From The Economist: FOR elected officials life in Washington, DC, holds many advantages. One is having a network of friends and associates who keep you well informed. But allegations have surfaced that politicians sometimes make use of this privileged access
In April we exposed Obama’s overseer of union financial disclosure and his personal conflicts-of-interest. Now we have well-sourced evidence that Director John Lund is telling union officials to bypass Department of Labor investigators and work with him personally. Imagine if
Today, the President signed an Executive Order to prevent drug shortages and protect consumers.
Earlier we told you how the AP buried the lede when a man toting a gun showed up at an Occupy Atlanta protest. Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed’s full statement here. The Associated Press published a report this morning about the
The Associated Press published a report this morning about the Occupy Oakland protests. Way, way down at the bottom of article was this explosive detail about Occupy Atlanta: Mayor Kasim Reed had been supportive of the protests, twice issuing an
In the 1980s, I was an unrefined adolescent from blue-collar Butler, Pennsylvania. I knew nothing and cared nothing about politics. I had no idea if I was a conservative or liberal, Democrat or Republican, or much of anything else. But
A video has gone viral on YouTube prompting well over one million viewers to debate heroism, the Marine Corps, Occupy Wall Street, and the New York City Police Department. Some may believe the video as moving, inspirational, and even possibly
Continuing a fiat governance style that is right out of the Obama playbook, Democratic and Working Families Party Governor Dannel Malloy issued two executive orders yesterday that will force daycare providers and home healthcare workers in Connecticut to join unions.
The globalists at the United Nations are busy preparing their agenda for the Rio + 20 Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which will be held on June 4 – 6, 2012. They have prepared a draft entitled “Enabling a
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was held on August 2 – 6, 2010 in Bonn, Germany. It was the third round of U. N. climate change negotiations with representatives from 178 governments present. The meeting was
On August 5th Cuba’s Stalinist regime upheld their sentence of 15 years for U.S. citizen Alan Gross, a contractor for USAID jailed in Cuba since December 3rd, 2009 for bringing cell-phone and internet equipment into Castro’s fiefdom. Mr Gross was
From Politico: Rep. James Clyburn and a group of House Democrats are urging President Barack Obama to invoke the 14th Amendment to raise the debt ceiling if Congress can’t come up with a satisfactory plan before the Tuesday deadline. Clyburn,
Controversial card check drive by AFSCME and SEIU aims for governor’s executive order Thousands of licensed Minnesota day care providers may soon become unionized at the stroke of Governor Dayton’s pen via executive order as an increasingly contentious, yet largely
“DADT: Why I Question Repealing Morality,” Part I (“Why I’m Questioning”) is online at Big Peace. I had intended the writing of Part II to be a rather short endeavor, but the more I wrote the more I realized how
Pennsylvania and Texas are finally investigating abortion clinics that allegedly have violations and that’s a healthy sign, but what is Louisiana waiting for? I’ve been told that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is a good man and there’s even been some
President Obama bypassed Congressional approval when, on July 19, 2010, he signed Executive Order 13547 – Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts, and the Great Lakes . On June 12, 2009 he established the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force and
Recently immediately after Congressman Darrell Issa finished giving a speech from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, I caught up with him for his most recent comments on the investigation into the ATF gunwalking scandal known as Projects
Badruddin Haqqani is a terrorist. He is the leader of the Taliban affiliated group known as the Haqqani Network in Afghanistan. This group predominantly operates in Eastern Afghanistan and Western Pakistan. Today, the U.S. State Department released a new Executive
The National Right To Work Committee and many other liberty based organizations, BigGovernment.com, legislators like Gov. Nikki Haley and Sen. Jim DeMint; and an increasing number of news organizations and commentators are exposing and even demanding that Obama Administration pullback
Looking to the 2012 elections, top operatives with organized labor say they are going to concentrate their efforts at the state level and will withhold their support for federal candidates. In the 2008 election cycle, unions spent almost $80 million
[youtube _oR7jI55R3c] Has President Barack Obama been deceiving America, with his Ethics Executive Order 13490? It certainly appears that the actions of the Obama Administration are far from his recent statement that he has “put into place the toughest ethics
It’s easy to complain about the IRS, but more often than not the bureaucrats are simply carrying out the bad policies imposed by Congress. There certainly are some egregious cases of IRS abuse, but it’s typically the fault of lawmakers
On Saturday Castro’s court handed down a sentence of 15 years to Alan Gross, a contractor for USAID jailed in Cuba since Dec. 2009 for bringing cell-phone and internet equipment into Castro’s fiefdom. Mr Gross was trying to help Cuba’s
According to two reports on Pars Daily News, an Iranian news website, both opposition leaders, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi have been transferred to a secret prison in Tehran. The source of the first report filed is from another
Senator Marco Rubio means business…but not with Castro. Senator Marco Rubio’s first filed amendment seeks to enhance our national security. Naturally this entails trying to nullify a recent Obama Executive Order. Last month president Obama , finally despairing that the
