Public-financed campaigns

Is there anyone here who hasn’t felt overwhelmed by the amount of money spent on political campaigns? I don’t know about you, but I have bemoaned for years, the fact that it seems to take so much money to even think about being competitive in a national election. It doesn’t matter if we are talking [...]

An open and honest Congress

Over the last several days, I have written a couple of articles that spoke of possible Republican gains in Congress in the mid-term elections in November. As conservatives and Republicans, there are a lot of us who hope that happens. Part of that hope rises from our desire to see Congress operate a bit differently [...]

Coming soon, more stimulus spending from Congress

MORE SPENDING=ECONOMIC STIMULUS=JOBS CREATION
I sometimes wonder if the equation above actually does what the big spenders want us to believe. Since sometime in 2008, we have seen an unprecedented amount of money spent on stimulating our economy. It started under George W. Bush and it has only gotten bigger and more expensive since Barack Obama [...]

Olympia Snowe – Making Hard Decisions

On Tuesday Senator Olympia Snowe made a hard decision – she went against her party and voted in favor of the Senate Finance Committee legislation on health care reform. In her comments prior to the vote Snowe said, “…the consequences of inaction dictate the urgency of Congress to take every opportunity to demonstrate its capacity [...]

J.C. Watts may run for governor in Oklahoma

For several months now, there has been speculation that former Oklahoma Congressman J.C. Watts would be running for the Republican nominee for Oklahoma governor. Several people said it looked like he was in campaign mode when showed up at the Oklahoma Republican State Convention on April 18. From NewsOK:
“I’m just being open to listening to [...]

Rick Warren backslides on marriage

Pastor Rick Warren of the Saddleback Church in California has never been one to shy away from politics, the media, or the publicity that comes with it. In his now famous questioning of Barack Obama and John McCain at the Saddleback Forum, he asked both men the same series of questions that were designed to [...]

Inauguration Day–2009

As I write my usual morning article, it is on a day unlike any I have seen in my lifetime. I am only 46 years old, but I have lived through several Presidents and their inaugurations and I have never witnessed such excitement as I am seeing today. Driving into work this morning, I was [...]

Barack Obama–44th President of the United States

January 20, 2009
In a historic event  in Washington, D. C., Barack Obama has been sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. This moment caps a meteoric rise from community organizer in Chicago, IL and Illinois state Senator, to moving into the White House and taking the oath of office as our [...]

Pelosi and Obama differ on priorities

Even though Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is no doubt ecstatic that Barack Obama is about to be sworn in as our nation’s 44th President, there are signs that the two may differ sharply in some of their priorities. One of the main differences between the two are the Bush tax cuts. The first [...]

Senate gives Obama remaining $350 billion TARP money

As I suspected they would do, the United States Senate has just approved giving Barack Obama the remaining $350 billion of the TARP bailout money. As I mentioned in a previous article, I would have been very surprised if the approval had not passed. It appears our political leaders are determined to squeeze every penny [...]

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