One week ago today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act. Incredibly, the measure — which passed by a vote of 321-105 — prohibits participation as a volunteer by anyone involved in religious activities. Sec. 125 of the measure outlines ten separate types of activities in which a participant [...]
Entries from March 2009
‘GIVE’ Act Prohibits Volunteers of Faith
March 25th, 2009 · 11 Comments
Tags: · Atheists, Barack Obama, change, Gateway Pundit, generations invigorating volunteerism and education act, give act, government-sponsored service programs, hope, hope and change, House, House of Representatives, national service, Obama, president barack obama, proselytization, religious instruction, Senate, service programs, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, volunteer, volunteer service, worship, worship services
Poll: 73 Percent of Americans Think Members of Congress Should Return Contributions from AIG
March 25th, 2009 · No Comments
As President Barack Obama and Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) continue to point fingers over which one of them is to blame for the stimulus bill’s “Dodd Amendment,” which specifically excludes bonuses from caps on executive pay, one thing is clear: both Obama and Dodd profited from AIG campaign “bonuses” and an overwhelming majority of Americans [...]
Tags: · aig, aig bonuses, Barack Obama, center for responsive politics, Chris Dodd, Congress, dodd amendment, federal income tax liability, income tax, John Kerry, max baucus, Obama, president barack obama, president obama, Sen. Chris Dodd, Sen. John Kerry, sen. max baucus, senate finance committee, senator chris dodd, Senator Dodd, Senator John Kerry, senator max baucus, stimulus, the o'leary report, zogby international
China, Russia Opt Out of Printing Obama Op-Ed (Updated)
March 24th, 2009 · No Comments
Though 30 newspapers around the globe today published President Barack Obama’s op-ed, “A time for global action,” no one should be surprised by the fact that newspapers in China and Russia did not. The decision by Chinese and Russian leaders to opt out of publishing President Obama’s call — dubbed a “rare simultaneous op-ed” in [...]
Tags: · a time for global action, Barack Obama, Bloomberg, China, china's central bank, chinese, council on foreign relations, dollar tumbles, Financial Times, g20, g20 meeting, imf, international monetary fund, international reserve currency, Kremlin, lack of faith, Moscow Times, new global system, Obama, obama op-ed, one-world currency, president barack obama, president obama, replace the collar, reserve currency, Russia, Russian, supranational reserve currency, u.s. economy, White House, White House blog, world financial system, zhou xiachuan
Tea Party Anthem Singer to Appear on Greta (Update)
March 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
a UPDATE 3/24/09 at 8:22 a.m. Central: Lloyd Marcus is appearing on Fox News Channel’s America’s Newsroom NOW! Lloyd Marcus, the man behind the song, “American Tea Party,” sent me an e-mail a short while ago to let me know he will be appearing on Fox News Channel’s ON THE RECORD with Greta Van Susteren [...]
Tags: · american tea party, american tea party movement, anthem for the tea party movement, big dance, Fox, Fox News, Fox News Channel, greta, greta van susteren, lloyd marcus, NCAA, ncaa men's basketball tournament, on the record, on the record with greta van susteren, tea party, tea party movement, tea party movement anthem
Great Idea, Neil Cavuto!
March 23rd, 2009 · 4 Comments
Fox News Channel’s Neil Cavuto closed the Monday afternoon edition of his program, Your World with Neil Cavuto, with an excellent idea paraphrased below: He said we need to take back 90 percent of the money we’ve given to them, because they’ve proven they don’t know how to do their jobs, have done their jobs [...]
Tags: · 111th congress, 90 percent, aig, Congress, Fox, Fox News, Fox News Channel, insurance giant, insurance giant aig, neil cavuto, your world, your world with neil cavuto
Is Madoff More Trustworthy Than Geithner?
March 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
Should Timothy Geithner resign? Nearly half of respondents to an online poll conducted by the Guardian said they would trust Bernie Madoff with their money before they would trust President Barack Obama’s embattled treasury secretary. The poll — which, as of this posting, was still running — offers two answers from which readers can choose [...]
Tags: · bailout, bailout funding, Barack Obama, bernie madoff, bernie's bighouse, financial industry, geithner, Guardian, madoff, Obama, political graffiti, Poll, president barack obama, rasmussen, rasmussen reports, secretary of the treasury, timothy geithner, treasury secretary
Long-Awaited Fox News Article Goes to Press
March 23rd, 2009 · 4 Comments
Five days ago, a Missouri law enforcement agency’s confidential report about the so-called “Modern Militia Movement” inspired me to publish a post, Yikes, I Might Be Part of the Militia Movement! (Third Update). Soon after, that post caught the eye of Joshua Rhett Miller, a news editor at FoxNews.com. He interviewed me over the phone [...]
Tags: · 'Fusion Centers' Expand Criteria to Identify Militia Members, ACLU, Bob Barr, Constitution Party, Fox, Fox News, FoxNews.com, fusion centers, josh miller, joshua rhett miller, Libertarian Party, miac, miac report, militia, militia movement, Missouri, modern militia movement, political thought, Ron Paul
