Tag Archives: Congress

Business as Usual

In order for a democracy to function properly, the individuals embedded within the bureaucracy must be able to make informed, credible decisions and, more importantly, they must be able to compromise. When FDR brought his ‘New Deal’ to American politics, a new hard left was established. The coalition against it, comprised mostly of southern Republicans, […]

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Good for Wall Street, Bad for You

Bank and investor control of candidates is not unheard of, it isn’t even unexpected anymore. Corruption and finances are a natural, if not ethical, partnership, and unchecked business lobbyists are allowed to run rampant in congress with zero consequence. When organizations like Goldman-Sachs are allowed to pay candidates millions of dollars to speak, or make […]

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Outsourced at Home

On April 1st, the government began accepting applications for a special kind of immigrant visa, the H-1B visa. Every year, the government issues 85,000 of these visas to highly skilled foreign workers. These visas are intended to help American companies fill highly technical positions that they have not been able to find qualified American workers […]

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Treason in Congress?

This week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel was reelected in a surprise landslide victory. Israeli pollsters were predicting his right wing Likud party would come in second place to the centrist Zionist Union party, and are crediting his surprise victory with a blitz of media appearances he made in the final days before the […]

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Closing Guantanamo

One of President Barack Obama’s first actions after being sworn in as president in January of 2009 was to sign an executive order directing the Central Intelligence Agency to shut down its network of secret prisons and ordering the closing of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp. This closure never happened, both because of Congress’s reluctance […]

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Iran Talks

On Tuesday of this week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel addressed Congress on the subject of Iran. American diplomats, including Secretary of State John Kerry, have been engaged in negotiations with Iran over Iran’s desire to develop nuclear energy and, many believe, nuclear weapons. President Obama’s government is trying to find a way to […]

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They Hate America

Last week, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani declared his belief that President Obama does not love America. At a private fundraising dinner for Republican presidential hopeful Scott Walker, Giuliani said, “I do not believe – and I know this is a horrible thing to say – but I do not believe that the president […]

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Funding the DHS

We are living in extremely dangerous times. It seems like hardly a day goes by without a new threat or a new terrorist action somewhere in the world. There was the Charlie Hebdo attack in France, in which Islamic terrorists stormed a Parisian newspaper office, murdering journalists and political cartoonists, while a separate gunman attacked […]

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Obama’s ISIS Plan

While it has fallen out of the news cycle to some degree in recent months, the terrorist organization calling itself the Islamic State or ISIS has suddenly regained the media’s attention. With the incredibly barbaric and brutal murder of captured Jordanian fighter pilot, Lt. Moath al-Kasasbeh, and the reported death of American hostage Kayla Mueller, […]

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Failing Security

Two weeks ago, I wrote about how our current government in the United States has bent over backwards to appease the world’s bullies, like Russia, rather than standing up for what is right. In that post, I mentioned the provocative and dangerous Russian act of aggression against a United States Navy warship, the guided missile […]

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Un-American Activities

Following the financial crisis in 2008, the crisis that some called the second Great Depression, many pundits predicted that there would be new restrictions placed on the financial industry to prevent Wall Street from running our economy into the ground again. After all, with Congress’s repeal of the Glass-Steagal Act in 1999 under President Clinton, […]

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Fiscal Priorities

Charity begins at home! It seems that the attorneys and career politicians in Washington have forgotten this simple truth. America gives away tens of billions of dollars in foreign aid every single year, with most of this money being invested in countries where the citizens hate America and would treasure the opportunity to kill Americans […]

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Crumbling Infrastructure

On November 23, 60 Minutes aired a report called “Falling Apart: America’s Neglected Infrastructure.” This report has brought America’s crumbling infrastructure back into the spotlight. 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft traveled the United States to speak to experts and examine the state of our country’s roads and bridges. The cameramen collected images of crumbling bridges, […]

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War on the Middle Class

Earlier this year, the New York Times broke some news that was difficult for many of us to swallow. For the first time since we began tracking such things, the American middle class lost its status as the world’s wealthiest and most well off. Many measures of our economy, such as growth in Gross Domestic […]

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Enough Lawyers

Rearrange Priorities: We’ve had enough lawyers Despite all of their other differences, our elected representatives have one important thing in common. Right wing or left wing, Democrat or Republican, in the Senate, the House, or the White House, the majority of our representatives share the same profession: law. For many years, studying law has been […]

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