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Ben Carson at CPAC: We Must Hold Their Feet to the Fire
Just a short three weeks ago few Americans had heard the name Ben Carson. Those who did generally knew of…
Read More »New Highs for Stocks Belie Underlying Economic Weakness
As the stock market has been advancing into all-time high territory this week, many Americans are wondering how the economy…
Read More »Even Michelle Obama Vulnerable to Hacking
This week my mother was talking about ID theft. Several of her friends had their credit card information stolen and…
Read More »Dear Hostess Workers, How’s that Job Search Coming?
The buyout firms Apollo Global Management, LLC and Metropoulos & Co. have agreed to purchase the Hostess and Dolly Madison…
Read More »Nanny B’s Soda Ban Struck Down!
Super-Sized Soda drinkers across New York City breathed a sigh of relief Monday when Mayor Bloomberg’s large size soda ban…
Read More »Rebuttal of Jim Lacey’s ignorant garbage
The National Establishment Review has just published an utterly ridiculous screed by Jim Lacey (“Why Armies Matter”), in which Lacey…
Read More »Even NBC Sees Sequestration Bias
You know it’s bad when even the left leaning NBC Nightly News spends time criticizing this administration’s choice of cuts…
Read More »Rebuttal of the “sequestration is just a spending growth rate cut” lie
Ever since the sequester’s inception in August 2011 under the Budget Control Act, many ignorant people, including many anti-defense hacks…
Read More »Rebuttal of William Hartung’s lies about defense spending and US defense needs
In a recent (Feb. 22nd) opinion piece for CNN’s website, liberal anti-defense hack William Hartung of the George-Soros-funded “New America…
Read More »Rebuttal of CATO’s pseudo-“truth” about sequestration
As a leftist libertarian, anti-defense organization founded in 1977 by the anarcho-libertarian Murray Rothbard (who believed the US was solely…
Read More »Obama: I was FOR Sequestration Before I was AGAINST it.
Remember this? In 2011 President Obama threatened to veto any attempt by Republicans to change the Sequestration cuts. But last…
Read More »Optimizing Your Dollar—A Well-Stocked Pantry
This week our dollar stretching idea looks at the well-stocked pantry. Quick and easy to prepare meals mean less temptation…
Read More »“Taxpayers for Common Sense” and CAGW caught lying to the Congress
Two pseudo-conservative groups’ presidents, Ryan Alexander of “Taxpayers for Common Sense” and Thomas Schatz of Citizens Against Government Waste, lied…
Read More »Rebuttal of the “we can cut defense spending deeply at no cost to security” notion
In a recent 3-minute video, Christopher Preble of the CATO Institute falsely claimed that the US could “spending considerably less…
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