November 11, 2011
… In America, November 11th officially became known as Armistice Day through an act of Congress in 1926. However it wasn’t until some 12 years later, through a similar act of Congress that Armistice Day actually became a national holiday. In 1947 Congressman Edward H. Rees of Kansas introduced legislation to change the name of Armistice Day to Veterans Day in order to honor all veterans who have served the United States in all wars. In 1954,…
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December 5, 2011
…h as $6,250 for a prime seat or, if you are poor and don’t mind being put on a long waiting list, you can pay a measly $200 for a second balcony seat. How are these performing artists selected? There is a Kennedy Center national artists committee that meets each year and presents, with past honorees, their recommendations to the Honorees to the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The Board of Trustees s…
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February 13, 2012
…ions speak louder than words, and Santorum’s actions show fiscal insanity that only a Democrat would love. ANTI-TEA PARTY While the Tea Party endorses reduced government spending, opposition to higher taxes, reduction of the national debt and deficits, and a limited government, Rick Santorum has advocated for quite the opposite. As mentioned above, Santorum has increased government spending and irrefutably added to the national debt and deficits…
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December 18, 2011
Current GOP Front Runner and Target of the Mainstream Party – Newt Gingrich I’ve been doing a lot of wondering lately about how Newt Gingrich has become the anti-GOP establishment candidate. As you all know, back in the 1990′s, Mr. Gingrich was the ultimate Washington insider. He engineered the first Republican takeover of Congress in decades, was single handedly responsible for the “Contract with America” and was one o…
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May 17, 2010
…ican citizens with those “Illegal Immigrants” that take the fast and dangerous track into this country. So why has illegal immigration suddenly rocketed to the forefront of today’s news headlines? Economics. According to the National Research Council illegal immigrants cost taxpayers 346 billion dollars annually. California’s cost according to F.A.I.R. is $10.1 billion. As our cities here in America scramble to balance failing budgets and cut co…
Tags: Arizona, Immigration
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June 10, 2009
…d have approximately 32% of the US Population controlled by Republican governors in just four states. To me that doesn’t sound like a dead party! Rather, it sounds like one that has the potential for a strong majority. On the national front, Nancy Pelosi’s current popularity is at the lowest it’s ever been. According to a Gallup poll released on Friday, Pelosi’s ratings are currently at 34%. If I’m not mistaken, these are lower than President Bus…
Tags: Stimulus
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February 5, 2012
Mike McCarthy of the Green Bay Packers holds up the Vince Lombardi Trophy after winning Super Bowl XLV Many years ago, I remember reading an essay by David Mamet in which the playwright asserted that the only two true national holidays were The Super Bowl and The Oscars. While most holidays dispersed Americans to pursue their individual activities or chores, these two events brought the majority of Americans together, mostly around their televis…
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January 18, 2012
…t he isn’t bothered by the book.” It was 9/11 that framed the Patriot Act, the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” and kept America safe as of January 2012. In the book one finds whatever one wants to find. Some feel national security embraces a justified form of “torture.” And there are also forms of “torture” that have no social save pernicious significance. Gary Gensler unwittingly rolled this truism into economics, but it is generi…
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November 14, 2008
…Clinton era balanced budgets that were orchestrated while the Republican Congress was in control of the country. It should be done without tax increases by limiting the amount of federal spending. All programs not relating to national security, technology, education and healthcare should be slashed across the board. Further, any surpluses created during the balanced budget era should not be used for new spending of any kind. They should immediate…
Tags: Conservative, Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, Obama, Republican
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November 3, 2011
…A. Hayek. Conservatism proper is a legitimate, probably necessary, and certainly a widespread attitude of opposition to drastic change. But did Hayek truly understand Conservatism? In 1955 William F. Buckley Jr. shared in The national review On Line “Our Mission Statement”…. “Let’s face it: Unlike Vienna, it seems altogether possible that did “National Review” not exist, no one would have invented it. [….] It is not that, of course; if “National …
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