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• The Tea Party Movement-What is it?

  By AWC on February 15, 2010 • ( 1 )

  

  The Tea Party movement is made of Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians and Independents. There is no central authority or leader, only a loose network of organizations all over the country that agree on a few simple concepts. The Tea Party takes… Read More ›

• The Job’s Bill-Government Magic Tricks

  By AWC on February 14, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  I remember learning how magicians use sleight-of-hand to keep the audience focused on one hand, while they use their other hand to perform the trick.  This intentional distraction works well in magic and works wonders in politics. The recent Jobs… Read More ›

• Cops That Swiss Cheese A Teenager

  By AWC on February 10, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  When the public believes the police acted inappropriately or with too much force, they are told for the investigation to be completed so all the facts are known.  Once the investigation is completed, the public is told the report is not available… Read More ›

• Budget Cuts Lead To Attempted Rape

  By AWC on February 8, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  The Butterfly Effect is a metaphor that encapsulates the concept of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory; namely that small differences in the initial condition of a dynamical system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system. ~Wikipedia Also… Read More ›

• Tea Party 2010 – April 15 – Washington D.C.

  By AWC on February 8, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  FreedomWorks is hosting a Tea Party on April 15, 2010. Click here for more information. The following pictures are from Tea Parties all over the country in 2009. Click on picture to enlarge.

• Female Bartender Attacks A 250 Pound Man

  By AWC on February 6, 2010 • ( 0 )

  Please view the video and then read the following post. Warning: The video may be uncomfortable for some viewers. To be honest, I don’t know what is more disturbing…the beating, or the other men standing around doing nothing. So you’ve… Read More ›

• Government Calligraphers Protected From Recession

  By AWC on February 5, 2010 • ( 1 )

  

  Some of the best comedies are based on characters who have become completely detached from reality. The more detached they are, the funnier it is. Farmers that have never been to the city and don’t know how to use a flush toilet, or a city… Read More ›

• Government Employees: The Elite Citizen Class

  By AWC on January 30, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  Did you know that in California, 1 in 22 people can drive in violation of the toll roads without a transponder and never pay the fine? Or park illegally in handicap spots? Or be alone and take the carpool lane?… Read More ›

• State of the Union – My Thoughts

  By AWC on January 28, 2010 • ( 0 )

  The following are my personal thoughts on President Obama’s State of the Union speech last night. The bulleted lines are from his speech, everything in italics or [brackets] or bolded is mine. The speech was long, so the post is… Read More ›

• FOOD, Inc.

  By AWC on January 27, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  An eye-opening film into the structure of how most of our food is managed, engineered and controlled by a small handful of corporations and the unintended consequences that result. ~A.W. Chuck In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil… Read More ›

• Government Workers Are Better Than You

  By AWC on January 26, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  The current administration continues to elevate government workers into an elite class of individuals that are above the private sector working class. The following is for private sector workers, I’ll get to the public employees in a minute. According to… Read More ›

• GM and Chrysler Employees – Only 0.1% of the Employed

  By AWC on January 24, 2010 • ( 0 )

  UPDATE 04/24/10: For perspective, Fortune magazine (April 12, 2010) reports that 870,000 people will be hired this year for the census which could reduce the unemployment rate by 0.5%. GM & Chrysler only employ 170,000 people. So if all of… Read More ›

• Banks Get to Pay for Government Expansion

  By AWC on January 22, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  The healthcare reform bill may be dead but there is still a need to understand why government expansionism is bad for business and for taxpayers. The elephant in the room on the healthcare plan was how the heck was the government going to pay… Read More ›

• Uncertainty, The Storm That Never Ends

  By AWC on January 22, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  Nothing makes a recession last longer than market uncertainty. Contrary to what the government would have you believe, the “market” is fairly predictable.  There are thousands of leading and lagging indicators that move in certain directions of varying amounts and can… Read More ›

• Some Didn’t Get The Memo

  By AWC on January 21, 2010 • ( 0 )

  A BATTLE WIN FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, THE WAR GOES ON In today’s Wall Street Journal, “President Barack Obama suggested he’s open to Congress passing a scaled-back health-care bill, potentially sacrificing much of his signature policy initiative as chaos engulfed Capitol… Read More ›

• Washington-Did you get the memo? The People Have Spoken

  By AWC on January 19, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  With 52% of the vote, Scott Brown defeats Martha Coakley for the Massachusetts Senate seat left vacant by the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy and becomes the 41st vote needed in the Senate to kill the health care reform bill…. Read More ›

• Massachusetts Senate Race Update

  By AWC on January 19, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  Polls are closed now, as of 8:00pm EST. The numbers are just starting to come in, and Boston.com’s interactive map is back, but this time it’s real-time data feeding it.  With only a few locations reporting counts, Brown is ahead…for… Read More ›

• Absentee Ballot Abuse in Massachusetts

  By AWC on January 19, 2010 • ( 0 )

  Why is this woman running around in Lawrence, Massachusetts with blank spanish-language absentee ballots and asking people to mark the box for Martha Coakley, the Democrat candidate?