Special interest groups = downfall of America

Dad, bless his soul, used to state the title of this article quite frequently. What he was saying by that was: lobby groups for special interest groups manipulate American politics effectively ripping the country apart 'at the seams'. He also questioned the effectiveness of...

Family Day - Holiday For Some, Just Another Day For Most

Family Day - Holiday For Some, Just Another Day For Most Mike WoodFeb 20 2012 Family Day was originally celebrated by Alberta in 1990, with the premier of Alberta at the time, Don Getty, having the third Monday of February proclaimed as Family Day. Getty is said to have...

Olympia Snowe Republicans and a Biophilic Alliance

The Olympia Snowe Republicans were the yuppies and entrepreneurs of 1980s and 1990s. These people were attracted to the Republican Party for its promise of economic opportunity. After seeing the economy thrive under Clinton and fail under Bush, and after seeing the Republican...

America is neither conservative nor evangelical

By James A. George, aka YankeeJimsAmerica.com, American Political System Columnist, Politisite According to a June 2009 poll, conservatives are the largest ideological group at 40%. Yet, hold on, Moderates are 35%...

Conservative Advice to #Occupy Wall Street (#OWS) and the 99%

To begin with, thank you.  Thank you for taking the time to be involved in our country’s politics. For many years, various people have opined about the apathy of the American voter while American...

THERE ARE NOT 2 MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES IN THE USA

There are not 2 major political parties in the USA, there is only one corrupt, duplicitous, incumbent ruling class elite pretending to be 2 separate political parties. The USA is not currently a constitutionally...

Minneapolis Best Buy to cut holiday hires in half - Who to blame?

"As is this author’s normal routine a couple days per week, breakfast was enjoyed at the local Monticello MN McDonalds http://bit.ly/qvtHOm . (Their dollar Sweet Tea and dollar sausage burrito being the...

Liberals are not against deficit cutting

Liberals are against cutting essential social services so that the Department of Defense and Military Industrial Complex can continue to drain needed capital from the nation. The path to securing America is the...

Raising BC's Minimum Wage? Isn't it about time!

Recently Moira Stilwell announced her candidacy for the Liberal Leadership.  Today, she urges the Provincial Government to raise the minimum wage to $10.00 over a 2 year period, with similar increases to...

The liberal elite, crying over its “winder” lifestyle

As quoted in the Wall Street Journal:  "Even Americans most likely to be winners from trade -- upper-income, well-educated professionals, whose jobs are less likely to go overseas and whose industries are often buoyed by demand from international markets -- are...

Searching for the norm among abnormal

Jon Stewart rally news is DOA When I first wrote about the Jon Stewart rally, I didn’t take it as serious news anymore than I took Glen Beck’s rally as being serious. I focused on the toilets, and in the end,...

Rock throwing in the church of state

Weisenheimer Krauthammer makes little sense in “The last refuge of a liberal.”  Here’s what I mean: “Liberalism” is not really the subject, much less “under siege.” That is a statement Charles...

Shirley Sherrod: Now, What Have We Learned....?

I gotta say, when it comes to idiotic race/racist/racism/racialism stories....when it rains, it POURS. And we (hopefully) wrap up this round of America's Racial Retardation Tour with the plight of Mrs. Shirley...

I am a recovering Barackaholic

My skin is yellow with liberalism. I wanted that free healthcare, free education, free breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I wanted to be more European, I thought. So, we bought the farm and ran out of hay. We...

I am a Conservative trapped in a Liberal's body.

This is a preview of an article I wrote on examiner.com regarding what it means to be a conservative. " I am a conservative trapped in a liberals body. I want everything I want for free. And I want only the best.  And, to be fair,  I want everyone else to have...

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