August 31, 2011
According to the latest BLS national wage estimate through May 2010, the mean annual salary for lawyers was around $129,440, which partly accounts for the fact that the U.S. has one of the highest number of lawyers per capita in the world. Based on data from the American Bar Association, there are over 1.2 million lawyers in the United [...]
Tags: Lawsuits In The U.S.
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August 31, 2011
Tuesday in the Washington Post, Dana Milbank praised federal agencies FEMA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for their performances during the recent storm, implying that the difference between Hurricanes Katrina and Irene was the robust intervention of the federal government under Barack Obama, and that those dastardly Tea Partiers are conspiring to leave [...]
Tags: Chris Christie, Dana Milbank, FEMA, hurricane irene, Hurricane Katrina, Joplin, Michael Bloomberg, NOAA, Ray Nagin, Tea Party
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August 30, 2011
Mather ,Byles a little known colonist from Massachusetts is known for the statement he made in supporting the King of England during the Revolution, “Which is better – to be ruled by one tyrant three thousand miles away, or by three thousand tyrants one mile away.” Considering the current state of affairs in this state and [...]
Tags: Boston Tea Party, Donovan Weir, Hollywood Congress of Republicans, Mather Byles, Tea Party, Tea Party activists, Tea Party Patriots, The Tea Act
Posted in Domestic Policy, GOP, Guest Writer, Republican | 4 Comments »
August 30, 2011
Coal has been used by man to keep warm since the early bronze age. It was used by the Native Americans as early as the 1300′s as a fuel to cook with, to heat their homes and was even used in the clay pots they made. Coal fueled the Industrial Revolution with a cheap source [...]
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Posted in Conservative, Domestic Policy, Economy, Ira Schwartz | 3 Comments »
August 29, 2011
In 1949, George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eight-Four the following profound statement: And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the [...]
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Posted in Conservative, Democrat, Elections, GOP, Republican, Tim Ross, Uncategorized | 4 Comments »
August 29, 2011
Well guys, I’m glad to be back from three weeks of traveling. First I was on vacation in Thailand. While there, I thought I was going to be able to write a lot except that for four of my eight days there, I was on Koh Ngai, a tropical island in the Andaman Sea. Unfortunately, [...]
Tags: 1960s, Academy Awards, Best Picture, Civil Rights, Emma Stone, mississippi, Movies, The Help
Posted in Entertainment, Frank DeMartini | 2 Comments »
August 28, 2011
This was a week for sweet corn and sweethearts. I’m sure that doesn’t make much sense to you but hopefully by the end of this story, you will understand. Every year Fairborn has a sweet corn festival. This year we celebrated 30 years. It is sponsored by the Fairborn Art Association and the Fairborn Lion’s [...]
Tags: Fairborn Ohio, Fairborn Ohio City Council, MSA, Multiple System Atrophy
Posted in Frank Cervone, MSA | 6 Comments »
August 27, 2011
In the week since I posted my paean to the burgeoning love affair between our socialist president and the capitalist investor, a series of developments seems to indicate that the unlikely lovebirds have taken their relationship to the next level. Perhaps the white collar crime felony level. Now I’ll admit, all I know about insider [...]
Tags: Bank of America, Brian Moynihan, China, Goldman Sachs, Jeffrey Immelt, martha's vineyard, TARP, Warren Buffett
Posted in Domestic Policy, Economy, Kevin Rush, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
August 26, 2011
Hurricane Irene, this seasons 9th storm, sets to make landfall sometime late tonight or early tomorrow morning somewhere along the Virginia or South Carolina coast. Already rain from its outer bands began falling along the North and South Carolina coast with Swells and 6- to 9-foot waves were reported along the Outer Banks. Thousands had [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, CNN, Economy, Fox News, hurricane irene, National Weather Service, New York, NOAA
Posted in Domestic Policy, Ira Schwartz | No Comments »
August 26, 2011
“Light travels faster than sound. That is why some people appear bright until you hear them.” Spread more light, less heat.” And we discourage the needed but uncomfortable wisdom. “Mea maxima culpa.” If the national debt itself does not stimulate you to react empathetically to “In one impassioned diatribe, embracing Howard Beale (Network) as he [...]
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Posted in Conservative, Democrat, Domestic Policy, Economy, Elections, GOP, Guest Writer, Republican, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
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