Highest Unemployed Americans Since 1948
It must be true… a McClatchy newspaper sez so today.  Right there, above the fold in today’s Charlotte Observer: Dismal Numbers 14.7 million: People unemployed in June, the most ever in records dating to 1948.  (GP Ed. Note - obviously there were more during the Great Depression) 12.1 million:  People unemployed in December 1982, the record before the current downturn. August 1983:  The last time the unemployment rate hit 9.5% 24.5 weeks: The average length of unemployment, also a record. What happened to the Obama

Does MSM coverage of economy affect our perception of its health?
Yesterday, Glenn linked a comment James Taranto made in his Best of the Web column for the on-line edition of the Wall Street Journal: Have you noticed a change in the economic news over the past year or so? It’s a deliberately ambiguous question: The actual news has gotten worse, but the coverage of it has changed in tone. Today, reporters are eagerly looking for the light at the end of the tunnel. A year ago, and for a long time before that, they couldn’t wait to get into the tunnel. The media, as Glen

GayPatriot LA Dinner Tuesday 07/07 @ 7 PM
We’ll be having another gatheing of GayPatriot readers in the Southland, this coming Tuesday 07/07 @ 7 PM.  And we’ll be honoring 007 by drinking our martinis shaken, not stirred. E-mail me for information.

Despite Failure of “Stimulus” to Work as Advertised,President Focuses on Regulatory Schemes, not
Today, the Labor Department released figures showing unemployment hitting new highs, continuing to exceed even the level the Obama Administration forecast it would have attained without the “stimulus”–and considerably higher (considerably, considerably) than Democrats promised if Congress passed the legislation which may well have ended Arlen Specter’s political career. (Hey, ya’ gotta

And Ordinary Looking Actor with an Extraordinary Talent
For the fourth time since I moved to LA, I trekked up to Hollywood Boulevard to honor a legend who had recently passed by laying flowers on his star on the Walk of Fame.  The large wreath is something the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce places over the star of each individual when he dies.  Mine is the smallest bouquet. On my way to Malden’s star, just east of Hollywood & Vine, I passed Michael Jackson’s star just in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater. The s