We could fix this so easily. I know business travelers have little choice, but if every recreational traveler stayed home for 1 week Congress would sweep the TSA (and God willing Homeland Security) aside the next week. A week is easy. We can do a week. We’ve done it before. That week got us the TSA and [...]
I see that the campaigner in chief has a website where you can send letters to the editor to support The Buffett Rule. I fully support The Buffett Rule and happily used their tool to have my voice heard. They supply a form letter, but you can write your own. I didn’t think their form [...]
The U.S. intelligence community will be able to store information about Americans with no ties to terrorism for up to five years under new Obama administration guidelines. Until now, the National Counterterrorism Center had to destroy immediately information about Americans that already was stored in other government databases when there were no clear ties to [...]
a Virginia middle school politics class today, in which an 8th grade teacher assigned students to do opposition research on the four Republican presidential candidates. The students’ research included looking into the backgrounds of the GOP candidates and finding weaknesses in their positions. Now, this kind of research wouldn’t be out of the norm for [...]
Read this article written by R. Gil Kerlikowske Director, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. This is how he describes people who abuse drugs: “After all, addiction is not a moral failing on the part of the individual — science shows that drug addiction is a disease of the brain that can be [...]
Today, Senators John Thune R-SD and David Vitter R-LA introduced legislation to recognize national reciprocity for gun owners who can legally carry concealed firearms in the state where they reside. via Gun Owners Of America. You clicks the link. You goes to the bottom of page. Take action. You go now.
“Justice Department blocks new law requiring Texas residents to present photo identification before buying firearms, boarding planes, entering federal buildings, buying Sudafed, citing concerns that it would restrict Hispanics.” via Fox News. Computer acting up. Copy/paste may have gotten jumbled up there.
Today, House Bill 2522 was given final passage in the House by an 85 to 9 vote and will now be sent to the state Senate for consideration. This bill, authored by state Representative Steve Martin (R-10), is an NRA-backed omnibus firearm bill which would make significant improvements to Oklahoma’s gun laws. via NRA-ILA Those [...]
Jennifer today and Borepatch a few days ago are on a similar train of thought. Here are my thoughts. There are virtually no limited government politicians. There are politicians who wouldn’t mind some parts of government smaller, and who definitely want other parts of government to be big and bigger. That applies to those in [...]
