My friend Gary Spina – who writes for the Independent Sentinel at times – sent the following message to me and I want to know what you think about his comments. Is he right? Are we done? I have personally been disillusioned listening to Republican commercials about the Senate immigration bill. Their claims don’t match…
Photo of Hassan Rohawani, a not-so-moderate president Iran’s newly elected president, Hassan Rowhani, pledged on Monday to follow a “path of moderation” and promised greater openness over the country’s nuclear program. Then he said he agrees with Mahmoud’s hard-line on uranium enrichment. Yahoo and many media outlets think that this is proof they are open…
President Obama is the food stamp president. In fact, he is the welfare state president. It is what he believes in. He wants a welfare entitlement state and he is getting it. The USDA numbers released for March 2013 revealed that 23,116,441 households enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps, each…
Photo of the gang of eight, make them sponsors There’s a terrific way to solve the developing kerfuffle over a new Immigration Reform Bill. Allow all those in favor of “bringing illegal immigrants out of the shadows” before the border has been certified as secure, to sponsor some of those folks. Pass a law granting…
cartoon via CosnervativeDailyNews.com I am not a member of the Tea Party but I must support them and the rally they have planned for this Wednesday, June 19th at the Capitol. It was originally supposed to be only an Audit the IRS rally. It is so much more than that now. We must now stand…
There is a provision in the healthcare law which requires Congressional aides, and possibly lawmakers, to pay the same premiums we all are going to pay. The provision was put in the bill in the first place on the theory that if Congress was going to make the country live under the provisions of Obamacare, the…
Photo of the abortion pill even a 10-year old could purchase The government has given up the fight to limit the age at which little girls can buy a morning after pill in their local drugstore without parental permission or a prescription. They can make the purchase at any age. The US Justice Department, under…
Not withstanding shocking updates and new names (Edward Snowden), if we’re going to be OK with stunning revelations regarding our federal intelligence gathering apparatus, we’ll have to accept some starry-eyed suppositions, especially as they relate to powerful people in D.C. Here are several such suppositions, followed by a reality check: Starry-eyed supposition-Our Attorney General, Eric…
Photo of Edward Snowden Edward Snowden, the former CIA contractor who leaked the information about PRISM, is now the topic of conversation. Is he a patriot standing up for America or a traitor who put our country in danger? The government claims their snooping helps keep us safe and has averted several terror attacks. Candidate…
Photo of President Obama flying around on his broom There has been a lot of discussion about the “sweeps” being conducted by the government’s PRISM program, but “sweeping” government surveillance is an abstract for most people. To give you an idea of what a “sweep” can do in one isolated case, consider one young man…
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