Daily Archives: March 13, 2010

03/13/10

Links To Visit – 03/13/10

USA Today – Tracking taxes: A look back at tax rates and spending (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

WND – Banished! City forbids Bible studies in homes (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Kim Priestap – The brilliance of Michael Ramirez

The Anchoress – Pratchett from 2004: “Too Big to Fail”

WND – State plan fines feds $2,000 over gun rules (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

The Economic Times – Earth under attack from an invisible star? (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Brutally Honest – “we in the press are bored with Barack”

Take A Stand Bumper Stickers – The Case for Impeachment (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Atlas Shrugs – Virginia Legislators Boycott Hate Imam

Atlas Shrugs – Outlaw President: Obama’s Justice Dept Shuts Down ACORN Investigation

Atlas Shrugs – Obama’s Private Youth Army: Recruiting 8-Year-Olds

The Sovereign Society – Sovereign: Elvis Presley’s Ultra-Secure, 2008 Passport? (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Sandy Rios – Texas and the Textbook Alamo

Stuff.co.nz – New Zealand’s internet filter goes live (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Brutally Honest – The difference between good guys and bad guys

Walter Williams – Is Health Care a Right? (Hat Tip: Kim Priestap)

IowaHawk – WH Sources: Help Us Rahm, You’re Our Only Hope (Hat Tip: Tom Elia) A must read… 🙂

Free Republic – [BREAKING] JAPAN MAINSTREAM “NIKKEI” NEWS CALLS OBAMA CANCELLING ASIA TRIP (VIA TWITTER) “INSULTING” (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

03/13/10

Financial News Updates – 03/13/10

STUPAK: ‘THEY JUST WANT THIS OVER’

VOTE NEXT WEEK!

Vegas jobless rate hits all-time high of 13.1%

SurvivalBlog:

Faber and Mish: We’re Doomed and Washington Can’t Do Anything About It

World faces a day of financial reckoning

Canadian dollar likely to trump US greenback: experts.

Four more banks bit the dust in the past couple of days.

OPEC Raises 2010 Oil Demand Forecast

US Sales Tax Rates Hit Record High

US Dollar Gains as Rating Agencies Warn on Europe

Toledo, Ohio Likely to Face “Fiscal Emergency”

Robbing The Old to Pay the Rich

Virginia State Police Help The Budget Crunch. This will probably become a nationwide practice.

First Iceland, Next The World

UK: New Credit Crunch Risk as Banks Face Funding Crisis

03/13/10

House Republicans Choose to Ban All Earmarks

From: Congressman Eric Cantor

Yesterday, Congressman Eric Cantor and the rest of the House Leadership announced that the House Republican Conference has banned all earmarks for its members this year.

In addressing the media after this historic vote, Congressman Cantor said that it is time to “demonstrate to the American people that we hear them, that we will continue to do everything we can to fix Washington so that it can start to work for the American people and not the other way around.”

Congressman Cantor is one of 41 Congressmen who had previously sworn off earmarks prior to yesterday’s actions.

This action by House Republicans takes effect immediately and includes all earmark requests in both authorization and appropriations bills. This differs from the half-hearted steps offered by Congressional Democrats who just hours earlier proposed prohibiting earmarks only to for-profit institutions.

Congressman Cantor continued, “We want to reform the way taxpayer dollars are spent.”

For Americans looking for leadership to fix Washington, House Republicans responded in a strong, decisive manner with today’s decision.