FROM THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUE
BY Ivan Eland
The Pentagon has long had a conflict of interest. The Department of Defense builds the weapons of war (albeit in a grossly inefficient manner using a captive defense industry that is a ward of the state). Yet the department also supervises and funds 85 percent of the intelligence effort to […]

The long term goal of America’s far left intellectuals has finally been achieved. Their goal, to begin the establishment of a cradle to grave socialist state in America took only nine decades to accomplish. The most significant actions occurred in the 1960’s, although the ideas actually began with the Russian Revolution.
That event was […]

MSNBC-Sen. Hillary Clinton has declined to return $170,000 in campaign contributions from individuals at a company accused of widespread sexual harassment, and whose CEO is a disbarred lawyer with a criminal record, federal campaign records show.
The federal government has accused the Illinois management consulting firm, International Profit Associates, or IPA, of a brazen pattern of […]

I 100% agree with this post I saw on the Peach Pundit.
By Chris Farris
I received an email a few days ago, and the tactlessness of it has been bothering me for quite awhile. First there is the use of the racial slur. Then there is the message is that it is somehow bad or […]

Obama’s response: “We’ve seen these ads before. They’re the kind that play on peoples’ fears to scare up votes… We’ve had a red phone moment. It was the decision to invade Iraq. And Senator Clinton gave the wrong answer. George Bush gave the wrong answer. John McCain gave the wrong answer.”

“I think the thing that inspires me most about Barack Obama is that he really is going to be the president of the United States. He’s not going to be the president of the top ten percent, or the president of the most powerful corporations, or the president of the most powerful lobbyists. He’s gonna […]

GREAT VIDEO!!!

I told you so…. What will DEMS do?
HP-Democrats may soon be taking a tougher public position on immigration, according to a confidential study put together by key think tanks close to the party leadership.
The study urges Democrats to adopt more rigid rhetoric when discussing immigration by encouraging office-holders to emphasize “requiring immigrants to become legal” […]

FROM THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUE
BY Ivan Eland
History will probably show George W. Bush to have been a bold president, ready to gamble his legacy at a moment’s notice. Some risk-taking has paid off for him and other rolls of the dice haven’t.
Even in instances where Bush’s chutzpah got results, the policy goals obtained were disastrous […]

Richards’ sons object to Clinton video
SPI-The two sons of Ann Richards, the late former Texas governor, are objecting to an Internet video published by Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign that suggests their mother would have supported Clinton.
Clinton’s campaign had permission from Richards’ youngest daughter, Ellen, who said in a statement provided by the campaign that […]

In case Hillary is watching, The Daily Show is comedy not hard news!
HP-Last night on “The Daily Show,” Samantha Bee satirized the media’s grand “plan” to destroy the candidacy of Hillary Clinton. “We’re at debate 20, and I think everyone here is a bit disappointed that it took Senator Clinton this long to catch on […]

Who is right?
MSN- President Bush said Thursday the country is not recession-bound and, despite expressing concern about slowing economic growth, rejected for now any additional stimulus efforts. “We acted robustly,” he said.
“We’ll see the effects of this pro-growth package,” Bush told reporters at a White House news conference, acknowledging that some lawmakers already are […]

This tell-us-something-we-don’t-already-know story from The Australian:
THE Iraq war has cost the US 50-60 times more than the Bush administration predicted and was a central cause of the sub-prime banking crisis threatening the world economy, according to Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz. The former World Bank vice-president yesterday said the war had, so far, cost […]

George Will column exposes more McCain campaign funding problems….what goes around, comes around.  Nobody and I mean nobody deserves to go broke during this campaign season more than John McCain…read on—> 
Townhall — WASHINGTON - Certain kinds of conservatives, distrusting Richard Nixon’s ideological elasticity, rejected him — until 1973. Although it had become clear his administration was a crime […]