Republicans Have Opportunity To Change The Debate
Tweet by Charlie Harper The cries of “I told you so” are reaching critical mass from the right side of the political spectrum. Those who have been in opposition to President Obama since his 2008 campaign have been grasping at each and every perceived weakness to justify why he should not be President. The range [...]
Read More →Politics as usual means protection for large corporation
Tweet There’s a trick in politics for getting something to pass through without much hassle. You attach it to something relatively noncontroversial and then just be really, really quiet about it. That’s what happened with something opponents are calling the Monsanto Protection Act. It was hidden deep within the last continuing resolution. President Obama signed [...]
Read More →Republicans aim to take Keystone decision out of Obama’s hands
Tweet Written by Michael Bastasch of the Daily Caller News Foundation Washington – House Republicans have released a plan to fast-track the long delayed Keystone XL pipeline that would take the final decision out of the president’s hands.
Read More →Who Made Who?
Tweet Yes, Who Made Who? Sung by one of the greatest vocalist of my time, Brian Johnson of AC/DC. The song was released in 1986. A time when my driver’s license was freshly acquired, car windows down, volume as loud as the factory radio in my 1979 Ford Fiesta would blast it. In our youth [...]
Read More →Chambliss statement on the capture of Sulaiman Abu Ghayth
Tweet Special to the Journal WASHINGTON- Today, U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., vice chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, made the following statement regarding the capture of Sulaiman Abu Ghayth: “While I am pleased that Sulaiman Abu Ghayth has been captured and is facing long-overdue justice, I am concerned that once again [...]
Read More →Rand Paul’s historic stand shouldn’t have been needed
Tweet Some called it grandstanding. Me? I call it almost heroic. A lone senator stood for eight hours, blocking something that he was most likely planning on voting for (John Brennan’s appointment as CIA director), because of a deeper principle. He made a stands based not on party, but the simple concept of right and [...]
Read More →Rand Paul filibusters CIA nominee Brennan on drones
Tweet Written by W. James Antle III, Editor of the Daily Caller Foundation Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul launched a filibuster Wednesday against President Obama’s CIA nominee John Brennan as a way to highlight extrajudicial killings and the potential use of drones in the United States.
Read More →Graves Says Ending White House Tours Is ‘Shameless Political Stunt’
Tweet Special to the Journal Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Tom Graves (R-GA-14), member of the House Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement on President Obama’s decision to cancel all White House tours, which are self-guided, starting March 9:
Read More →Failed Leadership Becoming a Burning Legacy
Tweet I used to take pride in my ability to listen to arguments at all levels, look beyond the limiting bonds of a persons language and temperament and be able to distill their real views from postured bravado, manufactured anger, and the assumed right of the so called disenfranchised to carry a poly-generational rage against [...]
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