Chart Your Own Political Compass!

Great for political self-awareness: take the quiz and map your Bible-clinging, gun-slinging reactionary views- you misguided anti-progressive, you-

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Unexpected unemployment chart of the day (media tries to help White House spin unemployment numbers)

For the past several months, the media has tried helping the White House spin unemployment numbers. Whenever initial jobless claims go down, media analysts hail it as a sure sign that the “recovery” is gaining strength. When initial claims rise, it’s an “unexpected” sign that the recovery may take a while longer to show some effects. All of that is nonsense. The employment picture hasn’t changed much at all in the past six months despite all of the media spin. Initial jobless claims have been flat since the end of October, as this chart from Uncommon Misperceptions shows: Actually, the...

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Please post charts and stats regarding Obama

I will start.

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Shipping Into The U.S. Unexpectedly Jumped In December

Shipping Into The U.S. Unexpectedly Jumped In December John Carney and Kamelia Angelova Jan. 12, 2010, 4:58 PM Shipping into the U.S. climbed from November to December, defying typical seasonal trends and perhaps demonstrating growing demand in the U.S. "December was a surprisingly good month that put a promising end to 2009," the research company Panjiva said in a report issued today. Specifically: There was a 3% increase in the number of global manufacturers shipping to the U.S. market There was a 2% increase in the number of U.S. companies receiving waterborne shipments from global manufacturers Traditionally, these numbers decline...

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That Horrible Q3 GDP Report Was Even Worse Than You Thought

That Horrible Q3 GDP Report Was Even Worse Than You Thought Joe Weisenthal and Kamelia Angelova Dec. 28, 2009, 5:53 PM Last week the Commerce Department announced that in Q3 GDP had been revised down to 2.2% growth after first clocking in at a brisk 3.8%. The number was the latest blow to those who are still holding out hopes of a V-shaped recovery. Not only was the headline number disappointing, but a deeper drill-down is also depressing. As Goldman Sachs analyst Jan Hatzius pointed out in a recent note, major GDP components, including consumption, residential investment, and business investment...

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CHART OF OBAMACARE'S REAL COST: $1.8 TRILLION OVER TEN YEARS

ObamaCare's true cost of the health care bill being proposed by Harry Reid and his fellow Democrat hucksters is $1.8 trillion over ten years, not the $849 billion as deceptively claimed.

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PELOSI'S HEALTH CARE CHART: THE MOTHER OF ALL BUREAUCRACIES

The Joint Economic Committee (JEC) House Republican staff, which earlier this year created a chart mapping the bureaucratic complexity of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s original health care proposal (H.R. 3200), has combined similar analysis by the House Republican Conference with the earlier chart. The analysis details new additions to the health care bureaucracy contained in the new version of the Speaker’s bill (H.R. 3962) that were not previously listed. Let’s just say the Speaker’s vision for government-run health care hasn’t gotten any simpler.

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Prison Statistics (2008 Chart)

At midyear 2008, there were 4,777 black male inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents being held in state or federal prison and local jails, compared to 1,760 Hispanic male inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents and 727 white male inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents.

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Oppose Big Government? You’re a Racist!

The Obama administration and far-left democrats have been redefining a number of common words lately. Just yesterday (September 20th), the President blatantly defied the Merriam-Webster dictionary definition of taxes. One redefinition that has persisted for several weeks is “racism” and/or “racist”. We’ve all heard it. If you disagree with Obama, you’re a racist. If you are against ObamaCare, you’re a racist. If you’re a capitalist, you’re a racist. If you’re a conservative, you’re a racist. (see handy chart below)And … you might be a racist if you think ACORN, the community organizing group mired for years in one controversy after...

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