New Insurance Exchange in CA – $910,000,000 and counting to set it up.
No Comments ›› MarkThat's right...$910 million dollars to set up the new insurance exchange in California and market it to the citizens. It's sure to top one billion dollars spent when all is said and done. Can you say "government boondoggle?" "So where’s all the money going? A big ...
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Public Employees – Big $ for the rest of their lives…
2 Comments ›› MarkShe's top of the tops in California. She is a public servant so extraordinary that Alameda County Administrator Susan Muranishi will retire on a package of $423,664 per year. Now I admire the hard work and dedication of long-serving public servants like Ms. Muranishi as ...
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Majority Believe Obamacare is a Big Lie
No Comments ›› MarkThe bad news is that the majority of ruling elite in The Capitol City of DC don't really care what the majority of those of us in the provinces think about what they do. The good news is, we know they are a bunch of ...
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America’s Coming Surveillance Society
1 Comment ›› MarkAmerica’s Coming Surveillance Society By Marta H. Mossburg Kentucky Senator Rand Paul last week filibustered the confirmation of John Brennan for Central Intelligence Agency director over the fine points of drone use on American citizens. He stood before the Senate for 13 hours to protest the fact that ...
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Beware of the New Elites
No Comments ›› MarkThe "New Mandarins," the "New Elites," or whatever you want to call them, are ruining America. These are the members of the real entitlement class. These are the people believe that it's our responsibility to support their lavish lifestyles, their pensions, their huge lobbying fees, ...
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Can the Left and Right have Civil Discourse?
No Comments ›› Mike RuthenbergMark Meckler of Citizens for Self Governance and Joan Blades the founder of MoveOn.org have created Livingroom Conversations. They tackle issues where there is common ground like Crony Capitalism and Criminal Justice Reform. Could this be the start of bridging the Left v. Right Divide? Check ...
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Marissa Mayer, Yahoo CEO, is a hero, not a villain.
1 Comment ›› MarkBy Marta H. Mossburg Lost in the self-righteous clamor to demonize Marissa Mayer for making employees at Yahoo work in the office is a sense of perspective. Everyone from feminist icon Gloria Steinem to Sir Richard Branson, founder and chairman of the Virgin Group, have criticized the ...
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Barack Obama ‘has authority to use drone strikes to kill Americans on US soil’
No Comments ›› MarkDue process? The Constitution? What Constitution? The President and his Attorney General have united civil libertarians on both the left and the right with their outrageous proposition that the President has individual authority to order the assassination of American citizens on American soil via unmanned ...
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New American Diplomacy – Sec. of State John Kerry tells German audience that Americans ‘have a right to be stupid’
No Comments ›› MarkI'm not sure how newly minted Secretary of State John Kerry thinks that this helps America's image in the world, but apparently he does. It is consistent with President Obama's statements internationally that America is sometimes "arrogant." When our leaders in the international arena project ...
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Cronyism Capitol City Style – Harry Reid & G.E. Get it On
No Comments ›› MarkSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid has just hired a "tax adviser" for his Senate staff...one who is exceptionally good. Because you see, she's from G.E...the multi-billion dollar corporation that pays virtually no federal corporate income taxes. And with a top G.E. lawyer on Reid's staff, ...
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Too Young to be Intimidated?
Gavin Rollins looked out into the audience and saw few familiar faces. The city council chamber was packed with people listening attentively as his opponent p ...
Bluegrass and Grassroots in Tennessee
It was July 2012 – a hot month in Tennessee for both weather and politics – and the members of Tennessee Center for Self Governance were facing their to ...