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Australian Budget Delivered – There Is Just One Figure You Need To Know About Treasurer Wayne Swan – $19.4 Billion
By Andrew Bolt ~ Last night, Federal Treasurer, Wayne Swan delivered his sixth Budget for Australia. With this Labor Government so out of favour with the voting public, and standing so low in the Polls, this could prove to be his last Budget, with the Federal Election looming in September. It was not a typical […]
If Australia Is Doing So Well, How Did Treasurer Wayne Swan Go Broke?
By Andrew Bolt ~ Tonight, the Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan hands down the Budget for Australia. This is an election year, and every Budget handed down during an election year has huge amounts of money in give aways to bribe lure the voting public into supporting them. This year however, the cupboard is bare, and […]
Australia Cuts Foreign Aid As Prime Minister Gillard Walks Even Further From Another Costly Rudd Plan
By Andrew Bolt ~ Australia’s former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd once had hopes of being a UN grandee, or of at least buying us a seat on the UN Security Council. Money seemed no object, and I was astonished that no hardheads in Labor were asking about a dramatic increase in spending that didn’t seem […]
Obama Breeds Rebellion Among The States
By Alan Caruba ~ The resistance to Obamacare is writing a new chapter in U.S. history. It may well become the most unpopular law since Prohibition became an Amendment to the Constitution in 1919. By 1933, another Amendment repealed it. Obamacare passed by a straight Democratic party vote on Christmas Eve in 2009. No Republican […]
Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion: Error and Terror Are Two Different Things
By Jessica Zuckerman ~ On April 17, a West Texas fertilizer plant exploded, leaving 14 dead and approximately 200 injured. Investigators continue to look into exactly what caused the explosion that left an estimated $100 million in damages in its wake. Yet, while investigators are still looking to determine if the blast was due to […]
Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan Should Be Sacked
By Andrew Bolt ~ Good question from Terry McCrann: Why hasn’t Wayne Swan been sacked? The Treasurer, Wayne Swan should go, after the disastrous forecasts and assumptions on which his budget was based. It is absolutely fundamental to understand that this is not just a matter of getting forecasts wrong in a volatile and uncertain […]
CNN, Robert Redford Team Up For Series On Obama’s Chicago Under Emanuel, The ‘Tough Visionary Mayor’
By Tim Graham ~ The Chicago Tribune’s Steve Johnson reports CNN has made a deal with liberal actor Robert Redford to produce a eight-episode reality show in 2014 called “Chicagoland.” CNN and Redford aren’t filming in a red state or a hick town – it’s Obama’s adopted hometown: “One of the attractions to Chicago, CNN […]
Australia’s Climate Change Minister Greg Combet Announces The Death Of The Global Warming Scare
By Andrew Bolt ~ I watched the global warming scare this week drowning in a pool of red ink, right on my television screen. I don’t just mean Climate Change Minister Greg Combet being forced yesterday to eat his mendacious words, having blown a gigantic hole in the Budget . First there was Monday night’s […]
Cost Of Amnesty To U.S. Taxpayers: $6.3 Trillion
By Amy Payne ~ The Heritage Foundation’s new report estimates that an amnesty like the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill offers would cost U.S. taxpayers $6.3 trillion. Heritage President Jim DeMint said on Fox News this morning, “There’s no way that you can look at this and say that it’s good for the American taxpayer, […]
Amnesty Bill Is A Massive Multi-Million Dollar Fraud
By Alan Caruba ~ Native-born and naturalized Americans who are currently seeking work are already competing with illegal immigrants—a term that the Associated Press says it will no longer use—or standing in line behind them as they sign up for all manner of welfare benefits. The official estimate of the number of illegal aliens—oops, undocumented […]
Tier 3 Rules Are Unnecessary, Costly
And designed solely to provide EPA with more jobs and more power over people’s lives. By Paul Driessen ~ 1,920 and counting! That’s how many regulations President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has promulgated since his 2009 inauguration. Many, if not most, will bring few health or environmental benefits – but will impose high economic and […]
Solar Energy Embarrassingly Less Productive Than Coal
By Rudy Takala ~ A map recently released by the Solar Foundation highlights the industry’s claim that 119,000 Americans are now employed in the solar industry. Its authors exclaim, “The United States solar industry employs more workers than coal mining.” What the map doesn’t touch on is whether solar energy is the most economical energy […]
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