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June 11, 2013: Clear, positive, and constructive, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks on the Senate floor in opposition to the 1076 pages of Gang-of-Eight immigration bill as it is currently written.
As the Obamacare bill did for Kathleen Sebelius, the Gang-of-Eight bill grants enormous discretionary authority to Janet Napolitano to grant waivers and exceptions without approval or review by Congress. That makes this bill yet another abdication of Congress’ Constitutional authority via a bill s...
Nine months ago, I would have told you that Rubio was a shoo-in to be one of the front-runners for the GOP nomination in 2016. Brilliant, charming, affable (not to mention young and handsome), deeply committed to conservative principles and living the American Dream. And he is, by and large, all of those things.
That being said, his recent activities in the Gang Of Eight have done him tremendous damage among the base. Go on to Facebook and Twitter and check the pulse of the most active, informed...
In this video from Reason TV, Remy takes on the walking, talking ball of raging hypocrisy that is Jim Carrey. From his positions on guns to his crusade against life-saving vaccines, Carrey is certainly what one would call a target-rich environment.
One thing that Remy missed was Carrey’s comments bashing white people, collectively, as a group. It wasn’t in his “Cold Dead Hands” video, though that has been deemed an assault on rural and southern whites. Rather, it was in a...
Recently, my wife took me out t0 dinner for my birthday. Nothing fancy, as I happened to be a bit under the weather for my birthday this year, which prompted us to postpone a fancier dinner until I’m back in the pink. Just a local diner.
All around the wall of the diner, near the ceiling, they have old 45s (vinyl, single-song albums) lined up. We got to talking about how singles—long-ago made technologically obsolete—are probably fading from most people’s experiences, so we decid...
A technologist/entrepreneur who lives right on the Arizona border with Mexico has been perfecting a low-cost approach to tally the number of people who are walking across the border. As the debate over the immigration bill and its “triggers” intensifies, a technical approach like the one pioneered and championed by Glenn Spencer’sBorder Technology, Inc. is becoming ever more important.
On April 20, 2013, the Arizona 2012 Project sponsored one of many one-day round trips from...
Joe Biden in 2006 believed that a program in which 200 million Americans’ phone calls are tracked (even if the conversations themselves are not listened to) was worth investigation by Congress.
I guess it all depends on whose ox is being gored.
Oh, and one side note: Is it just me, or is Barack Obama without a teleprompter rather painful to listen to? Not exactly the most fluid speaker.
Starting with the metaphor of a trustworthy chicken sandwich, the judge talks about the importance of trust in those upon whom we count. In one of her video clips, even the president himself sounds sincere about the importance of trust in government officials.
So how do all those officials in the federal government stack up on trust?
Just plain lousy, as the judge outlines in her usual sharp-tongued Opening Statement. After walking through the litany of lying over the past few months, Judge ...
The video below is from Britain, but it could be anywhere. Anywhere where observant Muslims reach a certain percentage of the population, this will happen.
“If the law of the land is Islamic, we respect the law of the land.
“If the law of the land is not Islamic, then the law and those who make it can go to hell.”
That is not a distortion of what the man in the video (at approximately 3:20) says. That is what he said.
That is also not a distortion of Islam. THAT is what his r...
Problem solved; time to move on. That’s what Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) said this weekend about the IRS scandal. But just a couple days earlier Democrat Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) was sounding the alarm that the IRS spending is just “one example of what’s going on in every agency in the country.” So, is the problem really solved, or is Rep. Cummings just eager to move onto the next federal agency wasting millions of tax dollars?
In a May 21 Senate hearing, John McCain, Carl Levin, and assorted other Senators conducted a modern-day inquisition on executives from Apple, Inc. In that so-called “hearing”, they publicly berated the executives for making a handsome profit overseas and legally leaving it there rather than voluntarily bringing it back to the US for a do-it-yourself mugging at the world’s highest corporate tax rate.
Only Rand Paul, present at the hearing, called the whole session for what it wa...
Once again, Big Government is helping Big Corporations
Big Government and Big Corporations, often joined by Big Labor, form a modern corporatist axis, colluding to their own benefit, always at the expense of the taxpayer, the little guy, and small businesses. They write the rules that will govern their activities to their own advantage, and we pay for all of it, even though we’re not involved inn any of the negotiations. It’s a story with a long pedigree, from the corporatism of fasc...
In this emotional 5-minute video, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) assails the IRS for obscene hotel and conference spending at the same time the IRS’s employers, the American taxpayers, are struggling to make ends meet. While Gowdy targets only the IRS for its callously insensitive behavior. we all know this phenomenon is not unique to the IRS or GSA. This is a core problem of Big Government, whether led by Democrats or Republicans.
Irresponsibility like this is inevitable in any organization t...
Pity poor Judge Jeanine Pirro. Her Fox News show Justice airs only once a week. At the rate that the Obama regime scandals and embarrassments are piling up, she doesn’t really have time to update us on all of them. Her June 8 show must have been like being in a candy store — she wasn’t sure where to start.
Nonetheless, here is her incisive “Opening Statement” commentary on the past week’s growing collection of Obama-regime scandals. The backdrop is the...
Some of the points herein are echoed, albeit on a different subject, by Father Robert Barron. He points out in his very edifying and interesting videos on Catholicism that while science and technology may be advancing in a linear and upward progression, not everything else does. Art, for example, doesn’t simply “keep getting better.” Not everything humans do is linear and ever-improving. Some things go in cycles.
Senator Paul is absolutely right to draw a glowing line from the Magna Carta to the Constitution. The battle to limit government power has been long and hard-fought. The greatest victory of that battle—the new United States of America—was rare in human history. Almost miraculous, for indeed, it was the greatest limitation of state power in a history that, for the most part, has been dominated by various forms of oppression.
But alas, as we have seen over the 20th century, and very much accel...
We have, on more than one occasion, discussed the tragic demise of the city of Detroit. It truly is a horrific decline, one utterly unworthy of a supposedly first-world country.
In the video below, the Trifecta discuss how big government liberalism has destroyed this once-great city, spurred by a Michael Barone article, Behind the tragedy of Detroit, which is excerpted below the video.
Rep. Jackie Speier: “I think the IRS is just one example of what’s going on in every agency in the country …”(House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, “IRS Spending Culture and Conference Abuses” CSPAN 3, 6/6/13)
Today at a House Oversight hearing on IRS spending and conference abuses, Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) focused in on the “spend-it-or-lose-it” system in Washington that contributes to a “shopping spree mentality” ...
