Amerika! The land where you can have only a dollar in your pocket and then work hard and succeed! The land of opportunity. The land flowing with milk and honey! Amerika!
That’s what our immigrant grandparents said as they came into Ellis Island eons ago.
Our ancestors came from all parts of the world: England, Russia, Poland, [...]
There’s this game show called “The Price is Right!” where contestants have to choose among three doors; DOOR NUMBER ONE, DOOR NUMBER TWO, and DOOR NUMBER THREE.
Unbeknownst to the voters in 2008 we chose DOOR NUMBER ONE. With the promises of “change we can believe in,” we half way expected no more than the status quo. The economy was beginning to [...]
During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama, not once, but eight times said that the legislation process would be transparent and on C-Span so the public could be made aware of the process and what was in the bill.
To achieve health care reform, “I’m going to have all the negotiations around a big table. We’ll have [...]
Now that passage of the Healthcare bill seems iminent, many in Congress are now looking at their political futures which will be decided come this November. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is already looking at his political death while the Senator from Arkansas, Blanche Lincoln is also seeing the handwriting on the wall.
Senator Dodd of [...]
Ordinarily this would be a good thing for Conservatives. Senator Dodd was knee deep in the scandals concerning Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as well as being involved in a sweetheart loan with Country Wide. His approval ratings were in the tank. The Republicans in Connecticut saw a clear win for any one of the [...]
Once the Senate passed the legislation for healthcare reform with a 60-39 vote, it was thought that the next steps would consist of the House revising their bill and the Senate, theirs. But it seems now that Congress has decided to fast track the process by skipping the formal conference committee and decided to just [...]
Now that Obama has the liberals and the Unions supporting him in the passage of the healthcare bill, is he actually willing to lose them in the home stretch by considering taxing the Cadillac Health Plans? That’s essentially what he’s risking by putting the idea on the table. In fact, he’s finding that if he [...]
With all the hoopla about Gitmo detainees and the Yemen connection to the “underwear bomber”, Obama came out to assure people that he still had every intention of closing Gitmo. But what he said raises eyebrows.
Transcript:
Finally some have suggested that the events on Christmas Day should cause us to revisit the decision to close the [...]
Back in 2007 Fox did a story on Islamberg,a mysterious 70 acrre compound with more than 100 Muslims living there.
There were rumors of a radical cleric with terrorist ties. Shots could be heard from the compound. And any approach by outsiders were met with a barrel of a rifle in the face of the intruder. [...]
Who else would recognize the rise of socialism but one who has lived through it himself? Lt. General Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking Soviet and Eastern Bloc Intelligence Official ever to defect to America (in 1978) stated recently:
“Alas, now the virus of Marxism with its fatal governmental takeovers has started infecting our shores. If the Democratic [...]