Posts Tagged ‘politics’
William Penn’s City of Brotherly Love — American Minute
American Minute with Bill Federer 26-year-old William Penn received from King Charles II the charter to Pennsylvania on MARCH 10, 1681, as repayment of a debt owed to his deceased father Admiral Sir William Penn, who captured Jamaica and defeated the Dutch navy. A student at Oxford, William Penn was expelled for having his own prayer [...]
Climate Wars! — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba Wars come and go, cities are destroyed and rebuilt, monuments are erected, and life goes on. This is the traditional view of war, but right now the world is engaged in the latest battle of a “climate war” that has been going on since the 1970s when the Club of Rome concluded in a report titled, “The real enemy then, is [...]
Fired Drunk Police Chief Claims Alcoholism Disability
Liberty Alerts, Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In one of the most innovative legal arguments presented to defend the transgressions of a public official, a police chief fired for crashing while driving drunk claims to be the victim of disability discrimination based on his alcoholism. The case involves the one-time police chief [...]
Defy Terrorism Sanctions, Get Rewarded
Liberty Alerts, Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In a troubling story that defies logic, companies that violate U.S. sanctions by doing business with a terrorist Middle Eastern nation have been rewarded with tens of billions of dollars in government contracts despite their repeated offenses. The federal government has awarded more [...]
Better Proposals for Health Care — Phyllis Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly President Obama declared in his State of the Union Address: "If anyone from either party has a better approach . . . let me know! I am eager to see it." Well, Mr. President, Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann does have better health care proposals, and most of her suggestions are contained in various bills that have been [...]
In Search of Historical Absolutes — Steve Farrell
by Steve Farrell I believe in absolutes, religious absolutes, moral absolutes, scientific absolutes (that is, useful bits and pieces of still hidden, more fundamental, scientific absolutes), political absolutes, and historical absolutes. But I've also learned through 33 years of research that the more I know, the less I know. That is not to [...]
Mr. Smith Award Daily: On the ‘Nobility’ of Political Self-Interest — David Limbaugh — Mr. Smith Award
Mr. Smith Award Daily, David Limbaugh President Barack Obama obviously has no qualms about slandering people or industries that interfere with his agenda. In the same creepy manner he defamed the Cambridge Police Department without benefit of the facts, he is scapegoating the insurance companies based on his distorted version of facts. In [...]
John Ericsson: Serving God & Country Is Pay Enough — American Minute
American Minute with Bill Federer The Confederate iron-plated ship Merrimac destroyed two Union boats during the Civil War. The Union responded with the ironclad Monitor. Dedicating a statue to the Monitor's designer, John Ericsson, May 29, 1926, President Calvin Coolidge stated: When the ironclad Merrimac went out on the morning of MARCH [...]
Arne Duncan’s First Report Card
Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum, Education Reporter With an unprecedented $100 billion in federal education funding to dole out, and a strong ally in President Obama, it would have been difficult for Arne Duncan not to make a significant impact during his first year as Secretary of Education. His Race to the Top (RTT) grant competition spurred a [...]
Did Locke Really Justify Limited Government? — Joseph R. Stromberg
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, Joseph R. Stromber John Locke (1632–1704) was a physician, statesman, and political philosopher, filling that last office in a dry, “empirical,” and militantly antipoetic English mode. Locke’s stock has risen and fallen over the years. Contemporaries called him a Socinian (a precursor of Unitarianism), [...]
