As state and federal budgets bleed out, governments and agencies are taking an aggressive look at ways to increase their revenue stream. This will mean much more “proactive” (I really, really hate that word) enforcement of laws and regulations. That will mean we’ll be paying dearly for the irresponsible way local, state, and federal governments have pissed away their treasuries. This is a co...
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*(when not bastardized) Surprise, surprise…We are slowly coming to face the fact that many trendy “green” things actually harm the environment instead of helping it. Unfortunately, some of us are not learning this lesson, and new “green” activities are being pushed that are lacking in forethought, not to mention just as harmful to the planet than the thing replaced. One perfect exam...
“He’s been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day-care facilities, building health-care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful. He’s made their lives better.” Yes he has, that cuddly old teddy bear. The Democratic senator from Washington who said that about Osama Bin Laden way too soon after the September 11 at...
The following is a letter that has been forwarded to me as it is being sent to President Obama from inside the Iranian democracy movement. As to whether the president will see it, and more importantly, whether he will give a damn if he does, we can only make our own individual judgments. The words evince a respectful and temperate tone, even as those involved are being arrested, imprisoned, raped,...
The examples are legion: Senator Dick Durbin compares our soldiers to the most infamous mass murderers of the 20th century; Congressman Jack Murtha calls American battle heroes murderers; Democratic congressional caucuses pay homage to Fidel Castro; liberal politicians insist that a mosque at Ground Zero is a wonderful thing and you’re a racist; and on and on and on—including the actions and w...
What do you know? Less than 12 hours after Reid narrowly won reelection in a tough race against Sharon Angle, and he was declaring his openness to compromise on changes to ObamaCare. Looks like the whole “pass the bill to find out what’s in it” deal extended even to those who voted for the bill. I remember once when I was a kid and my mom went on a big health-food kick, and she made ...
I’m writing this on November 1st, 2010 – the eve before the 2010 mid-term elections. We’ve seen one of the most contentious and outrageous “election seasons” possibly ever in the history of our country. Have you ever stopped to wonder “why” these elections get so dirty? Have you ever wondered why a person would spend millions of dollars (in many cases, much of that is their own mon...
As I watched the live coverage of the Chilean mine rescue, like nearly everyone else who was paying attention, I was enthralled. Thirty-three men had survived for sixty-nine days in a sauna-like tomb 2,070 feet below the surface of the earth; and now, owing to the miracles of modern science and the inextinguishable flame of human determination, they would all emerge to see their families again. Co...
At a time when the White House is projecting the largest deficit in the nation’s history, Uncle Sam is trying to recover billions of dollars in unpaid taxes - from its own employees. Federal workers owe more than $3 billion in income taxes they failed to pay in 2008. According to Internal Revenue Service documents over a quarter-million federal employees and retirees – 276,300 to be e...
Apparently the rights of our troops only matter when it comes to the “right” to be openly gay—and not to silly things like the Constitutionally protected right to vote. The MOVE act, which requires absentee ballots be mailed to military stationed or deployed overseas 45 days before the election, doesn’t seem to apply anymore. Seven states missed their deadline, and although New York was ...
