via: facebook What it means to be a proud American is the great work we have accomplished in this country. By bringing freedom to us and other counties around the world. Also to show the world we Americans don’t see people by race, religion or by gender or groups as well. Instead we see ourselves [...]
Archive for April, 2009
23 Apr
Questions for Secretary Napolitano: E-Verify
via: Heritage HS Secretary Janet Napolitano is tentatively scheduled to testify before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee about DHS immigration enforcement policies on May 6, 2009. Given Secretary Napolitano’s novel interpretations of federal law, the Heritage Foundation will be posting a serious of questions (and suggested answers) for the Secretary. Questions for Napolitano # [...]
23 Apr
Release the Memos
via: Heritage When he decided to release selected and redacted documents on terrorist interrogation used by the CIA after 9/11, President Barack Obama said “we should be looking forward and not backwards.” It is impossible to tell whether this statement was calculated or just naive, however, the political firestorm the document release has created is [...]
23 Apr
Two Decades of Investment on Display
via: Heritage This week, China celebrated the 60th anniversary of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) with a large military parade to display to the world how far the PLAN has come and where it intends to go. The scope of China’s military advancements in recent decades was summarized well in the Pentagon’s new 2009 [...]
23 Apr
Independent Commission Win
via: Heritage Since October Heritage has been writing about the need for an Independent Financial Markets Commission to look into causes and remedies of the market crisis. Now, thanks to Senator Johnny Isakson, the idea has been approved by the U.S. Senate in a remarkable 92-4 vote. The independent voices, and independent inquiry, involved can [...]
23 Apr
The Impending Stimulus Oversight Failure
via: Heritage We’ve noted before that President Barack Obama $787 billion stimulus package will lead to billions in waste, overload federal and state agencies not staffed to accommodate Obama’s unprecedented explosion of spending, and that Obama’s claims of job creation (or salvation) numbers are so vague that proper accountability is almost impossible. Testimony from acting [...]
23 Apr
Jon Stewart: Socialism is Awesome
Last night’s agenda on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart was: Socialism is awesome! As more and more Americans worry about the growth of government in their lives here in the U.S., the Daily Show travelled to Sweden to put those worries to rest. They wanted to show us that we should embrace Socialism [...]
23 Apr
Seizure Plan Seizes Up: Frank Delays Financial Institution Receivership Plan
via: Heritage The Obama Administration tried to portray the plan as no big deal, akin to simply filling in a loophole. The idea was to provide the FDIC with authority to seize failing “non–banK” financial institutions such as holding companies, insurance firms and hedge funds, similar to the powers they already have to take over [...]
23 Apr
How Lisa Jackson Stole $11,000 from Every American Household
via: Heritage As we reported this morning, EPA administrator Lisa Jackson was forced to admit she had not even read the Waxman-Markey carbon taxing bill before her agency released a report claiming the economic impact of cap and trade legislation would be “modest.” Asked how the EPA could produce a report on a bill they [...]
23 Apr
The Public Health Plan “Trojan Horse”
via: Heritage Former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary and Utah Gov. Michael Leavitt warned yesterday that a public health insurance option in any comprehensive health reform would be the “Trojan horse” that would force Americans into a single-payer health system. Proponents for a public health insurance plan, which has been suggested to be modeled [...]
