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For now, I’ll just have “put it out there,” so to speak, regarding two outrageous RINO-related items. Most readers here will already know that I’m really, really not pleased.
Do read what’s happening in Pennsylvania’s GOP, because it’s worse than what’s going on in Ohio.
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Gosh, “everybody” just “knew” that fourth quarter GDP growth was going to be 3% or more (See Update 2 — Some were even confident that it would be above 3% and speculated that it might really end up being 4%), and that there was soooooo much pent-up GDP growth left over from the third quarter’s disappointment.
Oops — and don’t forget that this is subject to two revisions, which in previous quarters during the POR (Pelosi-Obama-Reid) economy have generally gone the wrong way.
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Jan 26, 2012 / 05:59 pm
Today’s world can learn a lot from St. John of Avila, according to those who have studied the life of the next Doctor of the Catholic Church.
“St. John of Avila is far from us in time, but nearby for his figure, his life, his evangelizing witness and for his teaching,” Archbishop Juan del Río Martín of Spain’s Archdiocese for Military Services told CNA.
Archbishop del Río Martín was one of three experts on the Spanish saint who gathered in Rome on Jan. 20 for the presentation of a new book in Spanish that explores the writings of St. John of Avila.
Would someone please buy the Washington Post’s Josh White a clue? He can’t seem to get a handle on the “motive” for the actions of Yonathan Melaku (actually, I think White is pretending).
Melaku has just pleaded guilty and will be sentenced to 25 years in jail. Authorities say he vandalized military grave markers, shot at the Pentagon and military museums, and was working on an improvised explosive device. But the headline to White’s story (HT Atlas Shrugs) and the reporter’s content act as if no one has the foggiest idea what drop Melaku to do what he did (words which betray motivation are bolded):
Today’s report by Derek Kravitz at the Associated Press (also known to yours truly as the Administration’s Press) covering the Census Bureau’s December and full-year 2011 new-home sales release put a smiley-face on the “worst ever” year (the AP headline’s term) in the category.
I like the adjective used at Sweetness & Light’s related blog post to describe Kravitz’s crud: “unfazed.” The AP reporter follows four paragraphs of facts with three paragraphs of sunshiny “analysis” which are so wholly unsupported by reality that you would fall off of your chair laughing if you didn’t also realize that most readers, listeners and viewers who saw and heard this garbage today didn’t know any better than to believe it:
So says Rush. More here.
The core argument by Team Romney that Newt Gingrich was not a Reagan true believer is Gingrich’s 1988 assertion that “If (George H.W.) Bush Runs as a Continuation of Reaganism, He Will Lose.”
Gosh, nobody beat up on Al Gore for not staking his campaign on saying “I’m going to keep on doing Clintonism,” did they?
Based on Census Bureau data (today’s release; database detail link; keep in mind that at the time 2008 was considered an historically awful year, because it was):
SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA
In the week ending January 21, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 377,000, an increase of 21,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 356,000. The 4-week moving average was 377,500, a decrease of 2,500 from the previous week’s revised average of 380,000.
… UNADJUSTED DATA
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