Previous projects of Americans for Prosperity have included astroturf campaigns on behalf of tobacco companies in order to promote smoking in public places. Americans for Prosperity refuses to tell which corporations are providing the funding for its work against health care reform.

Even if the funds from the bill were used to establish a National Climate Service, what would the problem be? Climate Change is a grave problem that’s ripping billions and billions of dollars out of the American economy every year, and putting large numbers of American lives at risk.

If he were more reflective, Representative Broun might see that efforts to mix church and state in defiance of the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights doesn’t help Christianity at all, but turns people off, leading them to look for alternatives to following the Bible.

Not a single Democrat in Congress got an award from the National Taxpayers Union this year. Dozens of Republicans did. How does that qualify the National Taxpayers Union as nonpartisan?

On Friday, U.S. Representative Paul Broun declared that he was worried that our nation might experience economic troubles sometime, in the future. Thanks for the warning, Mr. Broun.

The Republicans in the House of Representatives are determined to actually punish schools that allow students to sing the national anthem or recite the Pledge of Allegiance in freedom.

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.

If an oil company isn’t even using the leases of public lands they already have, why should they take on yet more leases… unless what those oil companies really want to do is just squat on their leases of public lands with oil under them only in order to prevent the oil from being drilled, thus decreasing supply and artificially driving up the cost of petroleum products so that they can make a bigger profit without doing any more work.

To vote for this bill was to insult the Constitution of the United States of America, and in doing so, to insult the USA itself. A vote in favor of this bill is a betrayal of the Oath of Office every member of Congress has taken. It is unpatriotic, and a grave breach of trust.

Only someone determined not to see what’s happening around them could deny that America is going through profound economic suffering. Gasoline prices are up, and that means that there’s inflation for practically everything else we buy too. At the same time, work is increasingly hard to come by. New jobs aren’t being created much any [...]