Depreciation is a way for businesses to reduce their tax burden by offsetting the loss in value of purchases for company use, such as trucks, equipment and even corporate jets, over time. Depreciation is not a subsidy. A subsidy is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for June, 2011
When Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli requested the Supreme Court expedite review of Virginia’s lawsuit against Obamacare, also known as the Affordable Health Care Act, it was intended to avoid states, not only Virginia, from spending huge sums of money […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s something very disturbing when the mayor of an American city objects to the Pledge of Allegiance, without the values of which their position would not be at the behest of the electorate, but rather an authority that could control […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Only one time in the history of our country has a member of the House of Representatives been elected President. In 1880, James Garfield went directly from the House of Representatives to the White House; though even in this instance […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Though civilians direct military operations, there can be no substitute for the knowledge of military leaders when undertaking armed operations. The President has access to the chiefs of staff of each branch of the military as well as the Chairman […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was revealed this past week that a minor flaw in the Obamacare program may grant as many as three million middle-class Americans access to free health care via Medicaid, a program designed to provide health care to those below […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you bought a fifth of Rum and found a picture on the bottle of a cirrhosis riddled liver, would it deter you from drinking? How about a picture of a blocked artery on the package of steak you buy […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) began a pilot program in Laredo, Texas in 2005 with the intention to interdict the flow of weapons from the Southwest border into Mexico. As an aside, since the majority of arms […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 recognized the rights of employees to be represented by unions in negotiations involving employee compensation and workplace conditions. The law also formed the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to adjudicate complaints as to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You cannot make up headlines like this; it’s simply not possible. This was, in fact, what the President of the United States said in an interview with NBC News. At a jobs council meeting this week the president jokingly indicated […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…