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| Is The American Era On The Wane? |
Posted By: 
Letters
on 7/2/2009 1:32:09 PM in
Road To Rome |
| Road To Rome |
| Consider this Obama pick for “Regulatory Czar”:Regulatory Czar. Obama wants to fill this post with Cass Sunstein, the Harvard law professor who has suggested "that animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, ... |
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| Franken "Stein" Heads To Washington |
| Posted By:
Letters
on 7/2/2009 12:23:33 PM in
Road To Rome |
| Road To Rome |
 Which Al Franken will show up in Washington?"(AP) - Now that Al Franken is headed for the Senate, which Franken will show up in Washington?Will it be the passionate, sometimes angry liberal who hurled playground insults at Rush Limbaugh as an author ... |
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| Elitist Politicians Are Out Of Touch |
| Posted By:
WAG
on 7/2/2009 10:53:15 AM in
The Waste Wing |
| The Waste Wing |
| Congress's Travel Tab Swells Spending on Taxpayer-Funded Trips Rises Tenfold; From Italy to the Galápagos"Spending by lawmakers on taxpayer-financed trips abroad has risen sharply in recent years, a Wall Street Journal analysis of travel records show ... |
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| News Agencies Gagging 'Gay' Factor In Boy Rape |
| Posted By:
Heidi
on 7/1/2009 6:11:25 PM in
MEDIA |
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| Expert says Obama to blame for horrific case of 5-year-oldEditor's note: The content of this story is graphic in nature and may be objectionable to some readers."News coverage of a Duke University official accused of raping his adopted 5-year-old son ... |
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| New Evidence The Earth Is Cooling |
| Posted By:
FlyBoy
on 7/1/2009 11:56:16 AM in
GLOBAL COOLING |
| GLOBAL COOLING |
 Shhhhhhhhh, some one may be listening"It was hailed as a breathtaking scientific discovery: two ancient skulls of an apparently primitive hominid, an ancestor of man. Dubbed "Piltdown man," (Eoanthropus dawsoni) it was unearthed in Britain in 1912 by ... |
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| Government Acts: Comedy Or Tragedy? |
| Posted By:
Caxy
on 7/1/2009 1:42:35 PM in
Road To Rome |
| Road To Rome |
| "To delay action is the same as death." Vladimir Lenin Perhaps President Obama should review the thoughts of some of our Founding Fathers in this regard. "Delay is preferable to error." Thomas Jefferson "When in doubt – don't." Benjamin Franklin Let' ... |
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| Illegal Immigration: Simple Math |
| Posted By:
Letters
on 7/1/2009 5:58:15 PM in
IMMIGRATION |
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| Here is an example of why hiring illegal aliens is not economically productive for the United States.You have 2 families, "Joe Legal" and "Jose Illegal".Both families have 2 parents, 2 children and live in anytown USA."Joe Legal" works in constructio ... |
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| Media’s Jackson Coverage Diverts Attention From Iran |
| Posted By:
FlyBoy
on 7/1/2009 11:45:55 AM in
MEDIA |
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| "Deepak Chopra, the Indian master of the mind-body connection, was convincing in his grief at the loss of his good friend Michael Jackson. He told CNN, among many other praiseworthy things about the life of the pop idol, that when Jackson learned tha ... |
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| Treasury Ready To Throw Away Billions |
| Posted By:
FlyBoy
on 7/1/2009 11:34:09 AM in
The Waste Wing |
| The Waste Wing |
| "The U.S. Treasury has apparently found another way to lose more taxpayer money. Perhaps $9 billion down the drain, unless changes are made soon. Last year, when the Treasury doled out some $200 billion from the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Pro ... |
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| The Coup That Wasn't |
| Posted By:
Letters
on 7/1/2009 9:18:37 AM in
Revisionists' Row |
| Revisionists' Row |
| Obama, Chavez, and Castro...all vocal on this legal ouster...Lawyer Jared Silverman summarizes...Imagine that a president of the US was impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate. Under the US Constitution, the vice president would take ... |
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| Stimulating America's Decline |
| Posted By:
DOC
on 6/30/2009 9:41:48 AM in
BAILOUT BLUES |
| BAILOUT BLUES |
| "Barack Obama signed the Stimulus bill on Feb. 18, 2009 amid much fanfare. Proponents of the bill stated that it would save or create 3.5 million jobs. Now, four months have passed since the passage of the stimulus package, its time to take a first l ... |
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| When Did The Lowbrows Take Over The Culture? |
| Posted By:
DOC
on 6/30/2009 9:18:05 AM in
Road To Rome |
| Road To Rome |
| "I've been trying to grasp for a truth that is so obvious that all of us know it. But it's not a polite truth, so we don't talk about it. Yet I think it's important to say it out loud, because it is a truth that haunts our national discourse.
As ... |
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| A Debt The Founders Wouldn't Believe |
| Posted By:
BullsEye
on 6/30/2009 10:24:35 AM in
Road To Rome |
| Road To Rome |
| "In a 1789 letter to James Madison, Thomas Jefferson wrote: "The earth belongs to each of these generations, during its course, fully, and in their own right. The 2d. generation receives it clear of the debts and encumbrances of the 1st. The 3d of th ... |
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| Obama Versus The Founders |
| Posted By:
DAD
on 6/30/2009 7:43:51 AM in
Road To Rome |
| Road To Rome |
| Frank Rosenbloom stresses nature of a 'republic,' warns of its destruction"Slow down, you move too fast. You got to make the republic last … That line paraphrases Paul Simon's song that recommends moving slowly. President Obama stated that he will no ... |
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| Hijacking A Religion Mullah Style |
| Posted By:
DOC
on 6/30/2009 10:18:09 AM in
COMMENT CORNER |
| COMMENT CORNER |
| Not a Theocracy but a Thugocracy
"The last eight years well intentioned people of different political beliefs, different religious faiths, and different cultural perspectives have been quietly asking themselves some vital questions. Is Islam a re ... |
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| Runaway Spending = Runaway Debt |
| Posted By:
WAG
on 6/28/2009 9:20:00 AM in
Road To Rome |
| Road To Rome |
| "Budget: The U.S. is on the fiscal road to ruin — with massive spending expected to create soaring deficits and mountains of debt. Don't take our word for it. Just listen to the nonpartisan think tank that advises Congress.
"Under current law," sa ... |
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| Tomatoes And Cheap Labor |
| Posted By:
Letters
on 6/28/2009 9:07:13 AM in
MYTHS |
| MYTHS |
| CHEAP TOMATOES?This should make everyone think, be you Democrat, Republican or Independent From a California school teacher…"As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that you should be aware ... |
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| 700 NYC Teachers Paid To Do Nothing |
| Posted By:
Professor
on 6/24/2009 7:30:45 AM in
The Waste Wing |
| The Waste Wing |
| "Hundreds of New York City public school teachers accused of offenses ranging from insubordination to sexual misconduct are being paid their full salaries to sit around all day playing Scrabble, surfing the Internet or just staring at the wall, if th ... |
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| Myths, Lies And Stupidity About Health Care |
| Posted By:
Caxy
on 6/24/2009 7:07:07 AM in
HEALTHCARE MYTHS |
| MYTHS |
| Ben Shapiro: 'The answer is competition between insurers, not government monopoly'
President Barack Obama's health care plan, we are told, will spend $1 trillion over the next 10 years. But since trillion is the new billion, Americans aren't suppo ... |
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| The Amazing Colossal Presidency |
| Posted By:
FlyBoy
on 6/22/2009 11:12:29 AM in
Road To Rome |
| Road To Rome |
| "In April of 1979, a week or so after the nuclear-near-disaster at Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Saturday Night Live did a sketch featuring Dan Akroyd as President Jimmy Carter. Playing on the idea that Carter had a background in e ... |
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| "De" Nile Flows Out Of Washington |
| Posted By:
Heidi
on 6/22/2009 10:53:30 AM in
COMMENT CORNER |
| COMMENT CORNER |
| The uninsured: A bogus excuse for trillions in new welfare spending'The Democrats' health care initiative reminds me of the joke about the Boy Scout fighting on a street corner with an old lady.When a passerby asked what was going on, the scout said, ... |
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| New Report Highlights Nationalized Health Care's Failures |
| Posted By:
TBird
on 6/22/2009 9:45:07 AM in
HEALTHCARE |
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| "In Canada, where government provides health care for all of its citizens, the average wait time for life-threatening cancer treatment is seven weeks and the average wait time is nine hours for emergency visits. “A median of seven weeks for cancer tr ... |
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| Obama Closes Doors On Openness |
| Posted By:
Eagle1
on 6/21/2009 8:10:31 AM in
Hypocrisy Hotline |
| Hypocrisy Hotline |
| As a senator, Barack Obama denounced the Bush administration for holding "secret energy meetings" with oil executives at the White House. But last week public-interest groups were dismayed when his own administration rejected a Freedom of Information ... |
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| Government At Its Best |
| Posted By:
Bernie
on 6/18/2009 11:23:14 AM in
GOVERNMENT |
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| Illustrating why they are in charge, "L.A. County officials have offered a novel idea to save millions" ...Supervisors suggest putting unemployed parents to work caring for their own children as part of proposed changes to CalWorks and other state go ... |
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| A Myth That "Certified' Teachers Are More Qualified |
| Posted By:
DAD
on 6/18/2009 8:00:34 AM in
MYTHS |
| MYTHS |
| 'Mom, dad better than certified teachers'Report says it's 'myth' that 'qualifications' helpNot only do a long list of studies show that mom and dad can teach their own children as effectively as any "certified" teacher, there are indications that for ... |
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| 7% |
| Posted By:
Letters
on 6/18/2009 7:19:41 AM in
COMMENT CORNER |
| COMMENT CORNER |
| Some worthwhile, reasonable, uplifting thoughts herein.Written By Regina Brett, 50 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio. "To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever wri ... |
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| 5 Myths The Left Has Created About Itself |
| Posted By:
Professor
on 6/17/2009 9:49:21 AM in
MYTHS |
| MYTHS |
| "Via Hollywood, the mainstream media, and the school systems, the Left has created a number of positive myths about their ideology, none of which stand up to the slightest amount of informed scrutiny. Liberals are pro-women: No, no: liberals are pro- ... |
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| The Friend Of My Enemy Is My Enemy |
| Posted By:
Liberty
on 6/16/2009 7:58:09 AM in
IGNORANCE |
| IGNORANCE |
| Guess who's supporting Sotomayor?Communist Party backs confirmation for Supreme CourtThe way to end "right-wing" terrorism in the U.S. is to confirm Sonia Sotomayor as a Supreme Court justice, boycott Fox News and support Barack Obama's plan for nati ... |
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| Shooting The Watchdog |
| Posted By:
FlyBoy
on 6/15/2009 8:48:40 PM in
Hypocrisy Hotline |
| Hypocrisy Hotline |
| "Oversight: The inspector general for the AmeriCorps program is fired after accusing an administration supporter of misappropriating funds. The only thing transparent in this administration is its cronyism and hypocrisy.
After "hope" and "change," ... |
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| Let’s All Accept Islam |
| Posted By:
FlyBoy
on 6/15/2009 8:42:41 PM in
COMMENT CORNER |
| COMMENT CORNER |
| "Mr. Obama, your speech in Cairo encouraged me to reconsider my thoughts on how I view Islam as a religion in today’s society. I have really thought it over and decided to fully accept Islam … with just a few caveats. First, they have to stop treatin ... |
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