Dr. Marvin J. Folkertsma,FloydReports.com Karl Marx famously quipped that great historical events and personages appear twice,first as tragedy and second as farce. The tragedy he had in mind was the French Revolution and the farce was its pale successor that took place in France in 1848. To the contrary,events leading up [...] Susan Stamper Brown,FloydReports.com We’ve heard a lot of pep-talks recently that it might be time to for Americans to reduce their living standards and expectations in order to accept the “New Normal” that is inevitable if Washington’s reckless spending spree on the taxpayer’s dime continues. It’s difficult to grasp the notion that citizens [...] Don Feder,GrassTopsUSA.com “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” —H.L. Mencken. According to an April 17-19 Washington Post-ABC News Poll,a majority,or at the very least a plurality,of Americans are:1) insane;2) brainwashed;3) really,really [...] Michael Oberndorf The badly misnamed “mainstream” media have been outdoing themselves lately in their efforts to bring down capitalist America,as the propaganda machine of the neo-fascist Left. The notion that they are even aware of mainstream American thought is a big lie,in and of itself. The radical leftists whose agenda they push [...] Fred A. Kingery If you had been living on another planet the last three years,you would be shocked to learn that the credit-rating agency,Standard and Poor’s (S&P),has placed the current AAA credit rating for the debt issued by the U.S. Treasury on a “negative watch” status. Most of us who live [...] Floyd and Mary Beth Brown,FloydReports.com John Boehner will be writing his own political obituary if he capitulates again to Barack Obama and raises the debt ceiling of the U.S. government. Boehner says he wants to cut spending,but he will be exposed as a liar if he increases the debts currently smothering our [...] Michael Reagan,FloydReports.com There is a struggle now being waged in Washington,the outcome of which will determine whether the nation’s economy will grow or continue to falter. The main combatants are President Barack Obama and a thoughtful member of Congress from the nation’s heartland,Rep. Paul Ryan,R-WI. One of them,the president,[...] Ben Johnson,FloydReports.com As the nation digests Barack Obama’s plan to ride a tax hike to re-election,one phrase from yesterday’s budget speech confirms what this author has long stated:the president is fundamentally an anti-American Messianic figure who believes he was sent to save our nation from itself and its Founders. Speaking a [...] Floyd and Mary Beth Brown Obama is a born again deficit cutter. He wants,according to his speech at George Washington University this week,to slim down nation’s deficit by a whopping four trillion dollars in the next 12 years. To achieve this miraculous goal he has a top secret weapon. It is called [...] Ben Johnson,FloydReports.com Barack Obama has unveiled his agenda for balancing the budget:Raising taxes on the living,then sending them to an early grave. In his speech this afternoon,Obama confirmed long-running suspicions that he views extravagant expenditures as “core investments,”believes all wealth belongs to the government,questions the “patriotism”of those [...] Michael Reagan,FloydReports.com Republicans acted on the message voters sent in the 2010 congressional elections when they elected more than enough members of the House to control that body;they tackled the scandal of out-of-control spending and the voters responded. So far they have shoved a poison pill down the throats of spending-happy House [...] Terrence P. Jeffrey,CNSNews.com If you look at the historical tables attached to President Barack Obama’s latest budget proposal,they say the federal government took in $2.165 trillion in revenues in fiscal 2010 and spent $3.720 trillion,leaving a federal deficit of approximately $1.555 trillion. This looks like a horror story,of course. Yet [...] Rob Bluey,Foundry Blog Billions of dollars in potential oil revenue that could help close the federal deficit is being lost as a result of President Obama’s anti-drilling agenda. Production in the Gulf of Mexico — which normally accounts for about 30 percent of all U.S. production — is expected to drop this year [...] Rep. Michelle Bachmann,R-MN,speech at the Polish-American Cultural Center in Troy,Michigan on December 28,2010. This Tea Party leader calls out our commander-in-chief for derailing America’s national defense and spending us into perpetual debt. She also mentions how the liberals’smug attitude and disdain for our Founding Fathers led her to leave the [...] | |
