It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that the push for H-1B visa expansion has nothing to do with a lack of American professionals and more to do with corporations driving down salaries with Bill Gates at Microsoft driving the lobbying efforts. Now we are being told it isn’t a lack of […]

From the Heritage Foundation blog, The Foundry is a map showing the foreclosure rate by state.

The crisis talk clouds the national picture, obscuring the varied state-by-state impact of the mortgage mess. The chart above uses the latest data to map out how the foreclosure rate for subprime loans stayed below 10% in all but 13 […]

Not terribly surprising but 2 of every 3 product recalls in the US was made in China for 2007.
67% of 2007 recalls were China imports
Reports of defective, unsafe products rise every quarter
The CPSC recalled a total of 447 products for safety concerns last year. Of those, 298 were manufactured in China. Only 62 were made […]

I am horrified after reading this story. So little regard for the innocent lives of babies.
Botched abortions mean that scores of babies are being born alive and left to die, an official report has revealed. A total of 66 infants survived NHS termination attempts in one year alone, it emerged. Rather than […]

I thought MRSA/USA300 (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) was scarey enough but nope. There’s a new staph variant and it’s more resistant AND there appears to be a concentration of the bug in San Fransisco. In fact, it’s spreading like wildfire in the gay community but also expanding it’s reach beyond. Not terribly surprising […]

Now this is interesting and disturbing from The New Media Journal
According to official campaign fund raising filings posted at www.opensecrets.org, Ron Paul’s top contributor is well known internet giant Google. Google, with Al Gore on the board of directors, has a long history of progressive political activism, both in the way they censor […]

There is not only a problem with the recently passed SCHIP bill which President Bush vetoed but there is a problem with the EXISTING SCHIP program. What a shocker huh? Turns out there’s an awful lot of adults on the program “for the children”!
From KJL at The Corner:
Democrats’ Children’s Health Bill […]

From Joe Barton, Ranking Member (House Energy & Commerce Committee Republicans)
The ‘C’ in SCHIP Is for Children, Except When It’s Not
According to the states’ budget projections, 13 will spend more than 44 percent of their SCHIP funds in 2008 on people who are neither children nor pregnant women.
Michigan tops the list with 71.6 percent of […]

I know there are many who won’t find this information positive since it is contrary to what they want to hear.

The Department of Defense announced today its recruiting and retention statistics for the Active and Reserve components for Fiscal Year 2007.

· Active Duty Recruiting Fiscal Year 2007. […]

From Bobbie Patray at TnEagleForum Senator Alexander voted yes while Senator Bob Corker voted no.
Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007 - S. 5
Vote Counts: YEAs 63
NAYs 34
Not Voting 3
Alexander (R-TN), YeaCorker (R-TN), Nay
Kudos to Sen. Bob Corker for keeping his campaign promise to oppose thedestruction of embryos for any type of research.
Sen. Alexander, who […]

The Heritage Foundation recently released a new study - The Fiscal Cost of Low-Skill Households to the U.S. Taxpayer.  This study took into account all forms of government services - direct and indirect.  The resulting categories are direct benefits, means-tested benefits, educational services, population-based services, interest and other financial obligations and pure public goods.  The […]

From Roy Beck of Numbers USA email we get some of the skivvy with the new Senate/White House plan for immigration reform scamnesty.
QUICK OVERVIEW
Our analysis here is based on the 23-slide Power Point show the White House has been giving Members of Congress the last couple of days, and on our interviews with Members who […]

In an email from Bobbie Patray of Tn. Eagle Forum:
WHERE YOUR STATE TAX DOLLAR COMES FROM: Sales Tax – 60 cents; Motor Vehicle – 2 cents; Gasoline Taxes – 7 cents; Income & Inheritance – 2 cents; Gross Receipts & Privilege – 5 cents; Franchise & Excise – 13 cents; Insurance & Banking – 4 […]

Yep, unlike what the Dhimmicrats think, Americans want to win this fight against the Islamic terrorists around the world.  That means they want to win this fight in Iraq.  They don’t want to leave Iraq a bloody mess.
New bumpersticker - link found at Outside the Wire Blog

Outside the Wire blog talks about the Public […]

Yes, the ethanol scam is one of my pet peeves.  It’s like the Global Warming is caused by man scam, if you say a lie often enough people believe the lie.  I think President Bush is buying into the scam for political expediency, encouraged on by his advisors.  I refuse to believe he actually has […]

By Nancy Matthis at American Daughter
Today’s Blogburst is also available as a Podcast. 
The Price of Lettuce
Federal subsidies do not reduce the COST of food to the taxpayer. They increase it. Likewise, illegal immigration does not reduce the cost of food, or of any other goods and services, to the taxpayer. Illegal immigration also increases those […]

As a result of John Kerry’s slanderous statements about the US Military I thought it appropriate to refer back to this study by the Heritage Foundation from November, 2005.
Who Bears the Burden? Demographic Characteristics of U.S. Military Recruits Before and After 9/11
by Tim Kane, Ph.D.
Center for Data Analysis Report #05-08

November 7, 2005

In summary, we found […]

Juan has some hard facts to deliver along the lines of Bill Cosby and the Black community is demonizing him. Juan is a correspondent for NPR, he also is an political analyst for Fox News. He represents the left side of the aisle which is why it’s a rare day I would agree with Juan.
My […]

Good news for the Army:
The Army is ending its best recruiting year since 1997 and expecting similar success in 2007, despite the weight of grim war news from Iraq, Army Secretary Francis Harvey said.
In an Associated Press interview Thursday, Harvey said the Army will enlist its 80,000th Soldier on Friday, reaching its goal for the […]

Ollie North exposes this shame on our nation. While members of the Senate are talking about amnesty and increasing the likelihood of additional illegal aliens.
While preparing a documentary on the medical treatment our wounded warriors receive, a representative of the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) told me that while health care and rehabilitation for […]

Found Signal 94 via Euphoric Reality. Signal 94 has pulled together some astounding and disturbing statistics gathered from the National Institute of Corrections. Note where this report was directed. I certainly hope some of our Senators would bother to read the report.
I found this May 2005 report released by the National institute […]

I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve had the conversation where someone adamantly tells you that the military is mostly comprised of the poor and minorities. I know this isn’t true but have had nothing to back this up. I know the minority statistics have been documented but had not seen […]

Mudville Gazette shows the charts which enumerate the daily attacks by insurgents and the number of multiple fatality bombings but there are some additional numbers which are not often cited or shown. The attacks by province is certainly telling along with tips received from the Iraqi Population. As Greyhawk points out the success of the […]

RedStateRant: The Divorce rate myth
I’ve heard Michael Medved talk about this myth before and was glad I came across this posting which shows how this myth was started and also shows the truer statistics around marriage and divorce percentages.
Excerpt:

It all began when the Census Bureau noted that during one year, there were 2.4 million marriages […]