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Stimulus Tracking

Nearly five months after President Obama signed the $787 billion economic stimulus bill, which includes a promise to maintain “a user-friendly, public-facing website to foster greater accountability and transparency in the use of covered funds,” serious concerns continue to be raised about the ability of the government to accurately track where... [Read more of this review]

Land of the “Mostly” Free

The Heritage Foundation has released our 2010 Index of Economic Freedom, and the results are alarming if not terribly surprising: America is no longer ranked among the world’s free economies. Instead, for the first time, America ranks as only “mostly free” — behind countries like Canada, Ireland and Switzerland. The Index, published... [Read more of this review]

Amendment No. 47 To S424

As you probably know S424 passed in the Senate yesterday. However Brad Hutto, a known gun control supporter added an amendment 47 at the last minute which appears to be in support of the 2nd amendment. It immediately garnished support from many of the conservatives. Most of them went on as co-sponsors and it was added to S424 in its final state and... [Read more of this review]

The Punchline

Consider the following:  1.      There are 27 Republican Senators and 19 Democrat Senators.  Thus, Republicans have a 59% majority.  2.      25 Senators, a majority of the Senate, are sponsors of Amendment 11A (most of which I wrote) to Senate Bill 424, which reads in relevant part as follows:  “[I]it is the policy of the State of South... [Read more of this review]

Politically Correct

Political correctness is nothing new. It traces from 1917 Marxism in Russia to the Frankfurt School in the 1930’s to Columbia University in the 1940’s under the guiding hand of our old friend Herbert Marcuse and on into the poliotics of racial and gender victimhood and an effective way of silencing critics and opponents of leftist views. For... [Read more of this review]

Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

In a move expected but feared, self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be brought to trial in a civilian federal courthouse in New York, blocks from site of the devastating 2001 terror attacks. Opponents of the move are fearful of moving the trial from a Military Tribunal in Gitmo, to a... [Read more of this review]

Obama is MIA

On the twentieth anniversary of one of freedom’s monumental moments, one of America’s finest moments, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Obama is MIA. The mirror man who has never met a camera or teleprompter he didn’t fall head of heels in love with is NOT at the anniversary of the Fall of the Wall. He sent a video. I kid you not. He went... [Read more of this review]

Fort Hood massacre suspect Nidal Malik Hasan wired money to Pakistan

Authorities have been examining whether Fort Hood massacre suspect Nidal Malik Hasan wired money to Pakistan in recent months, an action that one senior lawmaker said would raise serious questions about Hasan’s possible connections to militant Islamic groups. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., said sources “outside of the “intelligence]... [Read more of this review]

4 Reasons to Keep on Keeping on

by Seeker John Hawkins of the National Review’s townhall.com has penned an excellent article (November 10, 2009). He titles his piece “4 Reasons the American Dream Will Be Over Unless We Act.” Some of his powerful reasoning follows. Takers v. producers. Around 25 years ago,16.5% of tax filers paid no income tax compared with today’s... [Read more of this review]

Our tax dollars at work

                                     House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, far right, speaks while colleagues play solitaire on their computers as the House convenes to vote on a new budget for the fiscal year in the Capitol on Monday [AP Photo/Jessica Hill] A photo of two Democratic legislators playing solitaire... [Read more of this review]

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