McCain was the key figure behind Boeing losing a $35 billion contract to a European company. Boeing has said the contract would have supported 44,000 new and existing jobs. So why does John McCain hate the American workers so much? It sure sounds like he doesn’t have any pride in the USA. Is that really […]
This should make all the people suffering feel better: The White House said on Friday that it was disappointed in the biggest monthly decline in nearly five years in U.S. job payrolls and that the current quarter would be difficult for the U.S. economy. “This quarter’s going to be a difficult quarter for the U.S. […]
17,000 jobs lost in January. Wow: The economy lost 17,000 jobs in January, the Labor Department reported on Friday, an unexpected decline that marks the most striking evidence yet that the United States may be slipping into a recession. But don’t let that bad news get you down. Exxon has set another record profit year: […]
Looks like another company hit by the credit crunch. This will amount to about 1,500 people worldwide losing their jobs.
These are becoming ridiculous Josh has a nice summary of the ad Okay, we’ve got another Rudy ad out and it’s reaching the point of true pathos as Rudy tries to extend his 9/11 brand to anything else that is actually relevant to voters’ lives. In his latest attempt, which you can see below, Rudy […]
The administration has been bragging that this is a major milestone in Iraq, and the media hasn’t been far behind. Now more details are emerging and it seems the law has some major problems: But now, under new legislation promoted as way to return former Baathists to public life, the 56-year-old and thousands like him […]
During Katrina all the talk from the right was how recovery and victim aide needs to be in the hand of the private organizations like the Red Cross and churches. The problem is that they rely upon donations of ordinary citizens. That would work good if we had an economy that could afford us the […]
You read this and it makes our problems seem so petty: The United Nations (UN) has warned that half a million people in Kenya will need aid in the weeks ahead if the country’s political crisis intensifies. [SNIP] The UN children’s organisation UNICEF estimates one in three children under five were already malnourished before this […]
So far nine House Republicans have announced they won’t seek re-election next year. Now we start hearing the excuses for them not running: Rep. Ray LaHood (R-Ill.), 61, one of those who announced he’s packing it in, said that the Democrats’ new five-day workweek made traveling back home that much more difficult. “I do think […]
During the holidays, I was getting so frustrated. Every time I turned on MSNBC or CNN, I was greeted with a repeat. Something sounds wrong with turning on a NEWS channel and seeing re-runs. If I wanted re-runs, I would stick to watching prime-time network television, but MSNBC and CNN have turned to that same […]