Politics

It’s time for the Democrats to step back, take a deep breath, and recalibrate.  The stunning loss last night for the democrat’s senate race in Massachusetts to Republican Scott Brown should send political shock waves to liberal politicians across the country.  This was the seat Ted Kennedy held for 5 decades and now it’s in republican hands.  So what happened?  If you listen to the main stream media (MSM) pundits they’ll tell you it’s because of ethics probes with the local democrats, or Martha ran a campaign worthy of political malpractice or that Brown ran a clever campaign.  Chris Matthews, the pMSNBC left winger, chalked it up to Coakley’s ill timed vacation during the Christmas holidays. But the one excuse that still has me scratching my head...

After the fanfare and good tidings which created that tingling sensation that ran up and down our spines when Barack Obama and team redistributed more of our federal tax dollars through the TARP scheme for “shovel ready” jobs (remember Jobs, Jobs, Jobs) it’s time to see exactly what the consequences are.  First of all, no one can really document the success or inherent failure of the bailout because much of the statistics reported on the government web site are fictitious, listing districts and towns that don’t exist as having received dollars from nanny.  We do know that most of the money has never been spent even though we were told that we must act immediately.  Today on the front page of the Philadelphia Inquirer, our liberal governor, “slick...

Christmas 2009 [display_podcast] Transcript (not verbatim) below: What are you telling yourself on Christmas Eve? An evening with Rick Creasy 12/24/2009 Rick: Are there any questions for me tonight? Clint: I have a question. I like Fox News but I’m trying to figure out how can I get more Fox news. I know it comes in on the TV, but is there any other place I can get Fox News? Rick: Yeah, I think Bill O’Reilly has a book out….Fresh…something. You can get it on the internet, do you have internet? Cause you know Al Gore discovered the internet and it’s really begun to take over. So if you have the internet you should check it out Grandma Howard: And what about getting it on the iPOD? Rick: That’s a great question, Grandma! And this is...

The USPSTF, (United States Preventive Services Task Force) a panel of independent medical experts but part of the US Department of Health and Human Services, said it was recommending against annual mammograms for women between the ages of 40 and 49, saying the risks outweighed the benefits from earlier screening. That …announcement, which goes against a trend of recommending increased screening by cancer agencies, has left many confused. This is especially true since the American Cancer Society and the ACOG (American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology) disagree with the recommendation. Now honestly, If you are a woman reading this, how do you feel about the recent recommendation by the government panel of “medical experts?” Guys, how do you...

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It’s hidden deep on page B1 of the  Philadelphia Inquirer and barely recognizable in the shroud of a local opinion column, but the facts are there.  Philadelphia, one of the Northeast bastions of liberal politics and appointed research laboratory for all that Obamanation stands for, demonstrates the waste and inefficiency of the so-called stimulus money, provided and funded, by the taxpayer’s hard earned money.  Under the superb and brilliant leadership of slick Eddie (Democrat Ed Rendell former mayor of Philadelphia and now Governor) Pennsylvania ranks 50th in creating new jobs from the $787 billion federal stimulus program.  We have an unemployment rate of 8.8%.  As Karen Heller (local columnist) puts it, “the stimulus was supposed to...