The GOP was in an uproar when four State Department officials “took one for the team” by resigning in the wake of a report about the department’s failures in the September 11 terrorist attack in Benghazi; but fear not because […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
California is an interesting place. The state’s government puts in place outrageous public union pensions that it cannot possibly fund. The state raises property taxes to fund its runaway spending only to have to roll back the taxes sinking deeper […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Once again the mainstream media is doing its thing to promote their favored politician Barack Obama. Sure Mitt Romney’s choice of words in a June fundraiser may have been rather indelicate, but was it worthy of a week of non-stop coverage? […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Obamacare: More Tax…Less Filling When the Democrats enacted Obamacare they did so with the assumption that everyone would peacefully come in line and purchase health insurance. Wednesday congressional budget analysts predicted that nearly 12 million Americans, a majority of them […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Gas Prices Don’t Aid Alternative-Fuel Vehicle Sales Electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles have not done well in the marketplace even with gasoline spiking over the $5 mark in some areas of the country this past year. Both the Nissan Leaf, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
What was President Obama thinking when he uttered the words that will likely to dog him for the rest of the campaign, “You didn’t build that?” It’s one of those astonishing gaffs that politicians pray their opposition makes. While trying […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Before anyone had heard of a subprime mortgage crisis, one of the nation’s largest mortgage companies, Countrywide Financial Corp., was using discount loans to members of Congress and congressional staff to buy influence in what may turn out to be […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you’re over the age of 40 you probably remember the infamous $600 toilet seats and $400 hammers from the golden age of government waste, fraud and abuse. Should you believe those days are behind us, you’ve got another thing […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Holder First Sitting Cabinet Member Found in Contempt of Congress Though bi-partisanship in Congress is rarer than the Dodo, today 17 Democratic members of the House of Representatives joined 238 Republicans to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in criminal contempt […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you saw the movie Avatar, you’re familiar with the mythical energy source “unobtainium.” Evil corporations of Earth dispatched the military to the peaceful moon Pandora with the mission to acquire unobtainium at any cost, even if that price was the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…