White House spokesman Robert Gibbs seems to have forgotten that his boss has already broken his central campaign promise – a “firm pledge” that “no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of [...]
“Everyone is selling up the little they have and leaving,” said Villasenor, 31, who is headed for Pennsylvania. “We have no alternative. They have us cornered.”
The two women are among scores of illegal immigrant families across Phoenix hauling the contents of their homes into the yard this weekend as they rush to sell up and [...]
As the midterm election season approaches, new road signs are popping up everywhere – millions of dollars worth of signs touting “The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act” and reminding passers-by that the program is “Putting America Back to Work.”
A look at where the stimulus money is going.
On the road leading to Dulles Airport outside Washington, [...]
Besides raising the retirement age for full Social Security benefits to 70 for people now 50 or younger, Mr. Boehner suggested curbing benefit growth by tying cost-of-living increases to the consumer price index rather than growth in wages, and providing benefits only to those who need them.
“If you have substantial non-Social Security income while you're [...]
John Fund: The Obama-Pelosi Lame Duck Strategy – WSJ.com.
The rush to recess gives Democrats little time to pass any major laws. That’s why there have been signs in recent weeks that party leaders are planning an ambitious, lame-duck session to muscle through bills in December they don’t want to defend before November. [...]
Once again, unions across France are striking. I can sympathize with them in that our retirement age keeps on getting increased, but ours is due to the fact that our Congress has raided the fund to buy votes. I’m not sure about their system, but it seems from the information that I’ve read that the [...]
So how is this a bad thing?
Arizona’s tough new immigration enforcement law is fueling an exodus of Hispanics from the state seven weeks before it goes into effect, according to officials and residents in the state.
So the illegals, who by definition are criminals, are leaving and this is supposed to somehow be [...]
You’d think that as many drilling rigs as BP and others have that they would have planned for something like we are experiencing right now. It’s insane to put something like that out into the ocean and not have a plan for when, not if, something goes wrong. Not only does it do possibly irreparable [...]
Here’s something that hasn’t been covered in the MSM for obvious reasons, but needs to be brought into the light. From Blackfive:
But possibly the worst thing is that the National Security Strategy Obama was introducing resurrects the sovereignty stripping, military weakening, massive income redistributing Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). If you [...]
MEXICO CITY — Between 20 and 25 bodies were recovered from an abandoned silver mine in southern Mexico, apparently victims of drug gang violence, federal police commissioner Facundo Rosas said Sunday.
The corpses appear to have accumulated over an undetermined time as they were tossed over a 300-foot precipice into the abandoned mine, located [...]