Watched Piers Morgan again last night. (OK, OK we promise we are going to stop...) As he badgered another anti-gun control guest two things struck us. First, he is doing this to gin up his dismal ratings. Second, the model he is using is Chris Matthews: Ask a question and then talk over the answer; Repeat. Matthews must be flattered on the one hand, but also concerned that the tiny pool of Liberal viewers is not big enough to sustain them both.
Independence
During her two-plus years in business, Elizabeth Turley has steadily recruited new employees for her apparel company, Meesh & Mia Corp., to keep pace with its rapid growth. But this year could be different. Instead of increasing her staff, she plans to hire independent contractors for tasks that can be outsourced, such as marketing and product development.
Her reason? Meesh & Mia is on the cusp of having 50 full-time employees. If the company hits that threshold, it will have to provide health coverage that meets government standards or potentially pay a penalty. (WSJ, 1/16/2013)
We love the creativity of modern small business capitalists when faced with the Big Brother regulations of the federal government, but we have to wonder if this is what Obama and the Dems anticipated when they gifted us with Obamacare.
As If
As of his first inaugural, 134.379 million Americans were working and unemployment was 7.3%. Four years later, 134.021 million are working and unemployment is 7.8%.
In January 2009, 32.2 million people were on food stamps and 13.2% of Americans lived in poverty. Now, 47.5 million receive food stamps and the poverty rate is up to 15%. (Karl Rove, WSJ, 1/16/2013)
Rove is still in our doghouse, but his analysis is spot-on. Obama - the president who did not deserve to be re-elected but was anyway - has driven the country backwards.
Crisis Management
The agents aren’t there to protect the children from random mass shootings, but to prevent the national crisis that would occur if the commander in chief’s offspring were taken hostage. (Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 1/17/2013)
The Washington Post's Dana Milbank writes a column that can honestly be called an attempt to be fair to both sides on the issue of using children as political pawns in the gun debate. He calls out Obama for using children and also rebukes the NRA for an ad that calls Obama a hypocrite because his daughters get armed Secret Service protection. What caught our attention was the line above which claims the First Daughters only get such protection to forestall someone who wanted to kidnap them. Really? If an armed intruder enter the school with the objective of murder rather than kidnapping, the Secret Service would not intervene? It's typical Liberal logic: illogical.
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