BLUF: [Washington Examiner] USAID's inspector general office was also vacant from 2011 to 2014. The acting inspector general, Michael Carroll, resigned after whistleblowers accused him of whitewashing reports that were critical of the agency as he awaited Senate confirmation to the permanent position. Hand in cookie jar? Ok then fukital, we'll just have no Inspector General. Hows that ?
[Daily Caller] The mining and coal industries lost tens of thousands of jobs last year alone according to federal data, mostly due to federal regulations and low-priced natural gas.
Mark Perry, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, aggregated data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics into a chart.
The chart provides no racial or political demographics, but I suspect we could hazard a guess.
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WV and Kentucky are especially hard hit. Government tax revenue is gone. Well over 38 million for WV. alone. Small towns are being abandoned. Bankrupts galore among coal mining operations and all support industries. So what does government do, raise taxes. A worker in the mine could take home $2000. after taxes. Now what is his take home on a low wage part time job. Women and children will get government aid. Men will just have to move along. Prime target for China to come in and buy up everything cheap. Perhaps our own garden variety slickers.
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But, but, but you don't understand. Inexpensive coal means Warren Buffet's oil trains don't run on time and our wind and solar energy plans are dashed. The market will adapt! Investors will move from dirty coal to wind and solar, you'll see.
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Mr. B I put that slickers word in for you. Ninety some fellow 40 years ago said that word. He went on to say"in my day we would've strung-em up" yup!.
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OH ! just remembered, It was in a small country store with an old timer called crackers working there also. He was working the register and he was ninety some. He was called crackers because as a child he couldn't afford candy so he got crackers out of the cracker barrel, hence the nickname crackers. Boyd's country store. Still there I think. Between Fredrick and 495 beltway.
[Statesman] The state's top criminal court on Wednesday threw out the remaining criminal charge against Rick Perry, sparing the former governor from trial and a potential prison sentence on a felony charge of misusing the power of his office. a political hit via Travis County Democrats
The charge, related to Perry's 2013 threat to veto money for Travis County prosecutors in an attempt to force Drunken Assh0le District Attorney Rosemary "Do you know who I AM?" Lehmberg from office, violated the Texas Constitution's separation of powers provision by improperly limiting the governor's veto authority, the Court of Criminal Appeals said in a ruling from which two of eight judges dissented.
"The constitution does not purport to impose any restriction on the veto power based on the reason for the veto, and it does not purport to allow any other substantive limitations to be placed on the use of a veto," said the opinion by Presiding Judge Sharon Keller.
The state's highest criminal court ordered the remaining criminal charge against Rick Perry to be dropped Wednesday. The damage is done
"The governor's power to exercise a veto may not be circumscribed by the Legislature, by the courts, or by district attorneys," Keller wrote. "When the only act that is being prosecuted is a veto, then the prosecution itself violates separation of powers."
The court also spared Perry from a second felony charge of coercion of a public official, ruling that a lower court correctly tossed out the law last summer as unconstitutionally vague and a violation of free speech rights. "And General Dickishness"
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But the political hit is complete. Dems won that one and destroyed a decent man.
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He won't be president, but I imagine he'd be a wonderful senator... or head of something domestic in the new president's cabinet.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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