Hillary: The Movie

Coming Soon to the Supreme Court: “Hillary: The Movie”
On September 9th the Supreme Court will rehear the case Citizens United vs Federal Election Commission, better known as the Hillary: The Movie case. The case revolves around the First Amendment right to free speech and the McCain-Feingold law restricting corporate campaign financing. Is the movie just a [...]

J.C. Watts–Lobbyist or Governor?

If you have read many of my articles about Washington politics, you will find it no secret that I have an innate distrust of lobbyists. Part of this stems from the fact that a lot of them are former members of Congress and are using the connections from their previous employment to enhance their lobbying [...]

Payday loans–The worst kind of credit

Okay, with a show of hands, I want to know how many of you have ever been guilty of needing cash in hand so badly that you have visited a payday loan establishment and took out a loan. Actually, I’m just kidding. No show of hands is necessary, but I do want to address what [...]

Lobbyists in the White House

Honestly, I have held off writing about this topic because I do not want to come off as being too critical of President Obama. If you look at some of my previous posts about him, you will understand that even though I did not vote for him and do not agree with some of his [...]

Lobbyists look for earmarks in Obama stimulus package

During his campaign for the Presidency, Barack Obama made it a point to stay away from lobbyists and made a promise to at least limit earmark spending in Washington. As he began the push to get his economic stimulus package through Congress, he declared it would have no earmark spending. It appears that despite his [...]

Obama and budget cuts–where will he start?

During his campaign for President, Barack Obama made it very clear that he intended to go through the federal budget and remove wasteful spending items, doing it line by line. It was a very big part of his campaign rhetoric and now that he has won the election and is preparing to take the oath [...]

As social conservatives, what do we do?

If you have read my recent articles, you will have realized by now, I am not crazy about John McCain. Since Mike Huckabee has dropped out of the race, we really do not have a candidate who represents us and our positions on the issues, as social conservatives. For years, we have been [...]

Did John McCain sell his influence as a Senator?

Last week, when The New York Times published their article about John McCain and Vicki Iseman, the focus was strictly on the possible romantic involvement between the Senator and the lobbyist.  Since then, myself and other bloggers, as well as several newspapers have tried to show that the focus should not be on the possible [...]

The real John McCain story

Yesterday, The New York Times published a story about John McCain’s “relationship” with a beautiful lobbyist, Vicki Iseman.  They have tried to draw a picture of romantic involvement between the two and the McCain campaign has wholeheartedly denied that anything of the kind went on.  There are questions as to the timing of the story [...]