Marathon Pundit

• And yet even more "saved or created" jobs mischief: Wisconsin

  I watched on television, like a lot of people, Brett Favre's return to Lambeau Field on Sunday. The longtime Green Bay Packer quarterback is now a Minnesota Viking--which got me thinking. Is Favre's new situation a "saved" or "created" job?
  
  Which brings me to Wisconsin. The [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 10:20pm EST
  

• Yet more "saved" jobs mischief: Kentucky

  Take a look at this "saved" job from Kentucky, courtesy of the Wall Street Journal:
  
  A Kentucky shoe-store owner claimed to have created or saved nine jobs with an $889.60 contract to supply work boots to the Army Corps of Engineers. The owner said he supplied nine pairs [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 4:40pm EST
  

• Broder on Tuesday's elections

  Chicago area native David Broder has one of the sharpest political minds in the business. In his latest Washington Post column, he interprets the effects of Tuesday's elections.
  
  Former Republican congressman Vin Weber said he sees the Democrats in "a difficult position. A year ago, they thought they" [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 3:37pm EST
  

• Upper Peninsula Upventure: Pasties

  One of the tourist attractions of Michigan's Upper Peninsula are pasties. It has a flat "a," think opposite of future, with an "ies" added. And no, it has nothing to do with the pasties some women wear.
  
  Cornish immigrants brought the pasty, which is best described [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 2:10pm EST
  

• WSJ: Voters fear that liberal policies are endangering economic recovery

  Will Obama and his fellow liberal Democrats change their ways? I doubt it, because as you'll read in the below post, Senate Dems in the Environment and Public Works Committee voted to advance cap and tax this morning.
  
  Here's what the Wall Street Journal says:
  
  Tuesday's [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 12:55pm EST
  

• Cap and tax passed by Senate Dems in committee vote

  A cap and trade bill, which should be called "cap and tax," was approved by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee this morning. Republicans boycotted the vote--all of the Democrats on the committee voted for the national energy tax, except for Tom Carper (D-DE)--a cap and [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 10:47am EST
  

• Cong. Budget Office: GOP health plan would cut deficit, lower premiums

  Nervous Blue Dog Democrats might want to take a look at the Republican health care reform proposal. The Washington Examiner says why:
  
  The Congressional Budget Office Wednesday night released its cost analysis of the Republican health care plan and found that it would reduce health care premiums and [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 8:58am EST
  

• Upper Peninsula Upventure: Logging

  Upper Peninsula Upventure now turns its eyes to commerce. The U.P. has two main industries, tourism, which is what brought me to northern Michigan in August, and logging.
  
  Thousands once worked in the copper and iron mines of the Upper Peninsula, but just two mines [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 12:36am EST
  

• Unions, card check, biggest losers on Election Day

  The Democrats were big losers on Election Day. But the biggest of all? Michael Barone explains in the Wall Street Journal:
  
  But you missed seeing the guy who may have been the biggest loser of all—a man who according to recently released White House logs has been a [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:21pm EST