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Obama co-sponsers national finger-print database bill

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Abuse of Power, Constitution, big government, personal responsibility, privacy, rights | No Comments »

Senators Mel Martinez and Diane Feinstein along with 11 co-sponsors include Barack Obama have authored a bill creating a national finger-print registry according to analysis of the bill.  Yet another step towards a surveillance society.  And another hint of the type of “Change” that Barack Obama will support - fewer freedoms.
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Martinez press release: http://martinez.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=NewsReleases.View&ContentRecord_id=89001ad0-4718-47ed-8145-7c7398179489&IsTextOnly=False
Heritage Foundation on the [...]

Commander in chief of our economy? How about Freedom?

Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Abuse of Power, Constitution, big government, personal responsibility, rights | No Comments »

“It’s time for a president who is ready on day one to be the commander in chief of our economy. ” Hillary Clinton, March 27, 2008
 ”I don’t want to run the national economy!  I want your national economy runners to leave me alone!”  Dagny Taggart, Atlas Shrugged  
The nature of freedom is being in charge of [...]

Sharpton says don’t seat Florida and Michigan Delegates in 2008

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
elections, personal responsibility, rights | No Comments »

“I firmly believe that changing the rules now, and seating delegates from Florida and Michigan at this point would not only violate the Democratic party’s rules of fairness, but also would be a grave injustice. … I knew the rules, abided by them, and ultimately accepted the consequences. Changing the rules in the middle of a [...]

Global Warming Hypocrisy continues…

Thursday, December 6th, 2007
big government, global warming, personal responsibility, united nations | No Comments »

Bloomberg has a story today about the United Nations (UN) Climate Summit in Bali (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601170&refer=home&sid=aPbfclqokwcw) and how the summit will produce as much pollution as 20,000 cars in a year (7.3 million cars in one day).  Yes, you read that right, 20,000 cars in a year. Do as they say, not as they do because [...]

Spitzer decries Hyperpartisanship

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Constitution, big government, foreign policy, personal responsibility, rights, trade | No Comments »

Nothing reflects the result of hyperpartisanship more than the current immigration debate, which has become so toxic that anytime a practical proposal is put forward, it is shot down before it can even be weighed on its merits. New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, November 14, 2007
One wonders what Gov. Spitzer would have said about Patrick [...]

Barack Obama-’I deserve a tax increase’

Monday, November 12th, 2007
Constitution, big government, elections, personal responsibility, taxes | No Comments »

“And [Buffett] has said, and I think a lot of us who have been fortunate are willing to pay a little bit more to make sure that a senior citizen who is struggling to deal with rising property taxes or rising heating bills, that they’ve got the coverage that they need.” Barack Obama, November 11, [...]

Sicko Michael Moore and the truth about Cuba

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Constitution, big government, capitalism, foreign policy, personal responsibility, rights | No Comments »

Michael Moore, please call your office – or the church. In a stunning move, the very liberal Episcopal Church unintentionally repudiates Michael Moore’s manipulative movie Sicko.
As is typical for the Episcopal Church, the Church again injected politics into the pulpit, at least this time, it was something that people could -and should- [...]

Buffett says taxes are too low, but doesn’t pay more himself

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Constitution, First Amendment, big government, capitalism, personal responsibility, privacy, rights, taxes | No Comments »

Echoing his comments in June, Warren Buffett is complaining about tax rates as being too low. The relevant question is: has he done anything about it or is he just being a hypocrite, again?
Let’s see what Buffett has actually done instead of said: Buffett is giving away is fortune (http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/25/magazines/fortune/charity1.fortune/). [...]

Warren Buffett attacks tax rates as being too low?

Thursday, June 28th, 2007
big government, capitalism, personal responsibility, taxes | 1 Comment »

“Mr Buffett said that he was taxed at 17.7 per cent on the $46 million he made last year, without trying to avoid paying higher taxes, while his secretary, who earned $60,000, was taxed at 30 per cent.” (see Times Online article)
Sounds like Warren Buffett has a perfect argument to lower his secretary’s tax rate [...]

A Race to Liberty, Not a Race to the Bottom

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
Constitution, big government, capitalism, personal responsibility | No Comments »

The phrase “Race to the Bottom” is a semantic slight of hand used to attempt to color your opinion prior to even looking at the situation over which the phrase is used. The phrase “Race to the bottom” was coined by US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in the 1933 case, Ligget Co. v. Lee [...]

Five Disgraceful Supreme Court Justices on Kelo

Sunday, June 26th, 2005
big government, personal responsibility, rights, supreme court | No Comments »

Sunday, June 26, 2005 Five Disgraceful ‘Justices’ on the US Supreme Court in Kelo vs New London (125 S. Ct. 2655 (2005)) With the Supreme Court eviscerating the freedoms protected in the Constitution this week with its abandonment of the Founders’ intent in writing the Commerce Clause and Fifth Amendment, every protection becomes that much [...]

Social Security & Withholding, a Generational Transfer Scheme

Tuesday, March 8th, 2005
Constitution, big government, personal responsibility | No Comments »

Tuesday, March 08, 2005 Social Security & Withholding
It isn’t just the under-30s who are fed up with social security. Many of those of us under 40 feel the same way. Right now, I would be happy to just write-off all my previous social security “contributions” (wait, “contributions” are supposed to be voluntary, aren’t they?)