Thursday, April 10, 2014

THE TEA PARTY ECONOMIST 04/10/2014

Oops! Democrat’s Staff Sent Emails To IRS About Targeting
If you’ve paid even a modicum of attention to the House Oversight Committee hearings on the IRS scandal, you know that Ranking Member Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) has insisted from the beginning that the Republican-led investigation has been little more than a witch hunt. Cummings has been accused of virtually running cover for the White […] READ MORE

Air Force Museum Security Uses Excessive Force Against A Grandmother
A family says they continue to be haunted after they were pulled over and held at gunpoint by military police following a Friday visit to an Ohio Air Force museum. According to Alice Hill, her grandson was studying the Wright brothers at school and wanted to see the plane on display at the National Museum […] READ MORE


FED Drops Unemployment Target Even Lower
Federal Reserve officials had a secret video conference call in early March and reached a general consensus that the 6.5% unemployment rate threshold for the first rate hike was outdated, the central bank said Wednesday. A summary of the video conference was included in the minutes of the Fed’s March 18-19 meeting released by the […] READ MORE


How Black Players Made It onto Southern NCAA Teams
Open entry is a powerful force. We see it in the free market. But we see it even more clearly in sports. Numbers trump color in sports: points on the scoreboard. In the free market, only two colors matter: black ink and red ink. Here, everyone wants black. THREE PHOTOS This is from the 1965-66 […] READ MORE

State of the Unions: Labor Statistics Across America
Union membership is declining across the board, across America. Check out this graph to see which areas are most affected and how the labor market is doing away with unionization.   READ MORE

Medicaid Population in U.S. Exceeds Population of Entire U.K.
The number of Americans who were enrolled in Medicaid at any time during fiscal 2013 exceeded the entire population of the United Kingdom, according to new data published by the federal government’s Medicaid and CHIP Payment Access Commission (MACPAC). Were Medicaid a nation instead of a U.S. entitlement program it would be the 20th most […] READ MORE

Which Of These Burglary Victims Would You Prefer To Be? It’s Easy.
According to the gun-grabbing left, no American needs a gun for self-defense ever, but one 83-year-old man is very happy he had a weapon to ward off an intruder to his Huntsville, Alabama home. From Alabama Media: According to a police report, the 83-year-old man said someone in a hooded sweatshirt came to his home […] READ MORE

European Quantitative Easing Hinges On… German Vacation Spending?
Whether or not the European Central Bank will take the quantitative-easing plunge is on the minds of investors around the world, including in the U.S. But in the end, the decision, or at least it’s timing, could revolve around German holiday-makers and the prices they pay for their spring vacations, argues Standard Bank’s Steven Barrow. […] READ MORE

Was This Teacher’s Altercation With A Student Out Of Line, Or A Good Move?
As shown in a viral video that flew through social media, California teacher and wrestling coach Mark Black took advantage of his takedown prowess during a classroom brawl to subdue a student he suspected was selling drugs. Black was put on temporary leave by Santa Monica High School pending the completion of an investigation. The […] READ MORE

Global Warming Guru Reverses Himself, Slams U.N. Report
(Special Report) Green guru and geophysicist James Lovelock, considered one of the pioneering scientists of the 20th century, has officially turned his back on man-made global warming claims and the green movement’s focus on renewable energy. Lovelock conceived the Gaia theory back in the 1970s, describing the Earth’s biosphere as “an active, adaptive control system able […] READ MORE

No comments:

Post a Comment