Eric Fry Why Bernanke’s attempts to fix the economy are only a façade By Eric Fry America has an economy that produces about $13 trillion of activity each year. America also has a Federal Reserve Chairman that produces about 13 trillion raised eyebrows each year. Last week, in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Bernanke raised...
TO: Council FROM: Mayor Jerry Gist DATE: August 30, 2010 RE: Council Update The Diamond property at the corner of Main and Liberty is now in the possession of the Downtown Revenue Finance Corporation. The RFC and the Jackson Downtown Development Corporation are exploring uses for the property. A park is being considered...
Dale Morton posted this on facebook this morning and I viewed it and smiled. Meadows curled up in my lap and Oliver in his recliner waiting for their walk.
Where is John Wayne when we need him? I could ask where are the Americans when we need them but I already know where they are - watching football, baseball, basketball, some reality show on TV or maybe Judge Judy or Oprah. Or, they might be in the fast food car lane to get...
A passport is the ultimate breeder document for almost everything that requires identification. Security is obviously critical. The U.S. government, along with most countries in the world, has embarked on programs to design a new generation of passports with “smart card” technology. But its just changed the tools of crime from color copy machines...
“The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.” Psalm 90:10 “Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day....
The decision by Congress to socialize medicine in the US ranks among the most draconian, most egregious, most horrific actions ever taken by the central government in Washington, D.C. This bill rocks the principles of liberty and constitutional government to the core. It changes fundamental foundations; it repudiates historical principle. Oh! The same flag...
Richard Nixon was not a crook, Michael Dukakis was not unpatriotic, and Barack Obama is not a Muslim. Unlike Nixon and Dukakis, Obama didn’t actually issue an explicit defensive denial; instead, as we noted yesterday, the president said through a spokesman that he “is obviously a Christian. He prays every day.” But NewsBusters.org reports...
http://www.businessinsider.com/treasuries-arent-supported-china-anymore-20-august-2010On August 19th I sent out a post with the subject of “The Asian Invasion”. It was out of Idaho and detailed how Idaho’s Governor and several Chambers of Commerce are pulling out all the stops in bringing Chinese businessmen and their families —AND money — to Buy up distressed businesses and if they...
It has long been my position that America and American military have NO BUSINESS INVADING ANY OTHER COUNTRY. Our entry into all these wars we have been engaged in is no different to me than the current INVASION of America by foreigners and foreign interests. The American military needs to be HOME – on...
Dear Congressman Ron Paul, I salute you. You are an American hero; no doubt about that. (And happy birthday.) But it is not your sterling voting record and career in DC that distinguishes you nearly as much as it is the movement which you and yours so unwittingly plus all of World History have...
In my search for an answer related to what I thought was the law – that a US citizen could not hold Dual Citizenship – I came upon this web site. Seems as how that USED TO BE THE LAW but not any longer. Questions and answers on dual US/other citizenship Is dual citizenship...
WHAT STALEMATE? Faced with criticism that the Senate has become dysfunctional thanks to his tactics, Senate Minority Leader McConnell today said the chamber is functioning just fine. “I think the Senate is operating largely like our founding fathers anticipated it would,” McConnell told reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast. Responding to a recent...
Remember my ranting about *subsidies* and how I think they should ALL be abolished? Remember I complained that the farm subsidies made CORPORATE farmers RICH and drove the family farms into extinction? When I saw this in the Alabama papers this morning I wondered just how much of the FARM SUBSIDIES go to FOREIGN...
Senate 7: Stacey Campfield wins tight GOP race for 7th District Senate State Rep. Stacey Campfield won the Republican nomination for the 7th District Senate seat in a close race Thursday over Ron Leadbetter, retired associate general counsel from the University of Tennessee. Steve Hill, who raised the most money in the campaign, ran...
CONGRESSIONAL RACES: District 1: Roe Wins Handily In Tennessee’s 1st Congressional District Republican Phil Roe easily outpaced his Democratic rival, Rob Russell, as well as three independent candidates to win Tennessee’s 1st Congressional District seat. When the unofficial tally was in, Roe beat Russell by a nearly 3-1 margin, with 168,194 votes to 57,475....
Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam handily won the Republican nomination for governor of Tennessee on Thursday, beating two more conservative opponents in a primary that also decided the candidates for three U.S. House seats that the GOP believes it is poised to win. With less than five percent of the votes counted, The Associated Press...
A report from Joel Bowman A look at the true nature of the US jobs report Joel Bowman Checking in from El Paso, Texas… The Dow rose 44 points yesterday. Gold gained 8 bucks. What to make of it? One of the advantages of being on the road is that you don’t get a...
I received this from a friend of mine. The article was written by Wayne Allyn Root, the Chairman of the Libertarian National Congressional Committee (LNCC). WAYNE ALLYN ROOT Rahm Emanuel cynically said, “You never want a crisis to go to waste.” It is now becoming clear that the crisis he was referring to is Barack...
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