All Blog Posts Tagged 'obama' (6)

Devaluing Our Currency: why you are paying $4.00 for a gallon of gas and $5.00 for a lb. of hamburger!

In trying to explain what the Federal Reserve and Ben Bernanke have been doing to our money I realized that 75% of the citizens of this Republic are uninformed to what Quantitative Easing is, well lets…

from the Associated Press (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA_DEFENSE_BILL):

Dec 31, 5:42 PM EST



Obama signs defense bill despite 'reservations'



By JULIE PACE

Associated Press



HONOLULU (AP) -- President Barack Obama signed a wide-ranging defense bill into law Saturday despite having "serious reservations" about provisions that regulate the detention,…

Tonight's debate came at a pivotal moment as the candidates vying to become the Republican challenger to Barack Obama in 2012 fought to keep ground and in some cases remain relevant. For the first time in the cycle, the candidates stepped up to the mic and bluntly called out their competitors. Unlike the horrendously boring love-ins that proceeded it, this debate was fun to watch and relatively informative, at least in regards to the character of the candidates themselves. We learned that…

This is a story that I don't feel is getting enough attention. Two days ago, Education Secretary Arne Duncan bypassed the rule of law and our elected bodies of government and unilaterally voided the law without any authorization or consultation from congress:

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has announced that he will unilaterally override the No Child…

To anyone still clinging to their Guns, Religion, and sanity the debt crisis and the debate of the past several months may seem like something out of dystopian science fiction. Our common sense tells us that when we are running out of money, so much so that we can't pay our bills, we should reign in our habits and bring our fiscal house in order. This simple concept seems to have been lost somewhere in Washington as politicians bicker about minute spending cuts over the course of a a decade…