We are inundated on what seems like a daily basis with information and proposals on the illegal immigration problem. And it is huge a mess. Annually, illegal immigrants cost taxpayers over $100 billion with no end in site. While Congress kicks that one around like the political football it’s become, few are paying attention to the other immigration problem occurring within our borders. That one makes our territorial boundary woes look almost penny ante by comparison. While this…
Barack Obama released his proposed 2012 budget on Monday. It was not the Valentine many were hoping to get. The budget’s spending figure of $3.73 trillion includes $1.1 trillion, or more than 29%, in deficit dollars. Apparently, the flowery promises of budget cutting our way to fiscal health have died on the President’s lips. He did propose $1.1 trillion in total reductions over the next 10 years. But, that isn’t even peanuts. The combined deficits in just…
The nine-day old turmoil in Egypt shows no sign of letting up despite Hosni Mubarak’s assurances that he will step down in September. His pledge to forego his pro forma re-election as Egypt’s President is part of an effort to take the momentum away from the burgeoning opposition. The U.S. urges the move mainly because it does not want Egypt to end up like Iran after the last Shah. Iran’s staunch support of the U.S. went the way of…
The tragedy in Tucson eleven days ago spawned a national debate over whether certain types of political expression incite violence and should, therefore, be banned. Congressman Robert Brady, D-Pa, lead proponent of the ban, identifies a Sarah Palin map of the U.S. as the calamity’s trigger. Opponents charge Brady with political opportunism at its rankest, especially since the investigation was barely underway when the Congressman launched his verbal assault. In the days since Brady’s allegation, not a single…
The main focus of concern in our ginormous fiscal mess is the federal debt, which grows by the second. Tick tock. But, a looming crisis makes the nation’s deep red ink look almost black by comparison. The financial fall of some of our fifty states is just around the corner. If the Feds do anything to help that includes giving more money away, its own solvency picture gets a whole lot uglier. So, rather than a bailout, the Feds…
With the 112th Congress set to convene on January 5, one of the first targets of the new Republican House majority is Obamacare. Of the measures enacted in the past two years, the government’s expansive foray into the nation’s healthcare industry is the single most vilified. Is the President’s healthcare initiative about to take a nasty slip and fall over its own provisions and costs, never to rise again? If it does, is there, or should there be, a…
