Showing posts with label US Congress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US Congress. Show all posts
Saturday, March 24, 2012

Obamacare Versus the U.S. Constitution

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By Alan Caruba In a nation where Congress has already determined how much water your toilet tank can hold and whether you can purchase a ...
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Monday, February 6, 2012

I'm Outta Here

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By Alan Caruba Those who follow politics more intently than I will no doubt be able to identify why, specifically, various incumbent Sen...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

How to Listen to Obama's State of the Union Speech

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By Alan Caruba The Tuesday morning post of the Heritage Foundation’s “Morning Bell” is worth sharing in part. You can read the whole post ...
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Saturday, December 31, 2011

How Not to Go Crazy in 2012

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By Alan Caruba Election years tend to create a level of frenzy concerning the selection of the nominees and the outcome. The media feed th...
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Saturday, December 24, 2011

The 2012 Check List for America's Survival

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By Alan Caruba Many people make resolutions to start the year, but I think a list of things that must be done to protect and preserve the...
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Saturday, November 19, 2011

System Failure on a Global Scale

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By Alan Caruba We are living in times when the structures involving the global financial system, national security, and self-governance a...
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

The Mormon Thing

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By Alan Caruba Article VI, U.S. Constitution: “…No religious test shall ever been required as a qualification to any office or public trus...
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Thursday, September 29, 2011

The Lawyers Rule

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By Alan Caruba If one looks back over the history of the members of Congress, the occupation that dominates is lawyers. It is reasonable ...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Disarming America's Military

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By Alan Caruba In the preamble of the Constitution, the founding fathers made clear their priorities and among them was “provide for the c...
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Saturday, September 24, 2011

The Financial Advice of Experts, Then and Now

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By Alan Caruba “I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism…I have every confidence that there wi...
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Sunday, August 7, 2011

Why the US Credit Rating Was Downgraded

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By Alan Caruba To begin with, the debt ceiling was lifted in part to hold onto our historic AAA rating of U.S. securities, but that didn’...
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Sunday, July 31, 2011

A Balanced Budget Amendment is No Panacea

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By Alan Caruba As this is being written, early Sunday evening, the House has passed Speaker Boehner’s legislation, rejected on arrival in ...
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Sunday, July 10, 2011

Scary American Stats

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By Alan Caruba Rasmussen Reports maintains a daily presidential tracking poll and, as of Sunday, July 10, President Obama’s Approval Index...
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

A Whiff of Secession and Nullification

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By Alan Caruba In May Rasmussen Reports took a survey of a thousand adults asking if they believed that States have the right to secede. ...
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Monday, April 4, 2011

The Fog of Numbers

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By Alan Caruba There are several reasons why Rep. Paul Ryan and his fellow Republicans in Congress want to cut four trillion dollars from...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

The Party's Over

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By Alan Caruba We all see the world through the prism of where we live. Most of us live in the cities and suburbs. From the early 1940s w...
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