Ben Johnson,The White House Watch When asked what policy would most benefit the citizens of east Tennessee and help put the Volunteer State back to work,one state Senate candidate had a simple answer:impeach Barack Obama. The Knoxville News Sentinel gave the three women seeking the Republican nomination a questionnaire asking if [...] Leah Durant,FloydReports.com This week marks the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 41st Annual Legislative Conference,which was be held on September 23,2011,in Washington,D.C. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas served as the host. The title of the conference was,“African-Americans:Joining the Leading Edge of the High Tech Boom!”and the [...] Frank York,EPA Abuse Liberals subscribe to the “broken window fallacy”of economic growth. Susan Kraemer,a columnist for the “green” web site Technica,is encouraged that the EPA is going to gut the coal industry by shutting down 20 percent of the plants by 2012. According to Kraemer,the [...] In implementing the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the new health care reform law),the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently issued a rule requiring almost all private health plans to cover contraception and sterilization as “preventive services” for women. The mandate even forces individuals and groups with [...] S.T. Karnick,FloydReports.com There will be blood,suggests columnist Kevin Jackson at The Black Sphere. The author of The BIG Black Lie deftly critiques U.S. Rep. Andre Carson’s (D-IN) calumnies against the Tea Party and by extension all Caucasian non-statists,explains why this summer’s U.S. mob violence is just the beginning,and,most important [...] Ben Johnson,The White House Watch The Mexican government has opened two criminal investigations into Operation Fast and Furious,the deadly ATF operation that allowed the Sinaloa drug cartel to purchase $1.25 million in illegal guns responsible for countless acts of violence south of the border. Reasonable people may ask when the United States [...] Ben Johnson,The White House Watch Yahoo News has an interesting story today,noting among other things that Herman Cain —who scored a major upset victory in the Florida straw poll over the weekend —twice thought of quitting the presidential race. “I’ve only had two days where I personally felt,should I [...] Dr. Tracy Miller,FloydReports.com During the last Republican presidential debate,Herman Cain argued that,as a survivor of colon and liver cancer,he would have died if “ObamaCare” had been in place when he sought critical treatment. It was a stunning statement,and it certainly underscores the real concern that people have with bureaucratic [...] Frank York,EPA Abuse Obama’s Green Energy Agenda kills jobs.The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing Friday morning entitled,“How Obama’s Green Energy Agenda Is Killing Jobs.” The oversight committee is headed by California Republican Darrell Issa. The committee has also published a 36-page document on Obama’s job killing green agenda. [...] Judicial Watch This week’s Obamacare scandal du jour comes from a congressional panel that concludes the administration lied to push a costly long-term care program known as Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS). Internal documents obtained by lawmakers from a committee of House and Senate Republicans reveal officials in Obama’s Department of Health [...] Ben Johnson,The White House Watch Obama is on the stump before the group that most supports his agenda,the Congressional Black Caucus,and he’s never looked angrier. The president and the CBC have a friendly spat going,because members such as Maxine Waters believe Obama has not done enough for her constituents. [...] Ben Johnson,The White House Watch On Thursday,Barack Obama gave a stump speech in Cincinnati to bolster his $477 billion wealth redistribution jobs bill. “We used to have the best infrastructure in the world here in America,”he griped. “We’re the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad.” America build the Transcontinental Railroad,not [...] NewsMax.com As legal challenges to President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul proceed to a decisive U.S. Supreme Court battle,state ballot boxes are becoming skirmishing grounds in efforts to impede the law. Ohio residents will vote on Nov. 8 on an amendment to their constitution aimed at undercutting the federal Affordable Care Act,joining four [...] Floyd and Mary Beth Brown,FloydReports.com Today one of America’s most important conservative leaders is under brutal assault from the radical Left,and he desperately needs conservatives from across America to rally to his defense. His name is Russell Pearce,and he is the president of the Senate in Arizona. In a replay of [...] Moe Lane,RedState.com Yes,my brothers and sisters:it’s that magical time in an administration where the old tradition is observed of cursing Jimmy Carter’s bones and liver for signing the Independent Counsel Act. Because Darrell Issa called for a special prosecutor earlier this week: House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa on Tuesday called for [...] | |