U.S. President Barack Obama will not attempt to impose a controversial new health care mandate that attempted to make religious organizations to pay for contraceptives, abortion inducing drugs and sterilization treatment. "Under the rule, women will still have access to free preventive care that includes
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Like everything else the federal government touches, America's education system has turned into an unmitigated (and increasingly costly) disaster for students, parents and taxpayers alike in recent decades. America is falling further behind the rest of the world in other countries, while the taxpayer
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Dear Editor, Here are a pair of insightful glimpses into the ground conditions in Afghanistan. For those of you who have been there, you will no doubt recognize that each contains at least some truth. Many members of the public at large, however, will not. The first is the companion piece to
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The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to uphold a lower court ruling voiding Proposition 8 - the 2008 California ballot amendment that outlawed gay marriage in the Golden State. "Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays
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By Howard Rich || Klaus Schwab, a German academic and founder of the World Economic Forum, recently proclaimed the death of capitalism as we know it — a curious critique coming from the head of an organization whose motto finds "entrepreneurship is in the global public interest." "Capitalism, in
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Legendary actor/ director (and professed "Republican") Clint Eastwood appeared in a two-minute advertisement during halftime of Super Bowl XLVI declaring that it was "halftime in America, too" and that our nation need only look to Detroit as a road map for restoring its fortunes. Really? "It's
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The American economy posted solid employment gains in January, although worries persist about the extent and the sustainability of the nation's belated "recovery,"cloud the long-term employment picture. Nonetheless, the U.S. economy created 243,000 jobs last month according to statistics released
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"Can we all get along?" Apparently not ... not anymore. Not in America. Once an industrious land of innovation and self-determination, the United States has deteriorated rapidly into a nation of lazy, entitled leeches. And yes ... we're referring every bit as much to the thuggish union boss in
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After shedding more than 1.4 million workers between 2008 and 2010, union membership held steady in 2011 - although the percentage of the American workforce that's unionized edged down again. A total of 14.7 million workers - or 11.8 percent of the nation's workforce - were unionized last year, according
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Okay ... that headline is an admittedly false pretense, but let's be real. Isn't our job as unaccountable bloggers to provide juvenile oversimplifications of current events in order to assist global spread of attention deficit disorder? Exactly ... and we take our "tip of the spear' role in the vanguard
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For the fourth consecutive year the federal government will spend at least $1 trillion that it does not have in 2012, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). How much deficit spending are we talking about? At least $1.1 trillion - which would bring the federal debt to a whopping $16.4
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has drawn some groans for his proposed doctrine of self-deportation, but it might not be such a bad idea after all. In fact if you're overly-critical of the federal government - you could be well on your way to losing your citizenship already. Consider the
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