We often forget the origin and meaning of holidays in the U.S. because we’ve become accustomed to a more contemporary definition. When I was a child, Memorial day was the traditional beginning of summer, with barbeques, swimming pools opened and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
News hit the wires this week that Sarah Palin was about to hit the road again in a very campaign-ish bus tour starting this weekend at Rolling Thunder in the nation’s capital. That coupled with her pronouncement on Greta Van […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In 1960, the Kerr-Mills Act created the Medical Assistance for the Aged (MAA) program which gave states the power to decide which patients needed financial assistance. The federal government would provide matching funds to the states for the program. Some […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The next time you go to a movie, look around the auditorium and consider how many of those in the theater are paying anything in federal income taxes; I bet you’d be surprised. If there was one thing I thought […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
According to a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) thousands of companies, including more than 3,700 government contractors and nonprofit organizations, received more than $24 billion in stimulus money even though they owed more than $757 million in back […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s not wise to turn your back on a good friend, let alone to do so publically a day before the friend pays you a visit. Unfortunately that’s precisely what our President just did. Mr. Obama set himself up for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We’ve been treated to several weeks of oil company bashing by the Democrats for the tax breaks provided to encourage exploration. In another article I detailed how “big oil” makes less than most industries on a per-unit basis. What I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Remember when then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi was telling us they had to pass the health care law so we could know what’s in it? Later she said that as people got to know what was in the health care law they’d […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Only those closest to Donald Trump will ever know whether his dancing around the edges of running for President was anything more than a publicity stunt. He said some pretty far out things, but he also said a lot of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s been 71 days since President Obama declared that Muammar Gaddafi must leave Libya. It’s been 64 days since Obama proclaimed that Gaddafi’s days are numbered; 64 is in fact a number. 444 is also a number; it’s the number […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…