Dick’s Sporting Goods Caved to anti-gun zealots and decided to stop selling the mother of all assault rifles ugly guns, the AR-15. But, that seems to have backfired on Dick’s. Fire Andrea Mitchell has more… Dick’s Sporting Goods sales and stock have plummeted after they decided to cease AR-15 sales, shortly after Newtown. They bowed to the anti gun zealot crowd and decided to stopped selling AR-15s. Now only did Dick’s Sporting Good stop selling the AR-15s, they didn’t bother filling orders of those who purchased the guns before the Newtown shootings happened. That was right after Christman and before [...]
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Regal Entertainment Group Reduces Worker Hours to Comply with ObamaCare
It’s a shame that so many Obama voter are suffering the consequences of their vote. But, then again, being a “low information voter” is a choice. The information was out there, freely available. People could have looked up the facts and known that they were in for it if the voted Democrat. But, too many listened to the MSM, or their union boss, and now, they are paying the price-literally and figuratively. FOX News has the latest example, the Regal Entertainment Group, The nation’s largest movie theater chain has cut the hours of thousands of employees, saying in a company [...]
ObamaCare Damage: Universal Studios Part-Time Workers to Lose Coverage
It seem that the part-time workers at Universal Studios Orlando are going to lose their insurance at the end of next year. The culprit? ObamaCare! The Lid has more… Universal Studios Orlando provides limited health insurance for it’s part time workers…or at least will until the end of the year. The theme park announced that it will stop offering medical insurance to part-time employees beginning next year, a move the resort says has been forced by Obamacare. Universal currently offers part-time workers a limited insurance plan that has low premiums but also caps the payout of benefits. For instance, Universal’s [...]
Election 2012: What Went Wrong?
So President Barack Obama won Election 2012. What went wrong? Some people will go small and point towards factors such as the Chris Christie and Colin Powell’s backstabbing, a chance hurricane, a weak third debate from Romney, Romney’s unforced Jeep mistake, or the power of the ground game. But I think the what went wrong is something much bigger than this. In my post Has America Passed the Point of No Return (ie, 50.1%+ Dependency on Government)? I quotes an article by John Hinderaker over at Powerline blog calledWhy Is This Election Close?: …On paper, given Obama’s record, this election should be a [...]
More Reasons for the Obama Campaign to Panic? Collapse and Impending Doom on Election Day?
Yesterday, we discussed that the Obama Campaign’s allocation of funds and resources indicated that they are panicking, using scarce resources in places that a democrat incumbent should never have to defend this late in the game. Today, however, even more indications of collapse and impending doom came to light. Reason for Panic 1: Dwindling Crowds at Obama Events… In a related presidential campaign rally in Commerce City, Colorado, former President Bill Clinton was the designated cheerleader to speak to the gathered faithful. However, the rally, held at a Commerce City High School, wasn’t “optimal,” to use a phrase from President Obama. The school extended the [...]
High Cigarette Taxes Backfire Once Again: Illinois Latest State to Collide with Reality
Who would have thought that higher cigarette taxes would reduce tax revenue? Well, anyone with a brain would have predictecd that, so I guess that’s why regressives went and did it anyway. Hot Air has the details… With some time having passed to let the cash cow fatten, we should check back in and see what the fine citizens of the Land of Lincoln are doing with their new found largesse. I do hope they’re not all getting fat and lazy now that all of the state’s fiscal problems have been solved. Ahhh… happy days. When Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed a bill [...]
MSM Deathwatch: Faith in Media at an all Time Low
What happens when the MSM is continually caught telling lies, ignoring stories that everyone knows about, and basically making it up as they go along? Well, people stop trusting them! And, that appears to be happening to our friends at the MSM. Newsbusters has the details… America’s confidence in TV news has hit a new low, but should anyone be surprised? According to Gallup’s analysis of their annual Confidence in Institutions survey , only 21 percent of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in TV news. Newspapers don’t fare much better with only 25 percent of respondents expressing confidence. Gallup’s survey, which was [...]
324,000 Women Dropped out of Work Force: NOW Silent
While the GOP and Conservatives have been accused of a mythical “war on womyn,”the Obama administration has been waging a very real one. CNS News has the details… (CNSNews.com) – 324,000 women dropped out of the nation’s civilian labor force in March and April as the number of women not in the labor force hit an all-time historical high of 53,321,000, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The civilian labor force consists of all people in the United States 16 years or older who are not in the military, a prison, or another institution such as a nursing home or [...]
ObamaCare Damage Roundup: It Costs Almost Twice as Much as Promised, and Millions Might Lose Their Plans
Are Conservatives and Libertarians prophetic? Or do they just have a good grasp of the obvious? While I’d like to think that we’re able to see the future, the reality is that we can integrate information from a variety of sources, and make reasonable predictions about future events. Consider ObamaCare-when we were told that Congress had to pass it “so we can see what is in it.” While the contents were supposedly a mystery, promises were made, like it being revenue neutral, costing approximately $900,000,000,000 over the first ten years. However, Conservatives pointed out that there were many accounting tricks done to meet that number, and [...]
President Obama Puts 20-Year Ban on Prosperous and Safe Uranium Mining in Arizona
Until 1980, the United States was the world’s leading producer of uranium, but today there are only three operating uranium mines left. This may have been due to the fall in uranium prices, which hit a low of $7.92 per pound in 2001. But with the price climbing to over $50 today, there is renewed interest in mining uranium, which is essential to powering nuclear power plants and important for national security- and it gets even better, because there are still considerable deposits of uranium in the United States, including fairly large deposits that were discovered in northern Arizona over recent years. Uranium [...]
New York Cigarette Tax Fails to Bring in Projected Revenues: Anyone Surprised?
One thing that statists miss is that taxes change human behavior. When something is taxed to the extent that it becomes less affordable, people will either stop using the taxed item, use less of the taxed item, or obtain the item by other means. For the latest, NY State is lamenting the fact that their cigarette tax revenue is far below expectations… The Empire State is struggling to bring in additional tax revenue it projected it would gain from efforts to stop smokers from buying untaxed cigarettes on Indian Reservations, reports the New York Post: The state’s tax collectors were recently [...]
