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Obama Administration Introduces Litmus Test for Civil Servants

Government employees in the United States generally fall into one of two categories: political appointees and civil servants.  Political appointees are selected based upon their loyalty to the office holder and when the office holder is replaced they lose their jobs.  Hillary Clinton and the other...
December 15th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More

Judicial Watch Sues Obama Over Transparency Failure

Judicial Watch, a non-profit organization with the slogan “Because no one is above the law” has files a federal lawsuit against Barack Obama. The lawsuit, Judicial Watch v. United States Secret Service, is a result of the Obama administration refusing to respond to requests made by Judicial...
December 15th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More

Percentage of Cabinet Appointees with Job Experience

This showed up in my mailbox and it was too “real” not to post: Past presidents and the percentage of each president’s cabinet appointees who had previously worked in the private sector. You know a real life business, not a government job? Remember what that is? A private business?...
December 13th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More

Give the Government Power and They Will Take Your Children

Another bizarre story of government overreach comes to us out of (previously Great) Britain. Lisa and Paul took their son Zak to the doctor because they were worried he wasn’t gaining weight quickly enough.  Zak was 17lbs, 6oz and the NHS (National Health Service) doctors told the parents to stuff...
December 7th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More

Dismantling America

Thomas Sowell wrote an article titled Dismantling America for Real Clear Politics.  The article is informally written, but I cannot help but think of it as a very early draft for the next American Declaration of Independence. The first American Declaration of Independence reads: … when a long...
December 3rd, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More

Why Are We Bothering to Prosecute these Guys?

A grand jury in Philadelphia recently indicted four men for a plot to support the terrorist group Hezbollah by purchasing 1,200 Colt M4 assault rifles and a number of Stinger missiles and smuggle them into Lebanon through Syria. This sort of thing is barely news anymore. U.S. weakness emboldens terrorists....
November 29th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More

Thomas Jefferson’s Campaign Song

These are the lyrics to “Jefferson and Liberty”, a campaign song used by Thomas Jefferson to win the 1800 U.S. presidential election. Note how far the United States has fallen since 1800.  Jefferson sang “To tyrants never bend the knee”, while Obama willingly bends knee to monarchs...
November 29th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More