Tag Archives: White House

Turn Things Around

Earlier this month, the Obama government and the Labor Department were bragging about how they have lowered the unemployment rate from its record high levels at the beginning of Obama’s administration. The official unemployment rate at the peak of the Great Recession in October 2009 was 10%, and according to the government, it has now […]

Political Dynasties

There is a very good chance that the 2016 Presidential Election ballot will look identical to the 1992 Presidential ballot. While right now, more than a year from the election, it is too early to say for certain who the nominees of the two mainstream parties will be, it seems likely that voters on November […]

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 […]

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, […]

Obama’s Budget

This week, President Obama introduced his budget plan for the next ten years. In this budget, the president created a wish list of government policies that sound too good to be true. The unfortunate fact is that these policies are too good to be true. They are simply another deception in the false Demo-Republican rivalry, […]

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 […]

Military Command

On November 24, 2014, the United States Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, announced his retirement from his position. This makes him the third Secretary of Defense under the Obama administration to retire without serving a full term. Before Mr. Hagel served, both Leon Panetta and Robert Gates stepped down after serving just a few years […]

Classroom Control

The American education system is in a state of crisis. Despite throwing more tax dollars at our K-12 education system than nearly any other country in the world, our students rank far below all of our main economic rivals in every important category. Every successive Presidential administration has proposed a series of plans to attempt […]

Senate “Torture” Report

With the recent release of the Senate’s report on the CIA’s alleged use of “torture,” many Americans are preoccupied with the idea of what exactly counts as “torture” and whether America should be in the business of torturing prisoners. But in all this hand-wringing and self-righteous complaining, it is important to remember the context of […]

Teaching to the Test

In 2002, President George W. Bush signed one of the most significant bills of his presidency, the No Child Left Behind Act. The goal of this legislation was to close the achievement gap, making sure that students from all over America would have the same opportunities to learn and achieve success. There was a general […]

Dysfunctional Government

On November 20, 2014, President Obama issued an historic executive order intended to provide relief to thousands of families who are struggling with our broken immigration system. Many Republican critics are declaring that the president’s executive order is unconstitutional and that they are going to do everything they can to counter this action when the […]

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 […]

Medical Costs

The United States health care system is in a state of crisis, and every effort our government has made to improve things has only made it worse. The most recent effort, Obamacare, attempted to create conditions that would allow all Americans to have access to health insurance. Instead, it just drove up the cost that […]