The Obama administration is considering a massive reduction in foreign aid to Pakistan — and I am quite unhappy to be in agreement with the withdrawal of support to the failed Pakistani government. The Pakistani’s have supported the Taliban and Al Qaeda terrorist movements in Afghanistan, keeping that nation destabilized and poor in order to [...]
I keep staring at the article Obama’s Economists: ‘Stimulus’ Has Cost $278,000 per Job and I cannot get over the shock of thinking just how off-course America has become. The article describes how a report from the White House’s Council of Economic Advisors documents that the “stimulus” has added or saved just under 2.4 million [...]
The following is an excerpt from Barry Goldwater’s world-changing book, The Conscience of a Conservative. In this excerpt, I have taken the liberty of replacing each reference to the Communist threat with a reference to the Islamist threat. This plan, which Barry Goldwater laid out in 1960, was used by Ronald Reagan in the 1980′s [...]
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported another rise in the unemployment rate, from 9.1% in May to 9.2% in June. The unemployment rate has now been above 9% for twenty-four of the last twenty-six months. Government economists had estimated that the private sector would add 120,000 jobs in June, instead only 18,000 were added. There [...]
For the first time ever, the Census Bureau now reports than fewer than fifty percent of American households include a married couple. The Census Bureau’s Average Number of People per Household, by Race and Hispanic Origin, Marital Status, Age, and Education of Householder: 2010 reports shows that only 58,410,000 out of 117,538,000 American households list “Married [...]
Over two hundred years ago, Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence, kicking off the American revolution and the creation of the most exceptional nation in the history of mankind. Today we look back at that nation as it once existed and mourn what it has become — what we have let it become. In [...]
