Sen. Reid just filed cloture on the motion to proceed to HR 3590, the Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act. Remember he is using HR 3590 as a âshellâ to offer his 2,074 page health bill as a substitute amendment. The [...]


Substitute âUS Governmentâ for Obama and the Democrats, and you get the truth as Bloomberg reports that Emerson Electric, the massive $21 billion [...]

As our erstwhile colleague and member of the MDGOP Central Committee Mike Schwartz has reported, the effort to replace outging MDGOP Chair Dr. Jim Pelura is focusing on one candidate, Audrey Scott. With Chris Cavey nobly dropping out to avoid a contested fight for the chairman job, it begins [...]
I got this from a pro-single payer organization. Remember: What does single payer mean? One Choice and one choice only. And remember my article from yesterdayâŚ
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By Ellen Sauerbrey
After months of work by Senate Committees, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid stepped up to the microphone and pronounced that in his opinion ââthe best way to move forward is to include a public option with the opt-out provision for states.â Though there is little understanding of [...]
CNNâs Ratings Falling Faster than Obamaâs
CNN, which pioneered cable news, now rates dead last among cable news networks. Prime time ratings are down 68 percent since last [...]
This is why you lose elections.
GOP officials: We wonât abandon Dede
The National Republican Congressional Committee remains committed to embattled GOP nominee Dede Scozzafava in the upstate New York House special election, even as many of the partyâs top names [...]
By Todd D. Lamb of Maryland Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse
Thomas Jefferson described our citizen jury system as âthe only anchor ever yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.â Jury service is an essential act of citizenship and a [...]
Bookies are making bets on whether some version of ObamaCare will pass this year, but with five bills floating around, there is no betting on what it will look like.
The threat of a "public option" has generated the hottest protest with voters [...]
Apparently the NAACP practices the very thing it protests against. Can you imagine what the outcry would be if we said the same thing? These people should be ashamed of themselves, but they [...]
My husband retired from IBM about a decade ago, and as we aren't old enough for Medicare we still buy our health insurance through the company. But' [...]
by Ellen Sauerbrey
The Obama administration is moving with lightning speed to destroy the private sector and create a new kind of citizen-serf that must look to the government to meet ever more basic needs. Government takeovers started in earnest a year ago with the seizure of Fannie Mae and Freddie [...]
Hey, remember back when Martin O'Malley was running for Governor back in 2006 and he talked about giving up his side gig in a crappy band in order to focus on his day job. Well, neither does he:From: (Removed)
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By Ellen Sauerbrey
Excuse me. Is this the former Soviet Union or the United States of America? A blatant effort by the powerful in government to censor speech with which they disagree makes one wonder what country we live in today. Every day seems to raise another challenge [...]
Webster defines dissent as: to differ in opinion⌠to disagree. This implies that one has an opinion. Dissent can be effectively stifled by keeping people too ignorant to form opinions, frightening them into silence or shutting down the means to express dissent.
The mass media that should keep the [...]
Legislators are not ruling out increases in so-called [...]

P. Kenneth Burns
September 2, 2005âŚNBC is airing a special fundraiser for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. For the record, a situation that would not have happened because of a bipartisan screw-up going back for decades, but it is what it is. Actor Mike Myers of âWayneâs Worldâ and [...]
I'm as Mad as Hell, and I'm Not Gonna Take This Anymore!' This sentiment is being voiced by protesters turning out for Tea Parties and Health Care Town Hall Meetings around the country.People are angry and frightened by the prospect of government running their health care system, but their anger' [...]
By Todd D. Lamb, executive director-Maryland Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse
As lawmakers continue to debate overhauling our nationâs health care system â legal reform continues to be absent from the discussion. Want to know why Congress isnât including legal reform in the health care debate? See for yourself [...]
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