The New York Times and other liberal media outlets are commencing an all out assault against House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King (R-NY) for his hearing today on the threat of radical Islam in America. Congressman King is taking a bold stand to shed light on how homegrown terror has become the top security threat […]
CU President David Bossie defends Rep. Peter King’s hearings into Islamic radicalism in America: The threat of homegrown terror is real, as the terrorist attack at Fort Hood, Texas vividly illustrated. Today the House Committee on Homeland Security, under the chairmanship of Congressman Peter King (R-NY), held a critically important hearing on “The Extent of […]
Senate Democrats claimed last week that they would cut $6.5 billion from the 2011 budget, which has still not even been passed yet. But last night, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report saying that the Senate Democrats’ plan was off by almost $2 billion and would actually only cut $4.7 billion. This error, […]
The threat of homegrown terror is real, as the terrorist attack at Fort Hood, Texas vividly illustrated. On March 10, the House Committee on Homeland Security, under the Chairmanship of Congressman Peter King (R-NY), will hold a critically important hearing on “The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community’s Response.” Predictably, […]
CU President David Bossie offers a solution to rein in the national debt: In the coming weeks, Congress will consider legislation to raise the debt ceiling. In fact, to actually call it a debt “ceiling” is one of the biggest frauds in the American political lexicon. As our government continues to spend without paying for […]
Guest post on Cagle regarding the budget gimmicks President Obama has been using: The numbers being floated around by President Obama and Congressional Democrats during this year’s budget battle are all spin and sleight of hand. Not that this should surprise anyone – the President has a history of using smoke and mirrors – especially […]
CU President David Bossie opines on the cultural roots of our current budget battle: The current economic crisis is not a failure of capitalism, but a failure of culture. Citizens United Productions’ film Generation Zero explores the cultural roots of the global financial meltdown – beginning with the narcissism of the 1960s which spread like […]
The Obama Administration is probably patting itself on the back with today’s unemployment report. The rate fell one tenth of a percent to 8.9%, and it is now below 9% for the first time since April of 2009. Hopefully, the jobs reports continue to get better, but let’s remember that President Obama said his stimulus […]
Florida District Judge Roger Vinson, who in January ruled Obamacare unconstitutional, today put the Obama Administration on notice that it needs to expedite its appeal to either the appellate court or the United States Supreme Court within seven days. This decision will force the Obama Administration to stop dragging its feet and put the wheels in […]
Congressman Patrick Meehan, a member of the Homeland Security Committee in the House of Representatives, said that the killing of two U.S. Airmen in Frankfurt, Germany today may have been a terrorist attack. The shooter reportedly said in Arabic, “God is Great,” before he started his attack on the Airmen. This act of terror is a sad […]
Michael Moore is at it again. His latest rant is about the wealthy in America: “They’re sitting on the money, they’re using it for their own — they’re putting it someplace else with no interest in helping you with your life, with that money. We’ve allowed them to take that. That’s not theirs, that’s a […]
A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released this morning spells out exactly why big government simply does not work. The GAO report highlights $200 billion in wasteful spending on redundant programs. A couple hundred billion here, a couple hundred billion there, pretty soon you’re talking about real money – namely our $14 trillion national debt! […]