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With the recent budget battles and threat of government shutdown, you would think that the President’s party would want to be level-headed compared with their Republican competition. Once again, Democrats snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Harry Reid stated that cutting $61 billion from this year’s $3 trillion-plus budget was “extreme”. Really? Considering that most American’s have had to cut much more than three percent from their budgets, it’s not so... Read More→

Many constitutional conservatives originally suggested the idea of a national primary day, back in 2008. This idea seemed to stand in sharp contrast to the Democrat’s undemocratic system of proportional delegates and superdelegates. We Republicans seem to like the winner-take-all system, mostly. The idea was meant to quickly decide our candidate, so we can spend more time and money beating the Democrats in general election races. Perhaps, this idea needs to be resurrected again. Back in... Read More→

The non-partisan Government Accountability Office recently released a report detailing how the federal government wastes HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars. This results from the duplication and inefficiencies across the vast wasteland of government bureaucracy. “So what?”, you may ask… How about $200 billion over ten years by consolidating data centers across all agencies? How about $62.5 billion across 18 food assistance programs? How about $2.9 billion across programs designed... Read More→

Here’s a short but sweet blog for a Friday night…Obama wants to emulate Ronald Reagan’s success in the 1984 elections. He’s hoping to ride a new economic expansion to a second term. There are many problems with this “hope”. First of all, we have a pending, but huge inflation problem on the horizon – Reagan had rapidly declining inflation. Second, taxes were dramatically cut in 1982, whereas taxes are increasing now to Jimmy Carter-era levels. Third, we... Read More→

At first, it is easy to be enraged by the radically left elements of the Democrats. It’s also easy to be amazed at how unapologetically far-left unions and their supports have been at rallies in the Midwest. It’s almost as if they are socialist and don’t care what the rest of the country thinks. You may think, “can they really be THAT myopic?”. Well, yes they can. I was stymied at first, then came to realize the union protests are a political Godsend. We have an... Read More→

Just when you thought liberals couldn’t shift further to the left, well, they just did it again. Teacher’s unions have loudly protested even minimal contribution requirements to retirement and health care plans. Obama called the Republican sponsored plan to limit collective bargaining rights on contribution limits an “assault on unions”. Teachers refused to show up for work, and get this – so did the Democratic legislators that were supposed to vote on the proposal.... Read More→

Fox News has reported that the President’s deficit reduction calculations fail to include interest on the national debt. White House budget staff members, who have been testifying before Congress, are focusing on “principal balances”. Feisty Republicans and the Obama Administration are using “credit card” analogies to describe and defend their positions. Obama indicated that by focusing on the “principal balaces” in the budget, it will help determine what... Read More→

The official budget for the US government’s 2012 fiscal year has been released to the general public. Obama claims that some “painful choices” had to be made. Republicans, meanwhile, were simply asking the President to follow recommendations of his own deficit and debt reduction panel, mainly composed of Democrats. Instead, Obama provided plenty of pork barrel spending. Also, he was not willing to begin scaling down Medicare and Social Security for future generations, against... Read More→

As an individual who works for a very large financial institution, I can appreciate the burdens of excessive government regulation. Sure we need to have some regulation in place to prevent egregious abuses, but when regulation of commercial activity in the United States numbers in the MILLIONS of pages, economic growth is stifled. Obama recently told many executives from our largest corporations that the regulations that exist and that he has added are “good” for the recovering economy... Read More→

How is Wal-Mart a relevant political issue for us? It’s an issue when far-left groups seek to prevent it’s opening in otherwise low-income neighborhoods. It’s also an issue when liberal unions are keeping out employers who would otherwise create jobs. Rumors are circulating that Wal-Mart is looking to open a two-floor, 180,000 sq. ft. Supercenter in a brownfield, retail redevelopment complex in Brooklyn’s East New York neighborhood. This area has a high concentration of... Read More→