Fed Up with Our Government. But What to Do About It?

Considering the events of the past week, there don’t seem to be many reasons to be positive right now… A majority of our representatives in federal government just spent the last several weeks engaging in a three-ring circus of what turned out to be nothing but a diversion. Ultimately, they produced historically bad results. Considering [...]

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Note to anyone who ever went to a “Tea Party” rally – the Downgrade is all YOUR fault

No less a prestigious Democrat than Sen. (and former Democrat Presidential pick) John Kerry says so, so for millions of Americans, sadly, it must be true; “I believe this is without question the Tea Party downgrade,” Kerry said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” in a Sunday interview. “This is the Tea Party downgrade because a [...]

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Sometimes, all words fail except: The Only Easy Day was Yesterday

Yesterday… Yesterday, thirty plus United States military personnel were still alive. Today they are not; Coalition forces suffered the largest loss of life in a single incident since US forces invaded Afghanistan in 2001 when a transport helicopter crashed during a raid in eastern Afghanistan, killing 31 US and seven Afghan special operations forces. The [...]

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Obama: Sees US credit downgraded, goes to dinner…

Tomorrow, golfs. They always call Obama a historic President, today he breaks ground again; Standard & Poor’s announced Friday night that it has downgraded the United States credit rating for the first time, dealing a huge symbolic blow to the world’s economic superpower in what was a sharply worded critique of the American political system. [...]

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Rick Santelli schools Ezra Klein about money not moving “Fairly”

Ezra Klein is one who’ll never understand the world beyond what some college professor told him once or twice. “The system, young Ezra, is inherently unfair. It’s up to you to see to it that money is forcibly taken from the evilll rich and the wealth is spread around equitably. Read Alinsky. Robin Hood. Misdirect. [...]

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Increasing Executive Power: Progressively Making Congress Irrelevant

  Author’s Note: This article was originally drafted in mid-June, before the debt ceiling debacle even began to unfold.  I have revised parts of the article to reflect events which have occurred in the interim, but I want to point out that the deal Congress just passed with respect to the debt ceiling is yet [...]

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