You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. - Charles Austin Beard







Friday, January 21, 2011

House GOP Lists $2.5 Trillion in Spending Cuts - US News and World Report

House GOP Lists $2.5 Trillion in Spending Cuts - US News and World Report

Moving aggressively to make good on election promises to slash the federal budget, the House GOP today unveiled an eye-popping plan to eliminate $2.5 trillion in spending over the next 10 years. Gone would be Amtrak subsidies, fat checks to the Legal Services Corporation and National Endowment for the Arts, and some $900 million to run President Obama's healthcare reform program.

What's more, the "Spending Reduction Act of 2011" proposed by members of the conservative Republican Study Committee, chaired by Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, would reduce current spending for non-defense, non-homeland security and non-veterans programs to 2008 levels, eliminate federal control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, cut the federal workforce by 15 percent through attrition, and cut some $80 billion by blocking implementation of Obamacare. [See a slide show of the top Congressional travel destinations.]

Some of the proposed reductions will surely draw Democratic attack, such as cutting the Ready to Learn TV Program, repeal of the Davis-Bacon Act, the elimination of the Energy Star Program, and cutting subsidies to the Woodrow Wilson Center. [See editorial cartoons about the GOP.]



GO GOP!!

Thursday, January 20, 2011

"In God We Trust" Under Attack Again


"In God We Trust" Under Attack Again


Michael Newdow is at it again. The self-appointed spokesman for America’s atheists has once more appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to order the removal of the phrase “In God We Trust” from the nation’s currency.

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Governor to disconnect 48,000 cellphones in hands of state workers [Updated]

Governor to disconnect 48,000 cellphones in hands of state workers [Updated]

Alarmed at discovering that the state pays for 96,000 cellphones, Gov. Jerry Brown issued an executive order Tuesday seeking to cut in half the number of devices being billed to taxpayers.


So far so good at what he's doing but the jury ain't out yet.

Friday, January 07, 2011

Why the Constitution is Better Than Marx

Why the Constitution is Better Than Marx

In 1787, the Constitution proclaimed a political philosophy that has led to greater well-being and happiness for more people over more centuries than anything Europe's totalitarians ever did. But precisely because the Constitution limits the greed of the power-hungry, it is always under assault. Every generation needs to understand that because human nature has not changed since 1800. Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler are alive somewhere today, because greed for absolute power is part of human nature. Look at the absolute dictators around the world; they are no different. If we are not the brainwashed followers of a Napoleon or Hitler, it is only because our minds have not been dominated by some totalitarian ideology. That is what at stake today, just as it is in every generation.


Follow the link and read the entire article!!

Thursday, January 06, 2011

Wednesday, January 05, 2011

First order of business | congress, constitution, government - Opinion - The Orange County Register

First order of business congress, constitution, government - Opinion - The Orange County Register

If the new Congress to be sworn in today is the Tea Party's cardinal achievement so far, its most symbolic achievement will come Thursday, when the first order of business in the House will be a reading – aloud – of the Constitution. That event alone will not bring us any closer to limited government. But it will help get a debate going that for too long has been dormant.

Already, House Democrats are lining up to ridicule a closely related rule that the Republican majority has said it will adopt, requiring members to cite the specific constitutional authority for any bill they introduce. "It's an air kiss they're blowing to the Tea Party," says Barney Frank, outgoing chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. Henry Waxman, outgoing chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, all but dismissed any role for Congress in assessing the constitutionality of its actions: "Whether it is constitutional or not is going to be whether the Supreme Court says it is."




What a damn good idea!

Monday, January 03, 2011

Henry Miller: Senators all wet about 'tainted' water | chromium, water, california - Opinion - The Orange County Register

Henry Miller: Senators all wet about 'tainted' water chromium, water, California - Opinion - The Orange County Register

California's U.S. senators have demonstrated once again how a little bad science goes a long way.

In response to a gratuitous "study" released in December by a notoriously ideological radical environmental outfit, the Environmental Working Group, the senators called on the Environmental Protection Agency to protect the public from contaminated tap water.



Follow the link and read the entire article and then thank the voters of CA for returning Boxer back to the Senate (idiots)!