Friday, April 11, 2014

THE TEA PARTY ECONOMIST 04/11/2014

Video: Did You Know Harry Reid Has A Koch Addiction?
For over a month, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been obsessed with the Koch brothers. He condemns them on the senate floor on a daily basis. So, how many times has the strangely-obsessed Reid mentioned the evil conservative billionaire brothers? Thanks to our good friends at Washington Free Beacon, we now have the answer: […] READ MORE


Serious Online Security Breach Has Been Found, “Heartbleed” Widespread Problem
You know the lock icon that pops up next to URLs to tell you a website will keep your information safe? It turns out it has actually left your private data unsecured for more than two years. Websites encrypt your information, like emails, passwords and credit card numbers, so if anyone tries to snoop, they […] READ MORE

Schools Not Insulated From Violent Attacks, Despite Rules And Weapon Bans
As I rolled down my driveway and pulled onto the street Wednesday morning I turned the radio up and took a sip of coffee. A song was coming to an end as I reached to change the channel, knowing that I needed some music to get the blood pumping through my veins. The voice of […] READ MORE


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in early March and reached a general consensus that the 6.5% unemployment rate threshold for the first rate hike was outdated, the central bank said Wednesday.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

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