Posts Tagged ‘Maryland’
I kid you not: WHDH-TV – When his teacher saw his strawberry tart… “She was pretty mad, and I think I was in big trouble,” said Josh Welch. Then josh’s dad was called. “And she said that they had to suspend josh for two days because he used his breakfast pastry and fashioned it as [...]
Tags: baltimore, elementary, idiot, josh, Maryland, park, pistol, Political Correctness, strawberry, tart
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Within one day after President Obama was sworn in for his second term, Harry Reid was putting in motion the vote to eliminate most filibusters. Here is the list of the Senators that think this is such a good idea they chose to co-sponsor it: Sen Baldwin, Tammy [WI] – 1/22/2013 Sen Begich, Mark [AK] [...]
Tags: 4, alaska, Amy Klobuchar, angus king, Barbara-Mikulski, bernard sanders, bernie, biden, brian schatz, change, christopher murphy, Connecticut, elizabeth warren, filibuster, hawaii, hope, iowa, jeanne shaheen, Jeff Merkley, Jon Tester, Kirsten Gillibrand, maine, mark begich, mark warner, Martin Heinrich, Maryland, Minnesota, montana, Nevada, new jersey, New Mexico, new york, new-hampshire, obama, oregon, reid, resolution, rhode-island, Robert-Menendez, Senate, Sheldon Whitehouse, tammy-baldwin, Tom-Harkin, vermont, virginia, Wisconsin
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That’s the AP headline this morning. AP Impact: US-Mexico border isn’t so dangerous MEXICO CITY — It’s one of the safest parts of America, and it’s getting safer. It’s the U.S.-Mexico border, and even as politicians say more federal troops are needed to fight rising violence, government data obtained by The Associated Press show it [...]
Tags: Arkansas, baltimore, border, california, cartel, charleston, crime, Derechos Humanos, detroit, drugs, florida, Isabel Garcia, las-vegas, little rock, Martha Mendoza, Maryland, memphis, mexico, mexico city, miami, michigan, murder, nashville, Nevada, nuevo leon, orlando, safe, south-carolina, stockton, Tennessee, united states, violence
Posted in Border Control, media bias | 2 Comments »
Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) , Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), and Jim Webb (D-Va.), all joined forces to secure $2,000,000 for the oyster recovery program in the Chesapeake Boy. I’m assuming the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science has something to do with this. From their page: When Captain John Smith first arrived in the Chesapeake [...]
Tags: dc, district-of-columbia, elizabethan, england, jamestown, john smith, Maryland, oyster recovery program. chesapeake bay, pearls, pocahontas, powhaten, swamp, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, virginia, washington
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OK, so we’re no sooner finishing Obama’s reform of the housing, banking, and automakers industries, than we’re apparently ready to do the same to the energy industry. Now, as with the other situati0ns, you’ve got two very different prevailing thoughts going apparently. On one side, is the keep it simple philosophy. In the other debates, [...]
Tags: california, cap and trade, carbon credit, cost, environmentalist, global warming, henry-waxman, heritage foundation, kentucky district of columbia, Maryland, obama, Utah
Posted in economic-policy, Fed Policy | 1 Comment »
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 »
One of Obama’s first actions is to restore the auto emissions waivers for several states that requested them under Bush. Bush said no, because mainly they were unenforceable. Those states include: California Connecticut Maine Maryland Massachusetts New Jersey New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Vermont Washington Now, the issue I have would be better reflected [...]
Tags: california, Connecticut, emissions, EPA, maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, new jersey, new york, oregon, Pennsylvania, rhode-island, vermont, waiver, washington
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