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Recovery.gov where did the money go?

» by russ November 3rd, 2009 at 10:21 pm » View Comments

So I’ve been seeing many tweets today from @PoliticalMath regarding the data from Recovery.gov. Among my favorites was:
CA zip code 95814 added 75,000 jobs. Population: 16,600. That’s 5 jobs per person! http://bit.ly/14Uijc
As I read into the issue more I found that much of the jobs “saved or created” went to government agencies as this [...]



2009 Tea Parties Google Map

» by russ March 30th, 2009 at 10:35 pm » View Comments

I found a link on Twitter posted by pinkelephantpun with a Google map of all the Tea Parties for 2009. Check it out and find one near you. Show the our heroes in Washington we don’t like the path they are taking with this country.
http://tinyurl.com/cghcfm



Power Grab by Obama and the Democrats

» by russ March 25th, 2009 at 11:10 pm » View Comments

Today I have to say I am actually scared of the Democrats and Obama. I don’t say this lightly as I’ve not been scared before. Now we have Obama seeking to gain the power to take over private companies at his discretion.
Then you have Obama and the Dems seeking to over [...]



Twitter FIGHT!

» by russ March 4th, 2009 at 10:38 pm » View Comments

Ed Morrissey had a great post on Hot Air about a recent Twitter fight between Senator John McCain and Representative Earl Blumenauer. According to Danny Glover on the AirCongress blog:
The Arizona Republican posted his first anti-pork list under the Twitter name @SenJohnMcCain late last week, calling attention to projects like [...]



GOP looks to tech for help

» by russ March 4th, 2009 at 10:28 pm » View Comments

In the 2008 election there was little doubt that President Obama had a firm foot hold in new media and social networking sites. I think this is in part that he is technically savvy and he surrounded himself with technically savvy folks. There is little doubt that John McCain wasn’t prepare for this [...]



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