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Cagle Post: Ten Years Later

The Tuesday morning of September 11, 2001 is a day still seared into my mind and heart. On that fateful morning – ten years ago on Sunday – the financial and military centers of our great nation were attacked by Islamic terrorists who wanted to destroy the freedoms that we all hold so dear. It […]

State of the Economy Address

First time jobless claims were again over 400,000 (at 409,000) last week. Second quarter productivity slid to 0.7 percent for the second quarter in a row. Tomorrow fresh unemployment numbers come out for the month of August and if I had a crystal ball I would predict they will probably remain over 9 percent. Next […]

The U.S. – U.N. Relationship Needs Reform

The United Nations is a broken mess that needs to be reformed now or its existence as a (somewhat) viable international institution will go the way of the Dodo bird. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen unveiled a U.N. reform bill earlier this week – the bill makes it clear to the U.N. that […]

Politico: Should disaster aid be conditional?

While the federal government should play a role in disaster relief, Congress has a responsibility to spend the taxpayers’ money wisely. Far too often Congress has issued blank checks in an emergency that are ripe for waste, fraud, and abuse. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the New York Times – of all publications – […]