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By Sherea Harris BIRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC) – Many homeowners are taking control of their personal safety. A local gun store owner says more women are taking advantage of the right to bear arms. These are mainly women who live alone and single moms. Officials say women are seeing that there are more incidents of home invasions and burglaries and they want to protect themselves. Continue reading… Preliminary data indicates that, for the third year in a row, the rate of violent crime in the United States is down. It appears that property crime also declined, for the seventh straight year. Continue reading… Felipe Calderon received liberal plaudits for falsely claiming Arizona’s new immigration law uses racial profiling, but that wasn’t the only baloney the Mexican president peddled during his state visit. Over four minutes of his Thursday address to Congress was spent lecturing Americans to renew the federal Assault Weapons Ban that sunset in September 2004. His justifications for the ban were all garbage. Continue reading… It’s sobering to compare this pessimistic 3 percent GDP loss as a result of climate change by 2100 to the CBO’s projected loss of up to 3.5 percent of GDP due to carbon rationing by 2050, five decades earlier. Unless carbon rationing is designed and implemented perfectly, the losses incurred from government policies that aim to combat climate change will easily outweigh the losses that could result from climate change. The Kerry-Lieberman carbon rationing scheme is far from perfect. Continue reading… According to preliminary estimates by the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis, the Index of Dependence on Government grew by 13.6 percent in 2009. That’s the largest single-year expansion in dependency-creating programs since 1962 – the year before Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” launched. The excesses of 2009 are proving to be “a bridge too far” even for the massive American economy. With both U.S. spending and debt in hyper-drive, the International Monetary Fund is openly worried. Continue reading… The Detroit NewsThe betting in Washington is that the cap-and-trade carbon bill introduced in the Senate by Democrat John Kerry of Massachusetts and Independent Joe Lieberman of Connecticut hasn’t got a chance of passing this year. That may explain why public outcry against yet another economy-choking piece of legislation has been fairly muted. But we’re not taking anything for granted, remembering that in January, after Scott Brown scored his stunning victory in the Massachusetts race for the U.S. Senate, the smart money said that health care reform was dead, too. And look what happened. According to surveys, no group of Americans is more skeptical of Obamacare than senior citizens[1]—and with good reason. While bits and pieces of the massive law are designed to appeal to seniors—more taxpayer subsidies for the Medicare drug benefit, for example—much of the financing over the initial 10 years is siphoned off from an estimated $575 billion in projected savings to the Medicare program. Unless Medicare savings are captured and plowed right back into the Medicare program, however, the solvency of the Medicare program will continue to weaken. The law does not provide for that. Medicare is already burdened by an unfunded liability of $38 trillion. Click here to continue reading. |
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