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April 19, 2010

• U.S. Post Office In Big Trouble

  From the San Francisco Chronicle: Postmaster General John Potter warned Congress last week that the Postal Service may run out of cash just in time for the November elections and Christmas shopping season. Even if anyone knew how to fix the Postal Service – an independent agency written into the Constitution – Congress, regulators and [...]

April 16, 2010

• Poll: 52% Say Obama Moving U.S. Towards Socialism

  From CNS News:  A New York Times/CBS News poll found that a majority of Americans, 52 percent, think the policies of President Barack Obama are moving the United States toward socialism   Published April 14, the poll surveyed the political, racial, and social opinions of both the general pubic and self-described members of the tea [...]

April 14, 2010

• Will Los Angeles Go Bankrupt?

  The LA Times reports: Former mayor Richard Riordan has been roiling the civic waters by arguing that the surest — and perhaps the only — way out of Los Angeles’ fiscal crisis is a declaration of municipal bankruptcy, which he believes ought to come sooner rather than later. In a conversation with The Times over [...]

April 12, 2010

• More Taxes or More Jobs— You Can’t Have Both

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• The Onerous Compliance Cost of the IRS Code

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• Oregon School District Considers Cutting The School Week To Four Days To Save Money

  WHAT ABOUT THE KIDS?  – Klamath County School officials are considering cutting the school week to four days to save the district $6.3 million annually. The Herald and News reported that the shortened week is one of many money-saving measures school officials are considering. District Superintendent Greg Thede says that a $5.8 million cut to [...]

April 6, 2010

• Obama Limits US Ability To Use Nuclear Arms

  The Obama administration is locking up the country’s nuclear weapons for all but the most “extreme circumstances,” pledging in a new policy not to develop new nuclear weapons and to limit the use of the ones in storage — even for self defense. But the president said in an interview that he was carving out [...]

February 15, 2010

• Don't These Kind Of Things Only Happen In Third World Countries?

  MORE GANGSTER GOVERNMENT – Crony capitalism is now the order of the day in the United States. The government and the United Auto Workers own General Motors and Chrysler, which aren’t likely to pay back their billions in TARP money any time soon, if ever. Meanwhile the government tells Americans to stop driving Toyotas.  The [...]

• Public Employee Unions – An Anchor As We Sink

  NO WONDER WE’RE IN TROUBLE – While the rest of the economy is reeling, government just keeps expanding. Why? A major factor is the power of public-sector unions. New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that, for the first time in history, a majority of American union members — 52 percent — now work [...]

• The Democrats Are Running Scared

  MORE GOOD NEWS – How the mighty have fallen! Only seven or eight months ago, President Obama and congressional Democrats were on their way to remaking America along liberal lines and positioning themselves for decades of political dominance. Their lopsided majorities in the House and Senate, plus the White House, gave them unassailable command of [...]

• ACORN Ban Just For Show

  THEY ALWAYS PROTECT THEIR OWN – Didn’t Acorn, the corrupt community organizer, get its federal funding yanked after its last scandal? Actually, no. Through municipal middlemen, it’s poised to rake in another $4 billion. Where is the outrage? You’d think a group implicated in dozens of electoral fraud cases, theft of funds and, most recently, [...]

February 12, 2010

• Obama PR Helps Terrorists

  AMATEUR HOUR – When President Obama’s leading counter-terrorism staff member, John Brennan, says that “politically motivated criticism and unfounded fear-mongering only serve the goals of al-Qaeda,” he has it exactly backwards. It is the president’s efforts to crow about how effective he is in fighting terrorism that are helping al-Qaeda. What kind of policy is [...]

February 11, 2010

• I Guess He Only Wants To Be President For One Term

  Read my lips, no new taxes… It seems he wants to repeat George H.W. Bush’s experience!

• Now Robert Gibbs Is Telling The White House Press Corps That Obama Saved Iraq

  THEY HAVE NO SHAME WHATSOEVER – Robert Gibbs today tried to take credit for the success in Iraq even though both Biden and Obama voted against the successful surge that stabilized the country. Biden caused rioting and protests when he pushed legislation to divide Iraq into three countries. ” Yesterday Joe Biden took credit for [...]

• Dems Are Going To Try And Ram Healthcare Through

  Roll Call reports:   House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is pinning the blame on Republicans for a lack of bipartisanship in Congress and plans to bypass them if they continue to oppose efforts to enact near-universal health care. This is the clearest indication yet that Democrats are gearing up to jam the Senate version of [...]

• When Will Obama Get Serious About Iran?

  HOW MUCH LONGER WILL ISRAEL WAIT UNTIL THEY’RE FORCED TO ACT? – Buried most of the way through this New York Times report is a disturbing reminder of how unserious Obama is about imposing sanctions on Iran that might impact the mullahs’ decision to proceed with their nuclear-arms program: During the campaign he raised the [...]

• Jobs Bill Won't Actually Create Many Jobs!

  THIS DOES NOT SEEM UNUSUAL COMING FROM THIS CONGRESS – It’s a bipartisan jobs bill that would hand President Barack Obama a badly needed political victory and placate Republicans with tax cuts at the same time. But it has a problem: It won’t create many jobs. Even the Obama administration acknowledges the legislation’s centerpiece — [...]

February 10, 2010

• Nelson Defects From Dems Over Terror Trials

  THERE MUST BE AN ELECTION APPROACHING – Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson joined a bipartisan effort on Wednesday to block the administration from trying the Sept. 11th suspects in civilian courts.   Nelson (Neb.) signed onto legislation offered by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Jim Webb (D-Va.) to require military commission trials for [...]

• Increasing Government Power Threatens Freedom

  NOVEMBER CAN’T COME SOON ENOUGH – Government is taking us a long way down the Road to Serfdom. That doesn’t just mean that more of us must work for the government. It means that we are changing from independent, self-responsible people into a submissive flock. The welfare state kills the creative spirit. F.A. Hayek, an [...]

• Americans Reject “Not Bush” Approach to Fighting Terrorism

  BUT WILL THEY LISTEN – American voters say 59 – 35 percent that 9/11 terrorism suspects should be tried in military courts rather than in civilian courts, as currently planned. Voters say 68 – 25 percent that terrorism suspects should not receive all of the constitutional protections afforded by a civilian trial. Democrats prefer civilian [...]