Joe Wilson is outraged that domestic government programs are “unsustainable”, but how sustainable is the military? The military creates huge amounts of material that is simply blown up, run through, and cast away.
The House of Representatives rejected protections that might have saved the lives of the workers on the Deepwater Horizon and prevented the tremendous oil spill that resulted from its explosion.
H. Res. 211, if passed, would give congressional endorsement to the designation of the first weekend in May as a national celebration of an ancient Judaic equivalent of Islam’s sharia. That old religious law includes the command to refrain from creating most kinds of artwork.
Most members of the House Tea Party Caucus voted in favor of big government and against constitutional rights in yesterday’s vote on extending the abusive Patriot Act.
The Founding Fathers explicitly defied the first of the Ten Commandments, placing in the Constitution a ban on religious tests for any public office, and further establishing freedom of religion and the separation of
These Republican members of Congress allowed lobbyists for a foreign organization to slip special statements into their official speeches.
Joe Wilson has it backwards. Giving new power to withhold Internet traffic from sites that don’t have enough money to pay to a small number of corporations will not encourage innovation.
Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert this week said of President Barack Obama that “He had poisoned the American people” Dangerous words indeed.
In a special fundraising site set up in response to Joe Wilson shouting at Obama, Rob Miller’s campaign has taken in $42,780 in donations so far. 700 dollars of that has been donated in the last 30 minutes alone – early in the morning.
The Larochelles were seeking to separate the flag from the Constitution, and to make it a symbol of religious belief – and officially recognized by Congress as such. Congressman Mike Turner was more than happy to help them do this – and to try to use the boy scout as a tool to push religion as a wedge issue – when he introduced H.R. 3779.
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