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Expansion of federal government – mission creep

By Steve McGough / December 22, 2009 /

Familiar with the term mission creep? In business, a project starts with specified business requirements and after the project gets rolling, new requirements – or change orders – are added after the fact increasing costs and sometimes destroying the project. Nick Gillespie over at Reason TV talks mission creep in government projects.

Symptom of the Disease: Google, the White House and a $1.8 million fundraiser

By Steve McGough / October 28, 2010 /

Do you have an issue with Google driving around the world capturing personal information? While many countries are holding Google to a high standard and taking them to court, claiming private information was stolen, Google management raised $1.8 million for Democrats at one dinner … and four days later…

Compassionate conservatism equaled big government

By Steve McGough / November 7, 2008 /

We all knew it. Bush 43 tried to define his presidency by bringing new tone to Washington D.C., and called his politics compassionate conservatism. By reaching across the aisle and letting Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) write the No Child Left Behind in 2001, propping up the U.S. steel industry with tariffs in 2002, and dishing out…

College kids to Chris Matthews: Hey, how about the government helping pay my college loans? UPDATE

By Jim Vicevich / October 23, 2010 /

Want to know what will get the kids out to the polls? Promise them the government will pay off their college loans. Free, free money. The Nanny State continued.

An appeal to Obama supporters

By Bruce / October 22, 2008 /

Now that we are at the eve of the presidential election, the magnitude of this moment looms large over us all. As a conservative I have watched in awe and horror at the scope of the liberal propaganda machine in this country. Obama’s $618 million fund raising, shadowy support from wealthy liberal donors, true-believers in…

Obama administration – ACORN violated federal rules concerning housing grants

By Steve McGough / September 24, 2010 /

ACORN still exists, they were never put out of business. They simply changed the name of the organization, continuing their abuse of the system. Another symptom of the disease since any sort of federal funding of programs like this is completely unconstitutional.

McCain finally slams Obama on Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae

By Steve McGough / October 6, 2008 /

When you see this post, immediately send it to everyone in your e-mail list. I’m not a big McCain fan, but certainly you’re going to find me voting for the most conservative of the bunch – who is able to win – in four weeks. Today in New Mexico, McCain brought up the fact that…

Toast? Dodd trails by 11

By Jim Vicevich / November 12, 2009 /

It’s just one poll, it’s still a year away, but the time is running shorter and the poll is running in the wrong direction for the senior Senator from Connecticut. Former Connecticut Congressman Rob Simmons has an early lead in the Republican primary race for the 2010 U.S. Senate contest and runs better than any…

Fact Checking Thee But Not Me

By Jim Vicevich / September 21, 2008 /

How long before the Washington Post and The New York Times jump on this whopper of an ad by Obama, the Patron Saint of clean and honest campaigns. I would advise you not hold your breath. (via: instapundit) In Daytona Beach, Obama said that “if my opponent had his way, the millions of Floridians who…

Texas Rep. Johnson must resign immediately

By Steve McGough / September 8, 2010 /

Sure, she’s got an election coming up where she hopefully will get tossed out of office, but the revelations today in the Dallas Morning News is incredible. She requested scholarship checks be re-written and made out specifically to family members.