Issues Congress Should Tackle
Oh, How America Has Changed
Illegitimate births for all Americans have risen from 26 percent in 1990 to 41 percent today “and could be headed higher.”
Continue reading →Debt Ceiling Up, S&P Rating Down
We should reduce federal spending back to the level of the day Obama took office; most people don’t realize how much he increased spending in his first two years.
Continue reading →Get Government Out of Our House
If Congress can’t repeal the law that banishes the Edison light bulb and forces us to buy Chinese-made bulbs we don’t like, voters will ask, what was the use in electing a Republican House?
Continue reading →Scandals in the Classroom
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal released a 413-page report describing how hundreds of Atlanta public school teachers and principals had been cheating during the past ten years on standardized tests in order to falsely report that their schools were doing a good job and the kids were improving.
Continue reading →Scandals in the Classroom
A national scandal hit the news when Georgia Governor Nathan Deal released a 413-page report describing how hundreds of Atlanta public school teachers and principals had been cheating during the past ten years on standardized tests in order to falsely report that their schools were doing a good job and the kids were improving.
Continue reading →Time to Say Goodbye to the WTO
The World Trade Organization just ruled against the United States again. A “dispute resolution panel” of WTO representatives from Pakistan, Portugal and Switzerland ruled that U.S. laws requiring Country Of Origin Labeling (COOL) violate free trade.
Continue reading →States Confront Illegal Alien Problems
E-Verify, a computer process that makes it fast and easy for employers to check the validity of employees’ Social Security numbers to ascertain if they are legal, was created by Congress as a voluntary system.
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Lamar Smith’s E-Verify Bill Must Be Amended
E-Verify, a computer process that makes it fast and easy for employers to check the validity of employees’ Social Security numbers to ascertain if they are legal, was created by Congress as a voluntary system. It demonstrates its utility by verifying individuals within a few seconds with 99.5 percent accuracy, but only about two percent of businesses actually use it.
Continue reading →Libya and the War Powers Act
One of the reasons leftwingers voted for Barack Obama for President in 2008 was that they opposed the war in Iraq. The anti-war left is disappointed that Obama continued the Iraq war, escalated Afghanistan, and started a new war in Libya.
Continue reading →The Cost to Taxpayers of Missing Fathers
With Father’s Day coming up, we should ponder the sad plight of the 20 million American children who are growing up without their fathers in the home.
Continue reading →Unconstitutional Attack on U.S. Inventors
One of the most valuable individual rights guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution is the right of “inventors” to own “the exclusive right” to their “discoveries” for “limited times.”
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