Republican Gov. Jan Brewer is expected to sign a new immigration law passed by the state House of Representatives. It will now be a misdemeanor to not have the proper immigration paperwork in Arizona. It will also require police to determine a person’s immigration status, if they feel they may be an illegal immigrant. Currently, [...]
A member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), explained that he would be ok with a gay supreme court nominee “as long as it doesn’t interfere with their job, it’s not a particular issue.” He said the candidate would need to be “satisfied with being an umpire and doesn’t want to be a [...]
Obama has been criticized by Republicans for attempting to renew a new nuclear arms treaty with Russia. The new START treaty would limit the number of nuclear warheads to 1,550, a two-thirds reduction from the original START treaty. The number of nuclear missile launchers will be reduced by half. It’s seen by the international community as a break through to stop [...]
“George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld covered up that hundreds of innocent men were sent to the Guantánamo Bay prison camp because they feared that releasing them would harm the push for war in Iraq and the broader War on Terror, according to a new document obtained by The Times.” [Read More]
Today is “Tax Freedom Day.” It’s the conservative day to remind all Americans exactly how much they pay in taxes. They say if you work from January 1st until today all of that money goes to the government in taxes and from this day forward for the rest of the year you can keep your [...]
People often talk about how our country is attempting to redistribute wealth, but people seem to ignore that the wealthiest individuals are being taxed substantially less now than during most of this country’s recent history. From 1917 until now we have had tax rates for the highest incomes groups up to 92% of their income. That rate [...]
The Chicago Tribune discusses how Christian agencies are still receiving federal funds and use those funds to hire or fire based on religion or lack of religion. [Read More]
The Obama administration is requiring all top government agencies to release information that has never been available to the public before. Each government department is required to post three major collections of “high-value” information to the public. The information will be available for easy access online. Open government organizations are encouraged by the initiative. One major piece [...]
Is this a government takeover of health care? No, there is no government run health care plan in the bill. The health care bill does not change how hospitals are run and does not take over any part of the health care industry. What about the national insurance exchange? Isn’t that government run? No, the [...]
Bart Stupak (D-MI) has been working to kill the Democrat’s health care bill because he believes it does not go far enough banning abortion coverage under private insurance plans. In practice, the more people have access to health care, the lower the abortion rates are. Bart Stupak is not only working against his pro-life arguments, [...]
