But a rose by any other name…
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When the economy is booming, people are generally happier with their work and overall purchasing power. They go out to buy things, they dine out and they make big investments such as buying real estate properties. Similarly, when the economy experiences [...]
UPDATE: It is important to communicate to Senator Tester that we are counting his votes for bringing the bill to the floor and for cloture as well as his vote on the bill. “Yes” votes for the procedural votes are as important as the final vote and we expect our [...]
The Montana State University poll found that 37 percent approve of [...]
…For Montana Palintologists. Sarah will be in Billings for her book tour on December 8.
Wahooo!!!!
From the Gazette:
Sarah Palin is coming to Borders bookstore in Billings for a book signing Dec. 8 to promote her autobiography, “Going Rogue: An American Life,’’ which comes out Tuesday.
An employee [...]
More unbiased news coverage from Newsweek.
Apparently she’s “bad news for the GOP”…I can’t wait for those pearls of wisdom! “If only she were more moderate like Meghan McCain, then she’d be super-rad and totally appealing to Socialists Progressives!!1!” [/Unbiased Newsweek reporter]
I thought she [...]
So many appropriate sayings are going through my head: “Hindsight’s always 20/20″, “You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone”, “Act in haste, repent in leisure”, and, of course, “Better late than never”. All of them so right on so many levels for this post, starting with – I [...]
God bless our soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen and women, and all who serve and have served in the cause of America’s freedom. And a special prayer for the families who also sacrifice so much that the rest of us can enjoy the blessings of liberty every day.
We are forever grateful.
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The liberal/Progressive agenda has moved forward a step with House passage of the Healthcare bill last night. HR 3962 is not a good bill by any standard. It will not reduce the cost of healthcare and there is no way in hell that it will provide [...]
State fiscal analysts and lawmakers have been waiting for the decision in Satterlee to come out because the state government's general fund would be on the hook for some of the tab. Since the decision would have required payouts to people covered under the Old Fund, the state would have had [...]
GOPers are celebrating and predicting 2010 gains while Dems are largely dismissing the results as unimportant losses based on local factors. I think it's somewhere in between.
As most Democrats point out, these elections aren't always the best indicators of what will happen a year from now. A year is a [...]
You can pick-up the targets found above at Zombie Targets. You’re on your own in tracking down the 870.
That is all.
[...]Just received word that the Montana Supreme Court affirmed the Workers' Compensation Court in the Satterlee work comp case. This is the case where the plaintiffs were seeking to overturn a statute that prohibits the collection of work comp benefits after a worker is retired. This means that the statute [...]
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Come back tomorrow for commentary on today's elections in MT, NY, NJ, and VA, and a 2010 Election preview.
[...]If you don’t think that the government takeover of your healthcare is in your best interest, then NOW is the time to take action. Contact your congress critters and let them know how you feel. Even if you know it won’t change their vote – let them know! As Rep. [...]
Last week, the Governor's office asked the Montana State Fund to show more information on why work comp rates have doubled since 2000. His tone in the article is rather harsh to the State Fund without looking at the real reasons of increasing costs, including his own opposition to good [...]
Although health care reform is still #1 in Washington, climate change legislation is lurking in the shadows ready to move at a moment's notice. Here are a few good links you should check out on this important topic:
Senator Baucus expresses his concerns about a proposed cap-and-trade bill
Dr. Steve Running [...]
What with all the scary stuff to focus on this Halloween season, it is worth a minute or two to take a breath and realize WHY we care so much about what happens in the political arena: Our freedom to search out the path to our own brighter future.
Today, [...]
The Pew Research Center has published a poll showing the awareness of issues in the public realm. Here is a breakout by Republicans, Independents and Democrats:Speaking at the start of an Environment and Public Works Committee hearing where he is the [...]
But State Rep. Mike Phillips said a large challenge faces him and others who want to see the federal legislation pass. He announced he’d been chosen the [...]
The American consumer long ago fell under the spell of the Madison Avenue marketing gurus who dazzled us with promises of instant gratification. “Charge it”, “No payments until…”, “Buy now, pay later” are phrases that we all have readily taken advantage of at one time or another. But there’s a [...]
For many of my faithful readers there has been something very important missing for the past few days: The Dextra RSS Feed. The constant updates from the Montana conservative blogosphere that magically appeared on the right side of the page as a new post was launched from Electric City Weblog, [...]
Bottom Line
President Obama has never said, either on the campaign trail or after taking office, that he intends to push for a ban on the sale of all guns. Nevertheless, the reports of increased sales of guns and ammunition suggest that certain segments of [...]
Every election year the Montana Chamber teams up with the Montana Electric Cooperative Association and the Montana Credit Union Network to host a series of non-partisan campaign schools around the state. We are still getting some of the details worked out, but we have some dates and locations set:
January 26th [...]
That must make all of his listeners Toadies…
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“In our world, you were either a bully, a toady, or one of the nameless rabble of victims!”
First the White House calls out FOX News for not being actual news and now more on the left [...]
It’s not even the Obamacare Death Panel.
It’s much, much worse.
Last week, the White House declared war on Fox News. At first, it seemed like another stupid, short-sighted, inexperienced, arrogant pronouncement by the Chicago thugs running the asylum at 1600 [...]
Big news this weekend is the result of the latest Rasmussen poll showing Mike Huckabee leading Mitt Romney in a hypothetical Republican match-up.
Talking heads and media experts are weighing in with all sorts of theories on how and why this might be happening. Conventional wisdom [...]
A new movie is bound to stir the climate change pot even further as the U.S. Senate prepares to take up cap-and-trade legislation after health care reform. "Not Evil, Just Wrong" is a response to Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," and it sets out to shine some light on the devastating economic impacts [...]
