Midtown Facts
Although Midtown is a rather vague term for an area in Memphis, it basically entails Central Gardens, Overton Park, Hein Park near Rhodes College, Cooper Young, Annesdale Snowden, Little Hanoi and the Parkway.
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- February 21, 2012 - Chi Town Gets Gas Break - The Chicago area, which usually leads the nation's highest gas prices, is getting a break at the pump. - Patrick DeHaan, a senior petroleum analyst for GasBuddy.com, says Chicago's apparent discounted gas prices are partly due to local refineries clearing out the winter blend gas to make room for cleaner-burning summer blend. - "Prices across Chicago continue to buck the national trend and have gone down in the last week," said DeHaan. "The national average has gone up 5 cents last week and Chicago dropped about 9 cents a gallon last... More →
- February 19, 2012 - Michelle on Vacation - Again - Michelle Obama has embarked on a skiing vacation with her daughters in Aspen, Colorado, according to the Aspen Daily News. The first lady, who just returned last month from 17 days of relaxation in Hawaii, is skiing in Colorado on Presidents' Day Weekend for the second year in a row. Last year she went to... More →
- February 19, 2012 - Muslim Warned Us - As reported at Gatewaypundit: On May 10, 2008, Sheik Muhammad ABu Al Qat said on TV, "let me bring good tidings to the Muslims: Allah willing, the American empire will very soon collapse...This won’t happen as a result of war. Not at all. Allah will send to America an American Gorbachev, from within. Gorbachev, who brought about the USSR collapse, was one of them. Everybody knows this story. An American Gorbachev will surface in America, and he will destroy this... More →
- February 18, 2012 - For It, But They Don't Want to Pay It - As orthodox Catholic author Steve Kellmeyer points out (in americanthinker.com): - On the one hand, the USCCB (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops) is attacking Obama for forcing them (the bishops) to pay for contraception. On the other hand, the USCCB is pushing forward the idea that taxpayers should pay to extend unemployment insurance (again). - And that's just the beginning of the rich irony. You see, almost none of the parishes in the United States pay unemployment insurance. They get dispensed from the mandate to do so because they are religious organizations. So, if you are employed by a Catholic parish and you get laid off, so long, sucker. You can't collect unemployment because your bishop hasn't paid into unemployment for you.... - Read more:... More →
- February 17, 2012 - Uh Oh - This note from Zerohedge blog: - while we know that total debt to GDP is already over 100% and unlikely to ever decline back to double digits, thus putting into question the marginal utility of debt to generate further economic growth, another just as important question is what is the incremental utility of tax revenue relative to debt issuance, i.e., is America now issuing more debt than it is collecting from tax revenues: a step which would further cement its status as a banana debt... More →
- February 15, 2012 - Not Prepped for This - Sipsey Street Irregulars blog has this item: - "Just days after appearing on the National Geographic TV Show Doomsday Prepper, a prepper from Tennessee has been declared Mentally Defective and his guns have been seized by the government." His first mistake? -- Going on TV and expecting anything different than what he got. Not that this isn't an outrage, just... More →
By Georgeann King, on February 20th, 2012 “We’re very, very lucky to live here. It is very very critical on the streets of Greece now,” said Ashley Webster this morning on Fox Business, reporting on his recent trip to Greece. “We were there in November,” he continued, “but in the three months from when we came back, it’s a mess. There’s a lot [...] [...]
By Georgeann King, on February 20th, 2012 What Republicans ought to stress to everyone who votes in November was succinctly laid out yesterday. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wi) said these prescient words on Meet the Press: “If the president is willing to trample on our constitutional rights in a difficult election year, imagine what will he do in implementing the rest of this law [...] [...]
By Georgeann King, on February 17th, 2012 You probably didn’t see this on network prime time news, but President Obama encountered some opposition in San Francisco where he went for money raising campaign events. The Bay Area Tea Party was there to greet him and let him know they don’t like his stand on religious freedom, the Keystone pipeline and overregulation. Pretty surprising [...] [...]
By Georgeann King, on February 15th, 2012 The Anchoress blogsite shares an interesting anecdote and then draws some conclusions: Planned Parenthood called Paul’s Pantry, part of the St. Vincent de Paul Society and the biggest food pantry in Wisconsin, and asked them to come and pick up donations, which may have been noble, but wasn’t something the Catholic organization [...] [...]
By Georgeann King, on February 13th, 2012 John Bolton talked to Dana Loesch on her radio program at the CPAC conference. Here’s Bolton talking about Operation Fast and Furious and what it means. Last week Congressman Darrell Issa had given a deadline to Eric Holder that came and went. Issa extended the deadline which leads many of us to wonder if he blinked. In [...] [...]
By Georgeann King, on February 12th, 2012 In Catholic theology, the church has three components: the Church Triumphant (those in heaven), the Church Suffering (souls in purgatory) and the Church Militant. The Church Militant, of course, refers to those of us still battling sin on earth. Ephesians says it is also Christians battling “the rulers of the darkness of this world against [...] [...]
By Georgeann King, on February 10th, 2012 The Obama administration’s insistence on abortion and contraceptive coverage in health care is truly scary. The president has a malice towards life that is unlike anything I have ever seen. Remember during his campaign when he said he wouldn’t want his “daughters to be punished with a baby?” His attitude on the life issue was [...] [...]
By Georgeann King, on February 8th, 2012 Congratulations to Geoff Diaz, new president of the Midtown Republican Club. [...]
By Georgeann King, on February 8th, 2012 Santorum’s big win in Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado last night suggests that the conservative wing of the GOP is rousing from its torpor. About time. For someone who didn’t seem like he had a ghost of a chance last summer, Santorum has surprised us all. That is a good thing. He seems to have ignited some [...] [...]
By Georgeann King, on February 7th, 2012 Glenn Beck interviewed Catholic League president Bill Donohue about the Obama administration’s decision to force Catholic hospitals to go against their beliefs and supply contraceptives, abortifacients and abortions to employees. Donohue says “this is going to be fought out with lawsuits, with court decisions, and, dare I say it, maybe even in the streets.” [...]
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