0 - the number of U.S. plant workers or members of the public who have ever been injured or killed by an accident caused by nuclear power, according to an Energy Tribune article by William E. Burchil
0.01 - the current percent of solar power as a source of electricity energy, according to columnist Alan Caruba
0.77 - the current percent of wind power as a source of electricity energy, according to Alan Caruba.
3.3% - The annualized rate that our economy grew between April and June, according to the U.S. Commerce Department
4 to 1 - the ratio of scenes carried by broadcast networks, depicting or implying sex between non-married partners that outnumbered similar scenes between married couples, favoring adultery and promiscuity over marital intimacy, according to a report by The Parents Television Council
6 - Joe Biden’s standing in the Democrat primaries, receiving “virtually no public support”, according to Noel Sheppard of NewsBusters
7 - the number of times Time Magazine has placed Barack “The One” Obama on the cover this year, compared to a paltry two times for John McCain.
14% - the increase in U.S. export sales between April and June, according to the U.S. Commerce Department
17 - The age of a Muslim girl who was shot to death by her father and brother on September 3rd in Sahiwal, Pakistan, for seeking a divorce after being forcibly married at 9, according to www.thereligionofpeace.com/
40% - the amount of decline in deaths from terrorism since 2001, according to new study by Simon Fraser University in Canada, refuting the Obama’s lie that the-world-is-more-dangerous since Bush.
50% - Russian economic freedom is rated at just below 50%, earning Russia the Heritage Foundation’s lowest ranking
58 - the number of states Barack Obama apparently thinks there are in the U.S. In May, Obama said he had visited 57 states in America, and August 24th, the Democrat presidential nominee added another one, declaring, “Eau Claire [Wisconsin] is a big important state.”
65% - the amount of decline in terrorist attacks since 2004, according to the study by Simon Fraser University in Canada
70% - of voters believe that controlling the U.S. borders is more important than legalizing illegal immigrants, a recent Rasmussen survey
75% - of the nation's public universities have speech code policies in force, even though a federal appeals court has found that they are an unconstitutional restriction on the First Amendment rights of students
1,635 tons of carbon pollutants will be spewed into the air by the jet and airplanes used by Madonna, who claims she is committed toward being “environmentally responsible,” and her 250 person entourage in her “Sticky and Sweet” concert tour, according to the Carbonfootprint Web site
3,000 to 10,000 subscribers have canceled their subscriptions to the gossip magazine “US Weekly”, and many complained to advertisers, after the editors attempted to use a recent issue to destroy Governor Sarah Palin, according to columnist Warner Todd Huston
1.3 million - the number of illegal aliens who have voluntarily returned to Mexico, according to FOX News, a benefit from enforcing existing immigration laws
$4 million - the amount John Edwards has returned to individual contributors, a number of them, bundlers and big backers. The “little people” got far less, according to columnist P.J. Gladnick who reviewed the information at: OpenSecrets.org and Federal Election Commission data.
1.8 billion - the number of acres of the Outer Continental Shelf - with roughly 100 billion barrels of recoverable oil and 400 trillion feet of natural gas - that are off-limits because of the congressional moratorium
10 billion to 20 billion - the number of barrels of oil in ANWR, according to the U.S. Geological Survey
100 billion - the number of barrels of oil in the Arctic, and roughly one-third of these under sovereign U.S. territory in Alaska, according to the U.S. Geological Survey
$620 billion - the total federal, state and local government expenditures on 85 welfare programs in 2005, larger than national defense ($495 billion) or public education ($472 billion). The 2005 official poverty count was 37 million persons. That means welfare expenditures per poor person were $16,750, or $67,000 for a poor family of four, according to Edgar K. Browning, a Texas A&M University economics professor, and the author of "Stealing from Each Other: How the Welfare State Robs Americans of Money and Spirit"
800 billion to 2 trillion - the number of barrels of oil in the Rocky Mountain shale formations, according to old estimate from the U.S. Geological Survey
$1.6 trillion - the annual amount of U.S. sales abroad; “more than ever before in our history,” according to columnist Donald Lambro
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