Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute says that the backdoor negotiations on solving the fiscal cliff and reducing the deficit are irksome because our fiscal problem is excessive government spending. Red ink is merely a symptom of that underlying problem. Politicians…
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GOP: Hurling Conservatism Over A Cliff
The GOP machine has become a bunch of liberal Democrats whose only care is to retain their power. If this were not the case, they would have pulled out all the stops and fought Democrats’ excessive spending over the last four…
RINOs Had Better Start Looking Over Their Shoulders
Jim DeMint’s departure from the Senate for the Heritage Foundation will put an end to a key promise the confrontational conservative made his peers: Not to attack incumbent senators. In fact, Senate Republicans up for reelection in 2014 who have tangled…
Sign The Petition: Obama Should Stay Home
“Somerset County is Maryland’s poorest county. The towns of Crisfield, Fairmount and Deal Island were devastated by hurricane Sandy, with flood waters causing widespread damage. These poor, working, waterfront communities were already fragile from the decline of the seafood industry. Superstorm…
ObamaEd: Killing Innovation
President Obama’s bid to control what your children learn in school is surely one of the most important and disturbing of his many transformative plans. Not only is Obama’s attempt to devise what is in effect a national K–12 school…
Bless Your Heart: Drop Your Drawers and Bend Over
According to Reuters, the Internal Revenue Service has released new proposed regulations for investment income taxes on capital gains and dividends earned by high-income individuals that passed Congress as part of the 2010 healthcare reform law. The 159 pages of…
John Kerry: To Forgive Is Divine, To Forget Is Stupid
While seemingly to joke, Senator John McCain recently referred to his good buddy John Kerry as the next Secretary of State. Has Senator McCain’s let us in on the secret to his disdain for front-runner, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice or are…
Socialized Health Care: Backdoor Euthanasia
I wrote in a previous article about problems associated with the UK Socialized health care program, in particular a program instituted to save money, the “Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP). The LCP was initially instituted to care for patients close to…
You’ve Got Mail
A US Senate panel approved a bill to boost email privacy protections in a vote Thursday that followed widespread uproar over the FBI probe that toppled CIA director David Petraeus. The measure, which if enacted would require police to obtain…
Progressives Eyeing 2013 Virginia Governors Race
As I reported last week, now that Lt. Governor Bill Bolling has dropped out of the campaign, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is the lone Republican seeking the Virginia Governor’s office. Meet his competition. Tom Perriello is reportedly considering a bid…
Come To America: The Land Of Free Stuff
A website run by the federal government (“WelcomeToUSA.gov“) encourages new immigrants to the United States to apply for welfare benefits. Operated by the Department of Homeland Security, this website “is the U.S. Government’s official web portal for new immigrants.” On…
GITMO In The U.S.A.
There’s a showdown happening in Washington and it could get very ugly soon. Will President Barack Obama’s first-term promise to close down Guantánamo Bay and bring Gitmo detainees to the U.S become a reality or will the Republicans with the…
Will Obama Release His Justification For Kill List?
In a surprising bipartisan move Congressmen Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Ron Paul (R-TX) and Rush Holt Jr. (D-NJ) introduced H. Res. 819, a resolution of inquiry to compel Obama to release documents which he reportedly uses as the legal justification for the use…
Morsi vs. Obama: The Professional vs. The Amateur
Someone once said that whenever the savages fight the civilized, the savages always win. The same can be said when professionals face off against amateurs: the professionals win hands down, leaving the amateurs with egg all over their faces. The…
The Fiscal Cliff In Nondefinable Terms
The biggest question we have to ask ourselves is there really a fiscal cliff or is it just the matter of a crisis too good to waste? Is Obama really attempting to fix the economy or push his socialist agenda? Is Boehner …