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• Boston Globe Declares Winner in Senate Race! 8 Hours Before Polls Close

  By AWC on January 19, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  The Boston Globe posted the interactive map below on their website moments ago, which was quickly pulled as soon as a blogger posted this information on Twitter. There is no way the Boston Globe has any of this data.  It… Read More ›

• Update: Colonel Barfoot Gets to Keep His Flag

  By AWC on January 19, 2010 • ( 1 )

  

  In a recent post I talked about a ridiculous Homeowners Association that was keeping an honored War Veteran from flying a flag in his front yard, and showed you the letter I sent to the Association. According to Fox News,… Read More ›

• Six Miles of Orange County

  By AWC on January 15, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  I’ll be gone for the three day weekend so I did two posts today. This map is from Zillow.  The city shown is Orange, CA which is not a high-end part of the OC but it’s not bad either…it’s a… Read More ›

• Healthcare Reform: The Dirty Trick

  By AWC on January 15, 2010 • ( 0 )

  The current healthcare reform bill uses a dirty trick to “lower costs” that many don’t know about… The benefits of the healthcare reform must not begin until after the next presidential election in 2013. The new taxes on American citizens and insurers… Read More ›

• Government Claims: “Everyone gets a raise!” if Healthcare Reform Passes

  By AWC on January 14, 2010 • ( 0 )

  So besides the “sun tan” tax I mentioned in a post here, how is the government going to pay for healthcare reform? From the same people who want to fine you for underinflated tires and ban black cars to save the environment… Read More ›

• Triple Whammy: Foreclosures Rise, Retail Sales Fall, Unemployment Claims Rise

  By AWC on January 14, 2010 • ( 1 )

  CNBC reports, “Foreclosures jumped 14 percent in December 2009 from the previous month, according to a new report from foreclosure listing Web site RealtyTrac.com. The increase came despite foreclosure suspensions during the holiday season from Citigroup, Bank of America and Fannie… Read More ›

• New California Law: You Can Be Fined $1,000 for Underinflated Tires

  By AWC on January 13, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  The insanity never ends. The California Environmental Protection Agency:Air Resources Board (CARB), to save the earth,  is going to require all California repair shops to check your tire pressure and inflate your tires to the proper pressure.  If this service… Read More ›

• Negative Savings Rate Reaches Great Depression Level

  By AWC on January 12, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  “Government deficits have caused the U.S. savings rate to turn negative for the first time since the Great Depression…” ~Bloomberg This is a good example of why government stimulus sounds good on paper, but does little to help the economy…… Read More ›

• The Crystal Ball Economonitor

  By AWC on January 11, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  There is a new site on my ‘Related Sites’ list along the right hand margin called, the Crystal Ball Economonitor and they are currently running a free trial offer. What is the Crystal Ball Economonitor? Click on image to enlarge. I checked… Read More ›

• Orange County, California-Foreclosure Update

  By AWC on January 9, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  Orange County…the land that brought you Disneyland and the popular TV shows; The Housewives of Orange County, The OC, Laguna Beach and episodes of Beach Patrol and is now a scorched earth land of foreclosures. This is the same Orange… Read More ›

• Obama Promised Transparency: A Promise Broken

  By AWC on January 8, 2010 • ( 1 )

  

  CBS reports, “President Obama wants the final negotiations on health care reform – a reconciliation of the House and Senate versions of the bill – put on a fast track, even if that means breaking an explicit campaign promise.” House… Read More ›

• Four Democrats Flee the Scene, more to come?

  By AWC on January 6, 2010 • ( 1 )

  Democrats hold a majority vote of 60 members in the Senate. As long as they all vote the same direction, anything they want will pass into law, including health care reform. But now, some Democrats are opting to retire instead… Read More ›

• Senators Sellout for Yea Vote on Healthcare Reform

  By AWC on January 3, 2010 • ( 0 )

  United States Constitution: Article IV-Section II, “…the citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states.” This means the federal government cannot treat some states differently than others. For example,when the… Read More ›

• Government Christmas Eve Mischief

  By AWC on December 27, 2009 • ( 0 )

  In keeping with the government’s tradition of voting on things they don’t want us to hear much about, Congress voted on Christmas Eve (when it would be least likely to get reported in the press) to raise the debt ceiling… Read More ›

• MERRY CHRISTMAS!

  By AWC on December 25, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  Happy Holidays to everyone from Woodchuck Radio!

• Mary and Joseph were the Homeless?

  By AWC on December 24, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  Even Christmas is not safe from politicians trying to push their agenda to socialize this country. As the famous economist Thomas Sowell noted in one of his books, politicians like to manipulate the language to serve their purposes.  What we… Read More ›

• Big Government – Your Tan is now Taxable

  By AWC on December 23, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Welcome to BIG GOVERNMENT everyone. Within the healthcare bill that will pass tomorrow, is a new 10% tax on sun tanning to help finance the new healthcare reform bill. Do not for one second think it will stop there. Anything that… Read More ›

• CA Ballot Measure to Raise Income Tax 17.5%

  By AWC on December 22, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  I don’t believe there is any section of the Constitution that says governments should use taxpayer money to buy up shares of corporations so the government can control them.  Do you ever remember reading anything like that in school? So why… Read More ›