Just as he promised he would do if the United States rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, Prime Minister Stephen Harper headed to Beijing earlier this week on a four-day trade mission in which he is expected to seek a deal to sell millions of barrels of Canadian oil to China. Since China is aggressively pursuing energy deals around the world to support its economic expansion, expect Harper to come home with an official signature on the dotted line. read more
President Obama's proposed 2013 budget will forecast a $901 billion deficit for next year, falling far short of his goal to halve the deficit in four years.
The budget, an outline of which was released by the White House Friday night, will show a higher deficit this year than in 2011, up from $1.3 trillion to $1.33 trillion. read more
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Those who greet customers at the entrance of Walmart stores nationwide are uneasy about a change in their duties.
Greeters no longer man the front doors during the 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift at the stores, and this month they were moved deeper into the stores to help shoppers find what they're looking for and navigate the aisles.
"They'll still greet. That's still an essential part of their position," Walmart spokeswoman Ashley Hardie told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. The move inside and the new duties were implemented in the past two weeks, and no positions were eliminated, Hardie said.
Aryeh Spero: More than any other nation, the United States was founded on broad themes of morality rooted in a specific religious perspective. We call this the Judeo-Christian ethos, and within it resides a ringing endorsement of capitalism as a moral endeavor. The Bible's proclamation that "Six days shall ye work" is its recognition that on a day-to-day basis work is the engine that brings about man's inner state of personal responsibility. Work develops the qualities of accountability and urgency, including the need for comity with others as a means for the accomplishment of tasks. With work, he becomes imbued with the knowledge that he is to be productive and that his well-being is not an entitlement. read more
"I predict that in the years ahead Enron, not Sept. 11, will come to be seen as the greater turning point in U.S. society." It's one of our all-time favorite quotes, and it was published 10 years ago this Sunday. As former Enron adviser Paul Krugman might say, this statement is false.
It was, of course, Krugman who wrote that statement, in his Jan. 29, 2002, New York Times column. read more
you can count on them conveniently ignoring the fact that their asinine claims lack evidence.
#30 | Posted by Dr_Iceprick at 2012-02-13 10:46 AM | Reply | Flag
"If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear"
--Matthew 11:15
And then there are those who ignore all the evidence because it does not comport with their asinine beliefs.