Jeff Sessions, Attorney General and leader of the Department of Justice, has suffered a lot of criticism, more from President Trump and Republicans than from Democrats. They are disappointed because he has recused himself and has been silent and passive regarding investigation of several urgent, high-profile matters including: Subversive Russian propaganda pumped through social media […]
The Senate Ethics Committee is where scandals go to disappear. Last Thursday Leeann Tweeden, a radio news anchor in Los Angeles went public with the revelation that Minnesota Senator Al Franken had sexually assaulted her. Franken, you’ll remember is a typical liberal, sanctimoniously denouncing millions of American voters as racist, sexist bigots just because we […]
Government failure enabled mass murder in a Texas church. A heroic private citizen ended the slaughter. Liberals would criminalize the hero. The background to this tragedy begins in 2012. The Church Murderer, CM (we’re omitting his name and using the initials CM out of disrespect) pled guilty in a General Court Martial – a military […]
The Supreme Court announced that it would review and determine the legality of a key Obamacare regulation, written by the IRS. Through this regulation the IRS empowered itself to give subsidies in the form of tax credits to people who buy ObamaCare health insurance policies from healthcare.gov, the federal government’s health insurance exchange. Back in […]
A seismic Obamacare ruling from the US Court of Appeals – D.C. Circuit provides lessons in three ways the dominant American political ideology, called Progressivism or Liberalism, makes government corrupt and dysfunctional, inflicting costs and burdens, both seen and unseen, upon The People. Using the income tax to weaken the Constitutional system of checks and balances […]
How ironic that just as we begin year five of chaotic, stop-and-start Obamacare implementation, a scandal over malfeasance in the Veterans Administration health care system bursts into the headlines. The VA’s own Inspector General announced that as a result of whistle-blower reports, 26 facilities are now under investigation, accused of maintaining off-the-books waiting lists, designed […]
In his State of the Union speech President Obama ran through his laundry list of proposed new government run programs and government spending that he called “investments,” including this: Research shows that one of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education. Last year, I asked this Congress to […]
Communication from the Congressional “Super Committee” reminds us of an overused gag from “I Love Lucy” and other early TV sitcoms. Rickey comes home from work to learn that his ditzy wife Lucy has spent money they can’t afford on something they don’t need and he doesn’t want. Lucy assures him the unneeded trinket […]
First of a Three Part Series The political-media establishment often cites Medicare as a “popular” example of the benefits of activist government, unrestrained by Constitutional limits. But in a rational world Medicare would be seen as a monument to progressive myths, deceptions and failures. In 1965 President Lyndon Johnson traveled to the Missouri home of […]
If we’ve learned nothing else from the miserable experience of the past three years we have learned that massive government borrowing and spending creates debt, not jobs. The Labor Department released it’s monthly Jobs report on April 1. The chart, tracks the results of the response by Presidents Bush and Obama to the current, deep […]
