Biden Earned $21,000 Last Year From the Secret Service.......

However...THEY want all of US to pay OUR "Fair Share"...when do they??? Their behavior is staring to resemble Rulers....not Leaders. 

 No, he’s not moonlighting as an agent.

Vice President Joe Biden last year earned $20,900 in rental income from the Secret Service, which is paying him to host agents on his property so they can protect him.

Most high-profile people in need of protection pay people to keep them safe. Government officials are allowed to have taxpayers pick up the tab. Biden is unique in that he actually gets paid by his bodyguards for the right to protect him.

Tax refunds being used to pay for bankruptcy filings ....

But the economy is fine.....robust.....growing.....yeah....RIGHT.....

The NBER research confirms what bankruptcy lawyers have long known: At the first part of the year, when Americans receive their tax refunds, there almost always is a spike in personal bankruptcy filings.

Mitt Romney warns NRA against an 'unrestrained' second-term Obama.......

Although gun control groups have complained that Obama has done little to support their cause, Romney took a page from the NRA leadership, which has been saying that the president is waiting for a second term to crack down on firearms. He warned that Obama would “remake” the Supreme Court in a second term, threatening constitutional freedoms.

Obamas' 2011 Federal Tax Bill: $162,000 ......

 President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, paid $162,000 in federal income taxes in 2011 on $845,000 in total income, according to tax returns released just ahead of the national income-tax-filing deadline.

The president's effective tax rate was 19%, compared with an effective tax rate of 14% for 2010 for the probable Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney. The campaign hasn't released Mr. Romney's 2011 tax return.

Who foots bill when Obama travels? ....Take a wild guess.....

While Mr. Obama can rely on Air Force One and other military aircraft at his disposal for official business, federal election laws require his campaign to pay for these presidential perquisites at just a fraction of the cost — the equivalent of a commercial airline ticket — whenever he or other administration officials are using federal government resources for political activity.

MUST WATCH: Santelli Crushes 'Buffett Rule'

"You know what, how are my kid’s opportunities affected by how many millionaires there are? I don’t see that their opportunities are affected! You know what I see that’s going to affect their opportunities? 15.6 Trillion!"

Reliance Group Bails Out Obama Allies at Dreamworks

Part of it is likely the fact that Spielberg and Geffen are both close with the Obama administration. The Reliance Group has dealt with the Obama administration in questionable ways. In June 2010, the Export-Import Bank of the United States rejected a loan guarantee to Reliance to buy $600 million worth of equipment due to environmental concerns. When Democrats complained that 1,000 jobs would die if the deal didn’t happen, the Obama administration stepped in – and suddenly, the Bank gave the loan, with the condition that Reliance promised to build an enormous renewable project in India.

Taxpayers Set to Lose $30 Billion on the Auto Bailout.....

Do we get this reported ANYWHERE. Lord doesn't America yearn for a REAL Reporter? Just ONE. Someone with a moral compass, able to report the ENTIRE picture. Both sides...every side - intelligently. With honor... without an agenda other than doing their job RIGHT. 

Is there anyone out there? 

I hear cricket's chirping when it's bad news for Obama......Bull Horns when it's bad news for the Republicans.....and hordes of lazy American's living and deciding by soundbite.

But that’s a fudge-y number.

Right now, we’re actually losing nearly $15 billion on our shares. On a stock that dropped by a third just after the bailout, and has basically flatlined ever since.

So that ups the auto bailout loss to about $30 billion. At least.

On ‘Romneycare’ Birthday, Video Traces Ties to ‘Obamacare’ .....

Romneycare does NOT work. It is a hidden joke. Propped up by Washington money.

Mitt says it "isn't" in it's final form what he proposed, yet he doubles down on how "great" it is. Come to my house....come to my Company. I'll show you how great it isn't.

The Obama campaign is marking the six-year anniversary of Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts health care law with a new mini-documentary that traces its path from “model for the nation” to Republicans’ enemy number one.

The three-minute video features key figures who helped craft “Romneycare” and appeared in public with then-Gov. Romney as he heralded passage of the landmark law in 2006.

The Oval episode 1: “The Imperial City” – Glenn Beck

I don't care what you think of Glenn beck....what he is doing here is important. 

We NEED to be reminded how wonderful our Country is. Our Leaders.....right...aren't doing it any longer. They seem only capable of pulling our country down. 

They attack our industry, our history, our military...our very way of life. 

And it isn't an attack from a foreign entity...it's from within. Our own Government. 

Do I think there is a fundamental change being instituted in our country right now...I do. It's been coming for a LONG time....and it came at us with eyes wide open. 

But now, for perhaps the first time in 100 years...our eyes ARE wide open. We're seeing what is happening.....the sleeping giant is waking. 

We MUST wake it up fully. 

We MUST take our land back. 

We MUST go back to the principals set forth in our magnificent Constitution and Declaration. 

Take the time and listen to this. I don't always agree with Glenn...but here I do. 

America isn't perfect....but in today's world...it's the damn closest thing....and it's slipping away like sand through our fingers.

My fellow Americans, today we are going to try something new.

I am going to sit here and say what we all know is true… but which everyone is afraid to say.

I am going to talk about what made this country is great… but why it is risking its greatness.

This is what our leaders should be doing. This is what our leaders are paid to do. This is why we give them advisers… and airplanes to travel the world… and beautiful offices, just like this one.

But they don’t do it. They won’t do it.

So I will.

Hilary Rosen, Democratic Strategist Attacks Mitt Romney’s Wife ...."Never worked a day in her life"......REALLY?

Can you IMAGINE if a Republican said this about a Democratic woman? I can.....however...regardless of what the "drive by" media's reaction would be...it being said would be just as vile.

I chose not to have kids...one of the reasons is because I didn't think I had the strength it takes to raise children. The inner fortitude it takes to raise a child - children each and every day...it  takes an inner strength many of us can't fathom. To say raising 5 beautiful, successful children as never working a day in her life? This from an Administration that manufactured the "War on Woman"...who took the first shot now...?
From an Administration that will FIGHT for abortion, but laugh at the Family structure. REALLY?

Imagine the outrage if a Republican strategist referred to a stay-at-home mom by saying that she was someone who “never worked a day in her life.” How about a mother of five?

A Republican strategist did not say that. But a Democrat did… and it was a female, Democrat strategist.

During an appearance on Anderson Cooper’s “AC360” last night, Democratic strategist and CNN regular Hilary Rosen said something similar about Mitt Romney’s wife Ann when she told Anderson:

Big government, big business, big profits ........small company....not so much......

It is literally like a desert out here for Small Business...I know....we're one. 

Yet....if you keeps your wits about you....have friends and family to lean on...you'll survive. 

However...We didn't go into business to just "survive"...my plan was to THRIVE. This Administration does everything it can to insure that NEVER happens. We were discussing on the way in today...you know...at the butt crack of dawn...that if ALL the stimulus money and government prop up money was removed entirely from the US economy...the thud you'd hear would cause a Tsunami across Europe it would be so powerful...

Meanwhile new business formation is at a 30-year low. These two dynamics are both fruits from the same tree. That is, increased corporatism -- more regulation, more subsidies -- helps big, established, politically connected businesses, while preventing new entrants and killing small business.

Biden: Al Franken is a 'leading legal scholar' .....

Blew coffee out my nose when I saw this headline.....

Vice President Joe Biden described former Saturday Night Live comedian, Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., as a "leading legal scholar," presumably in the Senate, today.

"He has been one of the leading legal scholars," Biden said of Franken today, according to the pool report. He also said that Franken "is deadly serious" as a senator. He made the comments while recalling concerns that then-candidate Franken could not be taken seriously as a Senate candidate given his SNL work.

Prosecutor to announce Zimmerman charges; Twitter vigilantes gloat over ‘dead man walking’ ......

Ahhhhh.....more left wing civility.....

With this afternoon’s news that George Zimmerman will likely be charged, many on Twitter predicted and/or celebrated the possibility that someone will physically harm Zimmerman while he is in prison:

Paying their fair share -- In Three Charts ......

The Buffett Tax, because it won't raise revenue, should be understood mostly as Election-Year demagoguery. And like most demagoguery, it is not well grounded in facts.

The basic argument is that the rich don't pay their fair share in taxes. Rather than data, President Obama relies on anecdote -- that Warren Buffett supposedly pays taxes at a lower rate than his secretary does. Let me present some data to the contrary.

Astronauts condemn NASA’s global warming endorsement.........

In an unprecedented slap at NASA’s endorsement of global warming science, nearly 50 former astronauts and scientists--including the ex-boss of the Johnson Space Center--claim the agency is on the wrong side of science and must change course or ruin the reputation of the world’s top space agency.

America's Debt Is Greater than Entire Eurozone's (and U.K.'s) Combined Debt ......

Nice....................

As the chart shows, America's debt is currently $15.1 trillion, while the Eurozone (which includes France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain, the U.K., and others) has a combined debt of $12.7 trillion. (All dollar amounts are in U.S. dollars, and the data refers to closing 2011 numbers.)

Obama speeches ‘exactly same’ a year apart...Hilarious...if it weren't so sad.....

When it comes to politicians, they often say the same thing over and over.

That statement is taken to a new level when comparing budget speeches from President Obama, one from 2011 and one from 2012.

The Republican National Committee has produced a video showing separate speeches a year apart from Obama talking about financial issues.

Can government do anything well?

I’m suspicious of superstitions, like astrology or the belief that “green jobs will fix the environment and the economy.” I understand the appeal of such beliefs. People crave simple answers and want to believe that some higher power determines our fates.

The most socially destructive superstition of all is the intuitively appealing belief that problems are best solved by government.

Opinion polls suggest that Americans are dissatisfied with government. Yet whenever another crisis hits, the natural human instinct is to say, “Why doesn’t the government do something?”

Obama speeches ‘exactly same’ a year apart.....

When it comes to politicians, they often say the same thing over and over.

That statement is taken to a new level when comparing budget speeches from President Obama, one from 2011 and one from 2012.

New Black Panther Party chief of staff Michelle Williams apologizes after George Zimmerman radio outburst.....

But....she was just being "passionate...."

Michelle said during the interview, "Let me tell you, the things that's about to happen, to these honkeys, these crackers, these pigs, these pink people, these ---- people. It has been long overdue. My prize right now this evening ... is gonna be the bounty, the arrest, dead or alive, for George Zimmerman. You feel me?"

Obama Calls Reagan a ‘Wild-Eyed Socialist’.....On what Planet exactly?

I'm more and more convinced he's starting to lose it.....what "it" is to him, I have no idea...but he's losing it regardless....

 President Obama made a startling exclamation Wednesday at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building by suggesting that his new Buffett rule — increased taxes for the highest income earners — was the same “concept” as what Ronald Reagan would have “called for.“ He also went on to jokingly call the conservative hero a ”wild-eyed socialist.”

Rep. Cleaver faces Bank of America suit, but could be bailed out by taxpayers.....and we are surprised?

You get what you elect - you get what you deserve.....

Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), who is facing a lawsuit for failing to pay down a 2002 Bank of America loan that he used to buy a car wash in Missouri, could have a good chunk of the $1.5 million he owes paid off by taxpayers.

Federal Employees Got Bonuses For Planning Agency's Lavish 2010 Event, Investigation Reveals....

Why is anyone surprised...???


That appears to be incentive offered by the federal agency under fire for spending lavishly on a 2010 conference held near Las Vegas. The latest details from an inspector general report on the conference reveal 50 employees were given cash awards of $500 and $1,000 for their work arranging the now-infamous conference.

Not "associated" with the Volt........yeah....RIGHT....Prototype battery blamed in explosion at GM's Tech Center .....

Warren— General Motors Co. said a Wednesday explosion at a battery lab in the General Motors Technical Center that seriously injured one person was unrelated to the Chevrolet Volt or any other production vehicle, but was related to "extreme testing on a prototype battery."

What Is the Truth About the Buffett Rule?

Stop listening to the sound bites. The President is a MASTER at rhetoric. 

Read, learn, listen. ...

This election may be the most important of our lifetime. 

Don't be lazy. We're all busy, we ALL have no time. Make time. 

Learn...listen....live free.

Will the President’s tax hike at least tackle the country’s fiscal problems? No, it won’t.

Obama On Free Markets: "We Tried It. It's Not Like We Did Not Try" ......

"If we would just convert these investments that we're making through out government in education, research and healthcare. If we just turn those into tax cuts, especially for the wealthy, then somehow the economy is going to grow stronger. That's the theory," President Obama said about the right at a campaign event on the tax code in Boca Raton, Florida today.

Gov.'t Contracts you want.....?...only if Michele says OK!.....

Marie Antoinette strikes again!

Want to win a contract to operate concessions on federal property? Be ready to explain how your business promotes Obama administration desires like “climate friendly strategies” and the first lady’s “Let’s Move!” anti-childhood obesity effort.

Proposal documents obtained by The Daily Caller reveal that the National Park Service favors those who promote these Obama White House priorities when deciding which concessioners they will allow to operate businesses on federally owned property.

The Truth About the Health Care Bills.....

We checked after reading this to verify it's authenticity. It's real...what he says is real...what he sites is real....what's coming is a REAL Nightmare....please pass this on and tell others to take the time to READ!

However, as scary as all of that is, it just scratches the surface. In fact, I have concluded that this legislation really has no intention of providing affordable health care choices. Instead it is a convenient cover for the most massive transfer of power to the Executive Branch of government that has ever occurred, or even been contemplated. If this law or a similar one is adopted, major portions of the Constitution of the United States will effectively have been destroyed.

SC CCW Holder Holds Church Gunman At Gunpoint; Prevents Possible Mass Shooting ........

A SC CCW holder held a man at gunpoint who kicked in the side door of a church during Sunday services. The man was wielding a shotgun. Fortunately the pastor’s grandson, who has a permit to carry in SC, drew his own gun and held the man at gunpoint while other congregation members disarmed and restrained the man until officers could arrive. The gunman has been charged with several felonies and said he did it because he was angry about having his children taken away from him.

Hackers steal hundreds of thousands of Social Security numbers.....

Can't WAIT til the Government has control of ALL this information for Hackers....

Officials originally estimated that about 24,000 people had their records stolen after a computer tracked to Eastern Europe infiltrated a server beginning March 30, then changed that number to 182,000 victims.

Health officials now believe a total of nearly 900,000 people have had their personal data stolen.

Elephant on Mars -- sculpted by lava flow ....

Extraterrestrial PROOF that the Galaxy KNOWS the Republicans are Right! Even in "Mars Attacks" - they said "Can't we all just get along?"....Partisan proof it's the Left's fault!!!!!!!

The dried flood of lava over the surface of Mars has created the spitting image of the eye and trunk of an elephant.

The curve of the animal's forehead and the dent of an ear also appear in a new photo taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

"This is a good example of the phenomena 'pareidolia,' where we see things (such as animals) that aren't really there," University of Arizona planetary geologist Alfred McEwen wrote in an update posted on the university's HiRISE website.

Video: George W. Bush: Wish tax cuts not in my name ....

Once again he shows class by wishing the cuts we enjoy weren't in his name - thus a target....

George W. Bush: Wish tax cuts not in my name

NBC's Curry Rips Ryan Budget: 'Where is the Empathy?' Won't Poor People 'Suffer'? ........

Where's the "Empathy" for us "Poor" slubs WORKING OUR COLLECTIVE ASSES OFF each day? Hummmmmm? GET OUT of my wallet, kitchen, bedroom, school, car, work place, cell phone....AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Curry failed to make any mention of the organization's clearly liberal agenda. The Center of Budget and Policy Priorities mission statement reads: "The Center conducts research and analysis to help shape public debates over proposed budget and tax policies and to help ensure that policymakers consider the needs of low-income families and individuals in these debates. We also develop policy options to alleviate poverty."

Obama's in the house - plan for possible traffic snarls

Funny...he wants to tax the stuffing out of them...however he has no problem taking the money THEY MADE....

President Obama makes his first visit to Palm Beach County as chief executive today -- raising campaign cash in Palm Beach Gardens and calling for higher taxes on the wealthy in Boca Raton before heading to more fundraisers in Hollywood and Golden Beach.

The presidential visit could cause some traffic snarls as Obama moves about the county.

Why the Washington Post is wrong about Stand Your Ground laws.....

It's so much easier to call it "Kill at Will" rather than take the damned time to READ the law.....

 The Washington Post has made clear its opposition to — and persistent misunderstanding of — the set of self-defense laws known as Stand Your Ground. Its March 29 editorial was headlined “A rise in homicides after ‘Stand Your Ground,’” even though homicides per capita in Florida have dropped, not risen, since that state enacted its law.

Zimmerman family challenges Holder on New Black Panthers, says no arrests ‘based solely on your race’.....

Darn good question I would say - especially after that published "Conference Call" from the Panthers basically calling for "blood in the streets"...

Cannot imagine the hand wringing if someone "white" had made those same comments. I have to believe they'd have gotten a visit from the FBI by now!

In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller, a family member of George Zimmerman asked the nation’s top law enforcement officer why he has chosen to not arrest members of the New Black Panther Party for their rhetoric — some of which may fit the federal government’s definition of a hate crime — throughout the Trayvon Martin case.

The family member believes the reason Holder hasn’t made those arrests is because he, like the members of the New Black Panther Party, is black.

Metropolitan Baptist Church Won’t Let Hannity Play Jeremiah Wright Sermon......

You cannot tell me...us...that Rev. Wright did this to be quiet....to be secretive....he's SHOUTING from the roof tops...and we'd better SHOUT BACK!

Metropolitan Baptist Church in Charleston, West Virginia, has refused to allow Fox News to play the controversial Jeremiah Wright videos from their revival last weekend.

The shocking, class warfare rhetoric, which was originally seen in full videos the church posted on its web site, was first revealed by The Blaze on Monday. Last night, despite video limitations, Fox News host Sean Hannity covered Wright’s shocking statements on his program.

White House Basketballs Adorned With Obama’s Image....just imagine GWB doing this......

As part of its Easter Egg Roll festivities, the White House is conducting a basketball clinic for kids featuring pro players. Have a look the ball being used, as Tweeted by ABC White House Correspondent Jake Tapper.

"War on Women" Rhetoric Shows That Lies Work....

I have trouble believing people are THIS STUPID. 

However, I do know people are LAZY about what is so damned important and just listen to sound bites....

SHOUT IT FROM THE HILLS! We're NOT going to take this ANYMORE!

Democrats think they're on to something, and they're not giving up on their latest "divide and conquer" tactic, straight out of their century-long "Progressive" playbook (along with Saul Alinsky's manual for the left) that aims to gain and keep political power by causing certain Americans to dislike or distrust other Americans.

Whether it's pitting whites against non-whites, the rich against the not-rich, the old against the not-old (through Medi-scare arguments), or -- as has been the subject of the latest full-court press -- women against Republicans (because, presumably, all Republicans are men), the left's electoral strategy is one of inculcating hate among the citizens. So much for their vaunted tolerance and diversity.

Guess What, Mr. President?...The Oil Industry DOES NOT recieve "subsidies"...

In contrast to renewables, the oil and gas industry receives about $2.8 billion in tax preferences. Not only do these incentives pale by comparison to the subsidies for wind and solar, especially when compared on a Btu-equivalent basis, but the economy gets a lot more bang for the buck.

The Center for American Progress’ War on Veterans......

 We cut the military....The Best among US. I think the last figure I heard was 100,000. We cut their retirement benefits. GOOD GOOD folks I know in our military are thinking of leaving before they lose what they EARNED. EARNED. Folks I know that have seen battle. Who have watched friends DIE for US. Pretty soon our military will be a shadow of what it is today....the BEST THERE IS. Me thinks this is part of the PLAN.

While spending under Obama has dramatically increased, the only part of the budget that the radical administration appears to be willing to cut is military spending. But cuts to military spending don’t just involve hardware, but also target human beings. The most shameful cuts involve dramatic increases to health care costs for veterans.

Health-care law will add $340 billion to deficit, new study finds.....WHAT a surprise....?...NOT!

WHY WHY WHY does ANYONE in their RIGHT MIND ( That may be the caveat ) think ANYTHING the Government "takes over" would be more cost effective? 

This hasn't even BEEN IMPLEMENTED and it's blowing apart our economy. I mean.....destroying what is left of our economy! 

What does anyone think THEY can do it better than US? We put them in Office!!!

WE THE PEOPLE. 

We ARE smarter than those arrogant ( most ) jerks that claim to be our "leaders". 

If only WE THE PEOPLE would WAKE UP!

 President Obama’s landmark health-care initiative, long touted as a means to control costs, will actually add more than $340 billion to the nation’s budget woes over the next decade, according to a new study by a Republican member of the board that oversees Medicare financing.

White House Won't Let Rep. Issa Question Key Staffer About Fast and Furious

If they are all so innocent....why block Issa?

The most transparent administration ever has just invoked Executive Privilege in refusing to allow Congressman Issa and Senator Grassley to question former NSA White House staffer, Kevin O'Reilly regarding Operation Fast and Furious.

Kathryn Ruemmler, counsel to the president, denied Issa's demand to speak with O'Reilly.

White House stealthily diverts $500 million to IRS for Obamacare enforcement

You would think a "Health Care" Bill would get funding for...Oh...better software, cost cutting state of the art machinery, etc....etc....Not the IRS......tells you ALOT about this bill doesn't it?
 President Obama is playing shell game with tax dollars in order to rush implementation of Obamacare before the Supreme Court strikes it down.

It may also be a ploy to bring Obamacare implementation so far along, that the Supreme Court will be reluctant to overturn the entire bill.

Fracking is Blamed for … Well, Everything, Really.....

“… There’s a thing called fracking. They’ve got to go crack the rock in order to get [oil and gas] out. You can environmentally do that well or you can environmentally do that poorly,” the vice president said.

“If you do it poorly, you use up the water aquifer. [Huh?! - Ed.] You can create, in some cases the argument is, earthquakes,” he concluded.

Gun Advocate thought of as "Evil" by Obama.....

Economist John Lott, noted for his academic advocacy of gun rights, says that when Barack Obama was his colleague at the University of Chicago, the future president treated him as if he were “evil.”

Former GSA Head Rejects Push To 'blame' Bush Administration Over Vegas Conference......

The former head of the General Services Administration blasted the Obama administration Monday for blaming its predecessor over the lavish Las Vegas conference thrown by a division of that agency.

Lurita Doan, who headed the agency under then-President George W. Bush until her resignation in 2008, told Fox News that President Obama's team is trying to "divert attention" from its own scandal.

Orlando's Rep. Adams: Rep. Sandy Adams fears Obama power grab .....

 This is SO important to watch. The Press kept it below the radar. Funny - they'll be crushed by this power too if unleashed!

A White House order updating federal emergency powers has raised alarm among some conservative commentators, and U.S. Rep. Sandy Adams, that President Barack Obama is attempting to grab unconstitutional powers.

A columnist with The Washington Times declared the mid-March order — an update of a 60-year-old document outlining the president's authority in a national emergency — "stunning in its audacity and a flagrant violation of the Constitution." The conservative Drudge Report website linked to it with the headline, "Martial Law?"

Government Surveillance Crackdown On Internet Goes Into Overdrive .....

If this happened under Bush - they would be SCREAMING because of the law of unintended consequences. We should be SCREAMING anyway!

While Clarke may well be coming at this subject well intentioned, the fact that government has a long history of attempting to crackdown on internet freedom and control the web will mean his words are a cause of concern for many.

O'Keefe Voter Fraud Investigation: Young Man Offered Holder's Ballot

The video shows a young man entering a Washington, DC polling place at 3401 Nebraska Avenue, NW, on primary day of this year – April 3, 2012 – and giving Holder’s name and address. The poll worker promptly offers the young man Holder’s ballot to vote.

Holder has maintained that voter fraud is not a major problem in the United States, and that voter ID would not curb voter fraud in any case.

Don Cheadle More Outraged By NBC's EditGate Than Politico

Good for him...

Don Cheadle, actor and anti-genocide activist, mocked NBC News and accused the network of "bias" for their broadcast of an edited 911 tape portraying Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman as a racist.

"Dear NBC News, Huh???" Cheadle tweeted along with a link to the story containing NBC's apology. "It was 'an error made in the production process that we deeply regret.' Really? 'Error?'" he added in a follow-up tweet. "Anybody out there know anything about editing?"

Record 87,897,000 Americans Not in the Labor Force

Amid disappointing unemployment numbers that fell 80,000 jobs short of projections, another number is raising eyebrows: the number of Americans not in the labor force has hit a record high 87,897,000.

This figure explains why overall unemployment dropped from 8.3% to 8.2%, as the Department of Labor's unemployment figure does not include people who have given up hope and are not actively seeking employment.

CNN Guest: Having Palin On Today Show Cheapens NBC News Journalistic Brand More Than Edited Zimmerman Tape

NBC...Journalistic? Haven't seen those two in same sentence in decades!

“It showed how frightened they [NBC] are by the move that GMA is making on them, number one. I also think the fact that GMA and ABC said, ‘Hey, we can throw Couric out here occasionally,’ scared them and rattled them. But more importantly, bringing Sarah Palin on that show, even if it got you a little ratings bump for the day she was on and it deflected some attention from Katie Couric, was another case of Today cheapening the journalistic brand of NBC News, which runs that show.” - David Zurawik