Morning Briefing
For August 12, 2013
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1. Lamar Alexander’s Taxpayer-Funded Campaign Monument
If you want to understand everything that is
wrong with the current crop of leaders in both parties, take a look at
this story out of Nashville by local investigative reporter Ben Hall.
Evidently, Lamar’s top campaign staffers were
coordinating the creation of a traveling exhibit of Senator Alexander
with the taxpayer-funded Tennessee State Museum. The
exhibit, which would paint a acclamatory picture of the senior senator,
was originally going to be deployed towards the end of this year and
into 2014, to coincide with his reelection campaign…that is..until Ben
Hall caught them in the act.
The taxpayer-supported museum had been
working with Alexander’s campaign on an exhibit that would travel across
the state — while the senator was running for re-election. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. Washington Post buries its allegation that Terry McAuliffe’s Greentech lied to VEDP
There’s a good bit here of interest in this
surprisingly hostile Washington Post article on Democratic gubernatorial
candidate Terry McAuliffe* and his horrible, awful, no good kiddie
electric car company GreenTech, but one particular bit jumps out. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. 40% Growth in Oil and Gas Jobs Since 2007
Jobs in the oil and gas sector have grown 40
percent in the last five years, helping to counteract the tepid one
percent increase in total U.S. employment.
The oil and natural gas industry created more
than 162,000 jobs from 2007 to 2012 in drilling, extraction and support
services, according to a report by the Labor Department’s Bureau of
Labor Statistics released Friday. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4. Democrats: Filner Magically Cured Of The Pervs In Less Than Two Weeks
Bob Filner has emerged early from the therapy it’s claimed he went to after his raging case of Pervs was cured, say Democrats. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
5. The real class war
Somehow Marxist class theory has been written into American politics at the genetic level. It’s easy to understand why politicians, especially the dedicated Big Government types, want us to think this way. We never should have played along. But
we did, so now Americans view themselves as a great, shapeless, saintly
Middle Class, floating above a shadowy Lower Class from which we have
no right to expect anything. Riding
atop the system is a faceless, hated Upper Class that is morally
obliged to pay for everything our noble, selfless Government wants to
do. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
6. Missouri Voters May Get The Right To Vote For Employee Choice
With
more than 91% of its workforce union free, Missouri is still one of
those states that allow unions to have employees fired from their jobs
for refusing to pay union dues. However, that could change. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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Erick Erickson
Editor-in-Chief, RedState
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