Archive for March 2009
Totalitarianism? Update-Commentary
Newt Gingrich thinks it may be an over statement, but no question Geithner’s grab at Treasury to control financial institutions and Obama’s grab over at GM … translates into a power grab. Where will it stop? httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O99kWR4C3e8 Update 1: I never had the chance to comment on this. It is clear, after listening to Obama…
Read MoreNewt … Tea Party The Real Deal, Republicans will take back the House in 2010
From his lips to God’s ears. Well only if they aren’t weak kneed, pork laden, spend thrift Republicans. The tipping point for most Americans, he says, is not just the massive budget, but the massive control the White House is contemplating over the free market system. As in banks, insurance companies, finance companies … and…
Read MoreThe Flat Tax Answer
Taxation is back on the table. Like President Bush, President Obama is putting together a tax commission to study an overhaul of the tax system, something that really has not been done since Ronald Reagan’s tax simplification in the 80’s when the progressive system was reduced to 3 brackets. President Obama says he wants to…
Read MoreWhich terrorists may be released in the USA?
Several of the detainees the Obama administration is considering releasing into the United States are Chinese Muslims that were trained by al-Qaida in Tora Bora, Afghanistan. This is an update to last weeks post, Guantanamo detainees in the US and enhanced interrogation techniques. Gateway Pundit brings us the video, and more, from Fox News anchor…
Read MoreThe Republican budget alternative that wasn’t
On Thursday, Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) unveiled the Republican budget alternative to President Obama’s massive spending plan released days earlier. The press conference – seemingly in response to President Obama mentioning there was no Republican alternative on the table – was pretty much a joke. The video released on Boehner’s Republican leader blog (video…
Read MoreBwahahaha! Al Gore Leaves His Lights On! Update: Manbearpig Video
Al Gore caught in yet another “Do as I say, not as I do.” moment. Oh brother, have you guys been conned. Crack me up.
Read MoreThe Tea Party Continues – Stamford Success/Florida Cancelled -City Fears Crowd – Update: Florida On
Update 2: The Florida Rally in Cape Coral City is back on. Pam Fowler, Connecticut’s Tea party Point person writes to tell me this: Despite the efforts of the local government in Cape Coral, FL, to prevent people from showing up, the tea party is on! FreedomWorks activist Mary Rakovich is taking over the planning of the April 1st Tea Party…
Read MoreThe “de ja vu” Health Care Plan
Any debate about universal health care invariably turns to a discussion of medical care in Great Britain or Canada – overburdening taxes, long waits for testing, and even longer waits for treatment. In an attempt to contain costs, health care is essentially rationed. Think that can’t happen here? Well, think again. It’s already happening.
Read More“Big Brother” is watching…
What is the difference between a citizen and a subject? Personally, my reflexive answer is freedom of one sort or another — the right to bear arms, the right to free speech and freedom of association, etc. The things that a citizen has and takes for granted. Sometimes, however, it is what the subject has…
Read MorePoliticians STILL taking money from TARP recipients.
Politicians still taking TARP money. Where is the outrage?
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