Yesterday, U.S. Representative Thaddeus G. McCotter filed the maximum 2000 petition signatures required to seek Michigan’s 11th Congressional District seat. Rep. McCotter spent filing day the same way he spends every day – working hard for the people of Michigan. While managing the GOP’s time under the House’s Committee of the Whole, his resolution honoring the late Ernie Harwell was sent to the full House.

This week, nominated by Tom Costella of Canton, MI, the “Educated Idiots Award” goes to…
Fidel Castro (remember him)?
The communist octogenarian/anachronism has come out of semi-comatose retirement to praise President Obama’s trillion dollar government takeover of Americans’ health care.  Herewith Cuba’s bath-robed butcher sings a few bars of praise for our President:
“We consider [...]

This week, the vast majority of the American people have nominated a motley crew of elitists for the “Educated Idiots Award:”
The arrogant Democrats who will defy the American people and abet Obama’s nearly trillion dollar government takeover of Americans’ health care.
Embodying the arrogant intellectuals unacquainted with real life who foist their [...]

Following are excerpts from a Washington Post column by Democrat pollsters Patrick Caddell and Douglas Schoen.  The pair argue that Democrat efforts to takeover America’s health care system are at odds with America’s feelings on the size and scope of government, and “the American public is overwhelmingly against this bill in its totality even [...]

If you missed Saturday Night Live’s take on Obama’s State of the Union, it’s worth checking out. “Obama’s” take on Martha Coakley, in particular, is hysterical.

As the Obama Administration struggles to come to terms with Tuesday’s election of Republican Scott Brown to the US Senate seat formerly held by Ted Kennedy, Americans are seeing another rise in jobless claims. The Department of Labor’s weekly jobless number rose by 36,000 in the report released this morning.

Initial claims for jobless benefits rose by 36,000 to 482,000 in the week ended Jan. 16, according to the Labor Department’s weekly report Thursday. The previous week’s level was revised upward to 446,000 from 444,000.

Economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires expected a decrease of 4,000 initial claims.

The four-week moving average, which aims to smooth volatility in the data, also increased as well last week. The Labor Department said the four-week moving average increased by 7,000 to 448,250 from the previous week’s revised average of 441,250.