National Debt of $16 Trillion: Is it a bad time?
Why isn’t there a debt clock in the convention hall in Charlotte, NC? $16 TRILLION is an astronomical number. If you were to count from 1 to 1 million without…
Are We Better Off? Business Publication Says No
Economic Conditions: All weekend, Democratic party leaders kept fumbling their answer to a simple question: Are we better off than we were four years ago? There’s a good reason for that:…
Four Plead Guilty to Voter Fraud
Little Rock, Ark. (AP) – A Democratic state legislator from east Arkansas, his father and two campaign workers pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to commit election fraud after federal prosecutors said the…
Democratic Platform Puts Culture Wars ahead of Fixing the Economy
If you thought the nation’s 8.3 percent unemployment rate and $1.3 trillion budget deficit were the top two issues of the 2012 election, then congratulations, you share the same priorities as the…
Dishonest Political Fact Checkers and the Pinocchio Press
by James Taranto In the 19th-century fairy tale “The Adventures of Pinocchio,” the eponymous protagonist is a wooden puppet who dreams of becoming an actual boy. We suppose people who…
Budget Failures Lead to Economic Woes
by George Landrith America’s national debt is dangerously close to $16 trillion. This is a staggering figure. It is impossible to comprehend in concrete terms. But we are rapidly approaching…
Solyndra in Space
by George Landrith The once great American space program is on life support. We now pay the Russians $65 million per seat to take our astronauts to and from the…
America’s Embarassing Energy Debacle
by George C. Landrith President Barack Obama has been criticized by both supporters and critics for making and then breaking too many campaign promises. Whether it was closing Guantanamo, ending…
Holder claims Executive Privilege, but it smells like a cover-up
by George Landrith and Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), which is part of the Department of Justice, ran “gun-walking” operations in which government…
Executive Privilege or Cover-up?
by George Landrith The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), which is part of the Department of Justice, ran the Fast and Furious “gun-walking” operation in which government agents…
Lessons from the Court’s Obamacare Ruling
by George Landrith What we learn from the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on Obamacare … First, the individual mandate is not constitutional under the commerce clause. So ruled the Supreme…
The Tenth Amendment: Protecting Freedom Against Big Government
by George Landrith The Tenth Amendment: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively,…
Stealing Elections and Silencing the Opposition
by George Landrith Throughout history, political extremists have attacked their opponents seeking to silence and suppress those with whom they disagree. Some form of bullying is almost always their chief…
The Election Year Jobs Charade
by George Landrith Now that the 2012 election is less than a year away, President Barack Obama is finally at least talking about jobs on a regular basis. However, Obama’s…
Supreme Court Impartiality and ObamaCare
by George Landrith There is a lot of talk about whether United States Supreme Court Associate Justices Clarence Thomas and Elena Kagan should recuse themselves from considering the constitutionality of…