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Category: Politics

  • NAACP Requires Photo I.D. to See Speech

    Earlier today, Attorney General Eric Holder addressed the NAACP Nation Convention at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. What did media need in order to attend? That’s right, government issued photo identification (and a second form of identification too!), something both Holder and the NAACP stand firmly against when it comes to…

  • Denise Rich: Democrat Who Fled the U.S.

    Denise Rich, the wealthy socialite and former wife of pardoned billionaire trader Marc Rich, has given up her U.S. citizenship – and, with it, much of her U.S. tax bill. Rich, 68, a Grammy-nominated songwriter and glossy figure in Democratic and European royalty circles, renounced her American passport in November, according to her lawyer. via…

  • Eat the Rich vs. Obama

    I was reading this story: President Barack Obama will officially launch the battle over the impending fiscal cliff this morning, announcing a plan to extend the Bush-era tax cuts for people earning under $250,000, while letting the rest of the tax cuts expire. via Business Insider. This got me thinking about how much money will…

  • John Kerry = Inside Trader and Profiteer

    Another oldie but goodie: For years, Kerry has invested millions in a number of green energy companies that have benefitted from the president’s efforts to aggressively subsidize the industry with taxpayer dollars. These companies include Exelon, which received a $646 million taxpayer-guaranteed loan in 2011 to build a solar facility in California and created only…

  • NSA to Spy on Everyone… Everyone.

    Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the world’s communications as…

  • Dick Morris on Obama’s Motivations

    There’s something too this: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdTyUvY66Mw?rel=0] There is a similar situation going on with gun control in the states.  The argument is always”we need the federal government to control all guns because they travel from state to state.” This is a common theme with people on the “Left.”  They realize that their policies are horrible…

  • Gotta Love American Ingenuity (& Tax Avoidance)

    So I’m reading two stories (here and here) about a new law that will effectively outlaw Roll-Your-Own tobacco stores.  It’s something I kinda follow because I always thought it was a decent business model (until the government outlaws your business) and another fine example of what steps people will go through to avoid taxes. In…

  • More And More Americans Are Leaving

    Last year, nearly 1,800 Americans surrendered their citizenship. In a nation of 300 million folks, 1,800 émigrés is hardly a rush for the exits. But the recent trend is, nevertheless, intriguing.  … Who knows the exact reason why 1,800 Americans chose to leave last year — nine times as many as left four years earlier.…

  • Give a Lamb a Gun

    Herman Cain has a new website complete with video.  My first as so far favorite video is entitled Give a Lamb a Gun. It’s a priceless quote from Benjamin Franklin. The video is under 2 minutes… go check it out.

  • Less Cops = Less (Reported) Crime

    In the city’s most violent districts, police officers say, they may be assigned half a dozen jobs or more—covering everything from traffic accidents to assaults—at the start of a shift. Their watches are spent racing from call to call, while anything that requires investigation stacks up. Officers describe having to weigh whether to make an…