Politics
-
Online gov’t program for ferreting out illegal aliens applying for jobs ‘down’ during shutdown
Jobs pushing elevator buttons for members of Congress are not the only casualties of the partial government shutdown, now in…
Read More » -
Vets return BarryCades to Spite House…feels right
Has America ever had a smaller Chief Executive? Yes, I know that James Madison stood only 5 feet, 4 inches…
Read More » -
Disaffected veterans dump barricades at White House
“Our awesome vets have taken back our monuments in Washington for the American people!” Veterans and their family members have…
Read More » -
Sticker shock from Obamacare rates as big a snafu as sign-up glitches
“Will the Floridians who have enrolled for Obamacare please stand up?” rhetorically and glibly asks an article in the Miami Herald.…
Read More » -
Patriotic Americans fed up with Obama antics storm Lincoln Memorial
Last Thursday, Barack Obama announced that his administration would allow some national parks to reopen … so long as they paid their…
Read More » -
Federal judge orders National Park Service to reopen Va. park used for youth soccer
The news is not likely to be well received by Barack Obama, whose fussing and fuming over the 2012 Supreme Court ruling…
Read More » -
Obamacare forces small-town folk to choose between ‘new health plan and feeding their kids’
“If you like your doctor, you like your plan — you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan.…
Read More » -
Post Office to destroy ‘unsafe’ stamps
To honor Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” physical activity/exercise initiative and simultaneously celebrate the youth of America in healthy motion, the…
Read More » -
A pictorial guide to where the U.S. stands economically
A picture, it is said, is worth a thousand words. Following that wisdom, here are 2,000 words, neatly packaged in…
Read More » -
Myths about government shutdowns
Young people often don’t realize that government shutdowns used to be common, until the middle of the Clinton administration. The…
Read More » -
New low: National Park rangers remove handles from drinking fountains
You really have to hand it to Barack Obama. Who but this nasty, petty tyrant could turn as benign an…
Read More » -
Why Wall Street should be concerned even after debt limit is raised
The only “faction” that controls whether to default, remains president of the United States. Conservatives should be happy that Speaker…
Read More » -
Bill Press: Death benefits to military families should not be paid during shutdown
A blog entry at Huffington Post in 2010 asked whether conservatives were heartless villains or just naïve idealists. It reminded me of…
Read More » -
A ‘clean’ debt ceiling increase? There’s nothing clean about it
An article at the website of ABC News this morning carries the headline “Senate to Move Ahead on ‘Clean’ Debt-Limit Increase.” The…
Read More » -
What DOJ, WH and DOD lawyers were involved in denying death benefits to fallen soldiers’ families?
By now, the story of fallen soldiers’ families being denied death benefits, ostensibly because of the government shutdown, is all…
Read More » -
Forget the debate over raising the $16.9 trillion debt ceiling: U.S. debt is 7 times that amount
President Obama and the Treasury Department are demanding that Congress raise the $16.9 trillion (and counting) debt ceiling so that the government…
Read More » -
Whoops! Despite earlier reports House gym would be closed during shutdown, facility is open
Remember the reports about the grievous hardships members of Congress would be forced endure because of the partial government shutdown? If…
Read More » -
Obama’s nonsensical answer to why he won’t accept GOP’s piecemeal funding fixes during shutdown
A Kinsley gaffe is a truthful statement told accidentally, usually by a politician. Members of the Obama White House have…
Read More » -
The Mt. Rushmore presidents’ message to Obama
One of the many national treasures that the Spite House has made inaccessible to the American public is the famous…
Read More » -
Obama’s criticism of new senators reveals his hypocrisy
On October 4, President Obama gave a widely reported interview with Julie Pace of the Associated Press that read more like a piece from The…
Read More » -
Magazine calls for Obama’s mother-in-law to be evicted from the White House
“Maybe it would be asking too much…” In what may be a prime example of turnabout being fair play, one…
Read More » -
Amber Alert website back up as Spite House reacts to public outrage
Playing politics? Toying with people’s lives? What a ghastly thing to accuse the president of the United States of doing.…
Read More »
