Obama’s Tire Tax

35-Percent Tariff on Tires Imported from China

Everyone knows that labor unions were major supporters of President Obama’s campaign in the 2008 election and remain by his side on issues today. Many have implied gratuitous legislative paybacks would be inevitable once Obama was elected and settled into his Presidency. So on Friday, September, 11th, when [...]

Humana Received Cease and Desist Over Mailing

Humana Reprimanded Over Obama Health Care

Humana Medicare CMO, Philip Painter, M.D., sent out a mailing earlier this month to some of its 1.5 million members enrolled in the Humana Medicare Advantage (MA) program informing them of the possible reduction of benefits should one of the Democrats’ health care reform bills pass. The mailing informed its [...]

S2028: Massachusetts Flu Pandemic Bill

Massachusetts Senate Passes Orwellian Bill
Benjamen Franklin once stated, "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."  Having lived during a time when freedom and liberty were not guaranteed and often were settled on the battlefield, one can only imagine the forethought Franklin called upon when [...]

Financial Crisis Commission Holds First Meeting

Commission to Investigate Cause of Economic Crisis
In an effort to investigate the causes of the recent economic crisis, both domestic and global, Johnny Isakson (R-GA) and Kent Conrad (D-ND) introduced legislation that would set up of a fact-finding Financial Crisis Commission. That legislation passed and was signed by President Obama in May ‘09. Senator Conrad [...]

Muslims Gather in Washington

On Sept. 25, tens of thousands of Muslims will gather on the west lawn of Capitol Hill for a prayer service. The chosen location for this outdoor mosque is the very site where presidents have been inaugurated since 1981, including last year’s Obama inauguration. Hassen Abdellah, one of the main organizers of the event and [...]

Dems Continue Self-Congratulatory Signage

S. Amdt. 2361 to H.R. 3288
While the rest of us are watching our dimes, the Senate just voted to continue the use of stimulus funds for self-congratulatory signage promoting the spending of taxpayer dollars on stimulus projects. Sponsored by Senator Gregg, with eight other senators co-sponsoring, the section cited as "Axe the Stimulus Plaques Act" [...]

Baucus Bill Unveiled

Baucus Bill: America’s Healthy Future Act 2009
The highly-anticipated health care proposal authored by Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-MT) has officially been unveiled. Titled "America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009," this 223-page proposal is presented in the form of a chairman’s mark and carries a price tag, in its current form, of $856 billion. [...]

Czar Resolution: H.CON.RES.185

GOP Calls for CZAR Transparency
On September, 15th, 2009, along with 93 original cosponsors, Republican Representative Marsha Blackburn of the 7th District of Tennessee has introduced H. Con Res. 185 questioning the Constitutional requirements of Czar appointments. As stated by Blackburn, "All Presidents have a right to staff their administration as they see fit within the [...]

Amendment 2355: Halt ACORN Funding Passes Senate

SUMMARY "Mr. President, the people of Nebraska sent me to Washington to protect them from waste and fraud and abuse, and they asked me to change the status quo. And I take that responsibility very seriously. That is why my amendment would prohibit one more penny, one more penny of taxpayer money from going to [...]

Full Federal Reserve Audit Needed: HR1207 and S604

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. — Henry Ford
Read the Small Print
Pull out your billfold and take a look at a bill of any denomination and notice inscribed across the [...]

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