Hypocrisy abounds as Hollywood movie producers receive $1.5 billion in government handouts. This is the story you likely won’t hear at the Oscars later today. When (successful) Eva Longoria waxed eloquently at the Democratic National Convention last year about her lack of need of a tax break, she didn’t include the producers who get massive handouts.
A national uproar apparently caused the executive board of the Boy Scouts of America to postpone until May a vote on whether to allow homosexual Scouts and Scoutmasters among their ranks.
Alaska has more snow, more ice, more wind, taller mountains and lower tree lines than pretty much anywhere else. When it comes to extreme sports in the winter, Alaska is as extreme as it gets. And temperatures in Anchorage in March are a balmy 34 degrees.
Once upon a time, veterans were accorded respect and dignity by past White House administrations. Now Obama’s “War on Veterans” includes the Veteran’s Administration sending letters to some veterans indicating that their “competency to handle their own affairs” is under review, including their right to possess weapons. Could people of faith be next ?
Disciplinary files from the Bureau’s Office of Professional Responsibility record an extraordinary range of transgressions that reveal the chaotic personal lives of some of America’s top law enforcers. Lurid details are outlined in confidential internal disciplinary reports obtained by CNN that were issued to FBI employees as a way to deter misconduct.
Quietly, behind the scenes, the groundwork is being laid for federal government confiscation of tax-deferred retirement accounts such as IRAs. Slowly, the cat is being let out of the bag.
“Companies have a new solution to rising health-insurance costs: Break up their employees’ marriages,” says the Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch: denying spouse’s medical coverage. The current situation is forcing families to make some painful decisions. Does anyone remember that being part of the ObamaCare sales pitch in 2009?
New arms reductions could undermine U.S. security, former military and national security officials warn in letter.
A four-year FBI investigation into the transfer of classified weapons technology to China and other countries from NASA’s Ames Research Center is being stonewalled by government officials.
Undeniably, spending cuts by sequester slicer, chopping all equally, is mindless. And with the national security, it manifests a failure of both parties to come to terms with the world we are now in.