New data shows positive job creation in Governor Scott Walker’s first year in officeFrom the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: The new figures, provided to the Journal Sentinel on Tuesday, cover the final three months of 2011. State officials said they show a gain of 23,321 jobs (public and private) between December 2010 and December 2011, which represents Gov. Scott Walker’s first full year in office. That stands in sharp contrast to a commonly used and widely reported monthly jobs measure, the Current Employment Survey, which earlier this year showed an estimated loss of 33,900 jobs in Wisconsin for the same 12-month... |
‘Gaia’ Scientist James Lovelock Admits to Being ‘Alarmist’ About Climate ChangeIn a new interview with MSNBC, the scientist who originated the “Gaia” theory that the Earth is a single living organism and who predicted in 2006 that “billions” would die from climate change before the end of this century now says that he and other environmentalists including Al Gore were “extrapolating too far” when they made dire predictions about the effects of global warming: “The problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books... |
Turley: President Obama “says that he can kill you on his own discretion”Hat tip Washington’s Blog Noted constitutional law scholar Jonathan Turley was on C-SPAN yesterday, and he had some pretty scary things to say about the current state of civil liberties under President Obama: President Obama has just stated a policy that he can have any American citizen killed without any charge, without any review, except his own. If he’s satisfied that you are a terrorist, he says that he can kill you anywhere in the world including in the United States. Two of his aides just … reaffirmed they believe that... |