For some time now I have been convinced that Joe Biden is the most stupid person inside the Beltway. Joe has certainly given Americans ample evidence to support of that theory. Hank Johnson has now managed to steal that distinction from Joe. Representative Johnson is a member of the Armed Services Committee. During this meeting [...]
Planet Iran has great coverage of the situation in Iran — stuff you just won’t see in the American mass media. The people are burning pictures of the “Supreme Leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. They are chanting slogans like “Khamenei’s a murderer; his leadership is null and void”, “Tanks, cannons, basiji…have no effect on us anymore.” [...]
Like a crack cocaine addict fighting to keep hold of his pipe, the Senate rejected an attempt by Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) to prevent senators from earmarking spending bills with pork barrel projects designed to buy votes in their home districts. Disappointingly, fifteen Republicans joined with the Democrats in killing the moratorium on earmarks. The [...]
During the federal fiscal year 2008, which ran from 1 October 2007 to 30 September 2008, the seventeen largest federal agencies rejected 312,683 requests for government transparency made under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Fast forwards one year and the situation has become far worse. The number of rejected requests for federal transparency have [...]
In a recent CNN poll, 56% of Americans stated that they believe the U.S. government poses an immediate threat to individual rights and freedoms. 56% is a slim majority, but it is a majority. A majority of Americans expressing that sort of distrust in our day and age is almost unbelievable, but in the days [...]
Monica Conyers, the wife of United States Representative John Conyers (D-MI), was sentenced to 37 months in prison and two years supervised probation. The sentence was a result of asking for and accepting bribes to influence the granting of a city contract. Mrs. Conyers had pleaded guilty, but upon hearing her sentenced she attempted to [...]
