discussing a “hybrid” electrical generating facility consisting of both nuclear and coal gasification technologies to generate electricity, resulting in lower costs and higher efficiencies, and of course, the ever important “smaller carbon footprint.” To greatly [...]
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First, a little music to set the tone:
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