Posts Tagged ‘alabama’
Forbes Magazine just ran a rather awesome, if not damning, article. I loved it. It listed the states where there are more “takers” vs “makers”. And, it very quickly condemned those states, as well as advising anyone investing to steer clear of those states. One of them, being my own. They chide those states for [...]
Tags: alabama, california, death spiral state, Entitlement Programs, forbes, hawaii, illinois, kentucky, maine, makers, Mississippi, New Mexico, new york, ohio, south-carolina, takers
Posted in 2012 Presidential Race, economic-policy, Entitlement Programs, Legislative Process, National Debt, National Politics | No Comments »
August 31st, 2010 | 1 Comment
Dutch Question 2 Men Arrested on Terror Suspicion on Flight From Chicago to Amsterdam Dutch investigators on Tuesday questioned two Detroit-area men arrested at Amsterdam’s airport after U.S. authorities found suspicious items in their checked luggage, including a cell phone taped to a Pepto-Bismol bottle and a knife and box cutter. The pair were arrested [...]
Tags: 9/11, Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al Soofi, alabama, amsterdam, birminghman, box cutter, cell phone, detroit, flight, flight 11, foxnews, Hezam al Murisi, IED, michigan, source, Yemen
Posted in National Security, terrorism | 1 Comment »
Somali pirates on Wednesday hijacked a U.S.-flagged cargo ship with at least 20 American crew members aboard, FOX News has learned. A Kenya-based diplomat identified the vessel as the 17,000-ton Maersk Alabama and told the Associated Press all crew members are American. The diplomat spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to [...]
Tags: alabama, Islam, maersk, muslim, obama, pirate, somalia, sunni
Posted in International Issues, National Security | No Comments »
February 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment
Just got the numbers for the Medicaid add-on from the stimulus package. I don’t deal with Medicaid directly, but it indirectly affects what I do in a large way. As such, I was interested in the numbers. However, the bigger picture bugged me more than the dollars I was assigned to look at. In essence, [...]
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Posted in Entitlement Programs, Ethics, Health Care Debate, National Politics, Politics | 1 Comment »
WSFA is reporting that Birmgingham, Alabama mayor Larry Langford has been arrested by the FBI on some pretty serious charges. At this point CNN nor MSNBC feel it’s a story worth printing. If you read the local story, it’s pretty lengthy. It gets into what the background of the investigation is, who’s involved, and some [...]
Tags: alabama, birmingham, cnn, culture of corruption, democrat party, fbi, keith-olbermann, larry langford, mayor, msnbc, nancy pelosi, ted-stevens, william jefferson, wsfa
Posted in Ethics, media bias | No Comments »
Barack Obama’s campaign has been all about “change“. However, one thing seems bound not to change if Obama is elected. Whereas we’ve had to deal with nucular, internets, and global warmings, now we’ll get muddled facts instead of words: Marking the anniversary of the March 1965 “Bloody Sunday” in Selma, Ala., Obama, speaking at a [...]
Tags: 57 states, alabama, anti-immigrant, anti-trade, antipathy, auschwitz, barack obama, bitter, bushism, cnn, eleven, fallen, germany, grandfather, guns, hero, kansas, larry king, memorial, poland, religion, richmond, russia, selma, sixth sense, ten thousand, treblinka, uncle, virginia
Posted in 2008 Presidential Race, Media | 2 Comments »