Come join us for the GRAND OPENING of the Lafayette County Republicans Headquarters on Thursday, July 1st

Stop by our new campaign headquarters for Lafayette County Republicans on Thursday, July 1st from 5 to 8 p.m. at 1007 Franklin, Lexington, MO. We will be hosting this grand opening along with the Federated Republican Women's Club of Lafayette County.

Enjoy some delicious, local barbecue and meet some of our candidates.

Hope to see you then.

George Mason Professor Says the Left Flunks Economics 101!

Repost: "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?"
Self-identified liberals and Democrats do badly on questions of basic economics
By Daniel B. Klein, professor of economics at George Mason University, for The Wall Street Journal

Photo by the Associated Press.

See full story here.

The professor's complete article and findings can be found at Econ Journal Watch, Scholarly Comments on Academic Economics.

Here is an excerpt from The Wall Street Journal story:

"Who is better informed about the policy choices facing the country—liberals, conservatives or libertarians? According to a Zogby International survey that I write about in the May issue of Econ Journal Watch, the answer is unequivocal: The left flunks Econ 101.

Zogby researcher Zeljka Buturovic and I considered the 4,835 respondents' (all American adults) answers to eight survey questions about basic economics. We also asked the respondents about their political leanings: progressive/very liberal; liberal; moderate; conservative; very conservative; and libertarian.

Rather than focusing on whether respondents answered a question correctly, we instead looked at whether they answered incorrectly. A response was counted as incorrect only if it was flatly unenlightened...
How did the six ideological groups do overall? Here they are, best to worst, with an average number of incorrect responses from 0 to 8: Very conservative, 1.30; Libertarian, 1.38; Conservative, 1.67; Moderate, 3.67; Liberal, 4.69; Progressive/very liberal, 5.26.

Americans in the first three categories do reasonably well. But the left has trouble squaring economic thinking with their political psychology, morals and aesthetics...

Governmental power joined with wrongheadedness is something terrible, but all too common. Realizing that many of our leaders and their constituents are economically unenlightened sheds light on the troubles that surround us..."

Federal Spending by the Numbers

Massive increases to the national debt that threaten economic collapse are explained in this video from The Heritage Foundation and highlight how the Federal Government is addicted to spending!

A video from Senate Republican Communications Center makes hay with "you never want a serious crisis to go to waste"

Repost from Mike Allen's Playbook:

White House says 51% of company health plans won't meet Obamacare guidelines

Over and over again in the health care debate, President Obama said people who like their current coverage would be able to keep it.

WRONG!

Repost from Washington Examiner:
Columnist Mark Hemingway presents two media stories that indicate that many employers, 51% in fact, will be forced to make changes to their health plans, but Obama said over and over again that people who like their current coverage would be able to keep it.

At Investor's Business Daily, Sean Higgins and David Hogberg have a doozy of a story:
Internal White House documents reveal that 51% of employers may have to relinquish their current health care coverage by 2013 due to ObamaCare. That numbers soars to 66% for small-business employers.
The documents — product of a joint project of the Labor Department, the Health and Human Services Department and the IRS — examine the effects new regulations would have on existing, or “grandfathered,” employer-based health care plans.
Draft copies of the documents were reportedly leaked to House Republicans earlier in the week. Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla., posted them on his Web site Friday afternoon.

The Associated Press is also on the story. Even they can't ignore the dishonesty that was used to sell the health care overhaul:
Over and over in the health care debate, President Barack Obama said people who like their current coverage would be able to keep it.
But an early draft of an administration regulation estimates that many employers will be forced to make changes to their health plans under the new law. In just three years, a majority of workers — 51 percent — will be in plans subject to new federal requirements, according to the draft.