After some initial waffling with a compromise to yank a photo ID requirement from a voter photo ID bill, Republicans have regained their senses and appear to be fully backing the legislation’s original intent. The House Election Committee voted Wednesday along straight party lines to advance legislation requiring NC voters to show at least one […]
Leave it to the IRS to figure out a loophole that allows the federal government to confiscate your money twice. That would seem to be the case with the agency’s plan on how to deal with healthcare scofflaws who decline to comply with Obamacare’s individual mandate. This from The Daily Caller: Individuals who don’t purchase […]
A new feature we’re working into the mix; it’s a dirty job, but somebody has to do it. The Quotes: “The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regard as the public good.” […]
Rep. Allen West (R-FL) got his first piece of legislation passed this week in the US House, where it sailed through with a 393-0 vote. That’s surprising, if only because commonsense usually finds a cold shoulder in Washington. In this case, it’s H.R. 1246, which will cut the Department of Defense printing budget by 10 […]
Just a friendly reminder that today would be an opportune time to call your local representatives and strongly encourage them to support Rep. Glen Bradley’s NC Constitutional Hard Tender Act. On April 5, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102, prohibiting the private ownership of gold and directing private citizens to turn their […]
By Sen. Rand Paul, naturally, who blisters President Obama with a scathing indictment of his handling of the war in Libya. This from The Hill: In a floor speech Wednesday, Paul introduced a motion to the Senate that would condemn Obama’s decision to attack military installations controlled by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi without authorization from […]
Well, that didn’t take long. Empowered with an overwhelming mandate from the people to govern with a rational, conservative bent, it’s taken the Republican majority in the NC General Assembly all of three months to scuttle the first semblance of rational conservatism. Not sure how else you can read the so-called compromise being pushed on […]
It was a gloomy day in Columbia, SC, but that didn’t dampen the spirits of FairTax supporters from across the state who came to witness the official launch of the South Carolina FairTax Act (H3993) in the State House of Representatives. Speaking to the media at a 2pm press conference were House Representative Bill Taylor […]
Ban cars from London and other major cities across Europe, under the pretext of what the UK Telegraph tags as “a draconian EU masterplan.” The European Commission on Monday unveiled a “single European transport area” aimed at enforcing “a profound shift in transport patterns for passengers” by 2050. The plan also envisages an end to […]
Or in the case of our absentee-landlord president, dancing the samba in Brazil while launching a hundred or so Tomahawk missiles on Libya. But, hey, he cut the trip short a whole two hours to focus on the war. Sacrifice. Leadership. This from CNSNews: As his trip to Latin America winds up in El Salvador […]
