Abandoned on the Field as the ‘Nobles’ Surrender By Mark America: The talking points prevailing in the wake of the debt ceiling debacle would have you believe that this deal had been a compromise, and the best for which conservatives and Tea Party ought to have hoped possible. At the end of the debates lies […]
By Herb Titus & William Olson (American Thinker): In a Constitutional Republic of the sort that we thought we had, the process by which laws are made is at least as important as the laws that are enacted. Our Constitution prescribes that law-making process in some detail, but those who voted for the “Budget […]
By Steven Nelson (Daily Caller): Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s longtime fisheries adviser is heading to prison — for illegal fishing. Arne Fuglvog, who was employed as a legislative assistant to Murkowski beginning in 2006, signed a plea agreement on April 8 confessing to violations of the Lacey Act. The act governs the sale of […]
By AWR Hawkins (BigGovernment.com): No one in recent memory has faced the left’s vitriol like Sarah Palin (not even George W. Bush). The over-the-top, asinine attacks she’s received have been so ubiquitous they need not even be relisted here. Just suffice it to say there is a genuine hatred of Palin throughout the MSM, the […]
By JONATHAN ALLEN & JOHN BRESNAHAN (Politico): Vice President Joe Biden joined House Democrats in lashing tea party Republicans Monday, accusing them of having “acted like terrorists” in the fight over raising the nation’s debt limit. Biden was agreeing with a line of argument made by Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) at a two-hour, closed-door Democratic Caucus […]
by James Taylor (Forbes): NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth’s atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, reports a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing. The study indicates far less future global warming will occur than […]
This past June, Florida’s Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill into law requiring welfare recipients to be tested for illicit substances. This popular legislation weeds Florida druggies out from the public dole. Given the idiocy demonstrated by the Ruling Class over the past several weeks, I’ve been thinking that Gov. Scott’s novel legislation could find […]
The Hill (by Josiah Ryan): Forty-three GOP senators on Saturday signed a letter addressed to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) expressing opposition to his debt-ceiling legislation currently being considered in the upper chamber. Their unified opposition to the bill leaves Democrats at least three votes short of the 60 needed to a clear cloture […]
Bloomberg (by Wingfield & Klimasinska): “Absolutist” lawmakers aligned with the Tea Party have put the U.S. “on the brink,” Senator Lisa Murkowski said. House Speaker John Boehner is grappling with a “situation that is perhaps out of his control” as he struggles to persuade those members to compromise on raising the U.S. debt ceiling, Murkowski, an […]
The news is full of stories about where the United States is headed if we don’t do something quickly about the debt ceiling. Leaders of both political parties warn that a failure to raise the ceiling will result in market instability and perhaps even government default. Many tea partiers are more concerned that our extreme […]