Collecting My Thoughts

 The Lord's Prayer has 56 words. Gettysburg Address has 268 words. The Declaration of Independence has 1458 The U.S. Constitution has  4...

[This is what I wrote in an e-mail, but I'm just leaving it here in case you're researching what to do.] My head explodes when I...

I got an e-mail from the NAACP today on the Baltimore anniversary, maligning the female Democrat Mayor and city government and minority cont...

The last recession was over (according to the way the federal government figures these things) in June 2009, before any of Obama's ARRA ...

According to a Pew Report on what the American public believes has happened in the economy, “72% say that, in general, the government’s pol...

We never see improvement and the rolls of both poverty workers and the needy continue to grow. Hunger became "food insecurity" and...

Cash for clunkers" (part of Obama's 2009 stimulus) actually cost the auto industry 3 billion in less than a year, according to rece...

This should be Obama's standard for SNAP--not how many people he has added, but how many don't need it anymore. During the last ...

Although today Jan. 1, 2014, is the starting date for the insurance, Obamacare actually started in 2009 with $19 billion in the ARRA stimulu...

“Under Title XII of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is alloca...

Confused about how the Department of Education spreads around your tax dollar? Here's a comparison of No Child Left Behind (Bush, 2001, ...

"Last week, President Barack Obama refused to allow private citizens to spend $7 billion improving America's energy infrastructure....

Abstract from New England Journal of Medicine , Dec. 15, 2011, "Wiring the Health System--Origins and Provisions of a new federal Prog...

I was browsing the government ARRA "transparency" site for the first stimulus (looked like it had been months since it was updated...

I noticed a white van parked at the hotel this morning. There are several high school sports teams in town for sports camps--we see them ru...

We have very clever capitalists in this country. They know where the money is and right now the green is in the green. The myth of green e...

"Wisconsin Gov.-elect Scott Walker urged the federal government Tuesday to give up on high-speed rail and instead use the money to repa...

Today I wrote to Patrick P. O'Carroll, Jr., Inspector General of the Social Security Administration. In September he wrote (or his staf...

Now that even the President as admitted ( New York Times ) that there never were "shovel ready" projects, the hype and tripe we we...

But no one knows how, unless they really goosed it that last month, because they weren't even close. For now, "if they said, it hap...