President Obama’s budget would pile up an additional $3.5 trillion in debt over the next 10 years and shows the government’s trust funds running out of money in 2020, Congress’s official non-partisan scorekeeper said Friday. In 2012 alone Mr. Obama’s budget would leave a $1.3 trillion deficit — $82 billion worse than if none of his policies were enacted. Over the next ten years the deficit would dip to less Read More ...
The United States Senate has done it again. A bill sponsored by Democratic Senator Comrade Kirsten Gillibrand intends to force states to enact new driving laws aimed at restricting the rights of both teens and the states themselves. Using tactics which would make the Mafia proud (reminiscent of the Black Hand), the Senate passed a new law which threatens to withhold Federal dollars by compelling states to pass new driving Read More ...
March 16 is the birthday of James Madison, known as the “Father of the Constitution.” Several years ago, the American Society of News Editors initiated a program calledSunshine Week, intended to coincide with the birthday of this illustrious Founding Father. The purpose of Sunshine Week was “to educate the public about the importance of open government and the dangers of excessive and unnecessary secrecy.” Despite the forecasted clear skies, there Read More ...
Former Florida Sen. Bob Graham, who co-chaired Congress’ Joint Inquiry into the 9/11 terrorist attacks, has seen two classified FBI documents that he says are at odds with the bureau’s public statements that there was no connection between the hijackers and Saudis then living in Sarasota, Fla. “There are significant inconsistencies between the public statements of the FBI in September and what I read in the classified documents,” Graham said. Read More ...
If Obama works with the United Nations and NATO against Syria and does not seek authorization from Congress for the use of the U.S. military, he may face impeachment, according to a resolution introduced by Republican Representative Walter B. Jones Jr. “Expressing the sense of congress that the use of offensive military force by a president without prior and clear authorization of an Act of Congress constitutes an impeachable high Read More ...
Congress has appropriated fifty million dollars to build a Bio Safety Level 3&4 facility in Manhattan, Kansas. According to the DHS website, the NBAF will be a state of the art laboratory with critical research adjacencies for DHS and USDA to carry out their unique and congruent missions. NBAF will contain 580,000 gross square feet of facility space which includes BSL-2, 3, and 4 shared research space for the development Read More ...
Rush Limbaugh has drawn the ire of celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred, who sent a letter to the Palm Beach County state attorney requesting an investigation into whether the popular radio host should be prosecuted for calling a law student a “slut” and “prostitute” last week. “Mr. Limbaugh targeted his attack on a young law student who was simply exercised her free speech and her right to testify before congress on Read More ...
Almost every week brings a new reason for the United States House of Representatives to bring impeachment charges against President Obama. The question of the day is not why he should be impeached but why it hasn’t already been done. This week it was Secretary of Defense Panetta’s declaration before the Senate Armed Services Committee that he and President Obama look not to the Congress for authorization to bomb Syria Read More ...
As I write this I am furious, furious at the audacity of Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. First the sickening statements the man made on 60 minutes in regards to assassinating US citizens and now the video that comes out with him before the Armed Services committee. Let me set it up. Rep. Jeff Sessions was questioning General Dempsey at first and asked him point blank about what law the military Read More ...
While the Fed has recently released an unprecedented amount of information on its activities, there is still much that remains unknown. Predictably, every push towards transparency has been fought tooth and nail. It took disclosure requirements enacted within the Dodd-Frank Act to get the Fed to provide data on its emergency lending facilities. It took lawsuits filed by Bloomberg and Fox News to provide data on discount window lending during Read More ...
