National Blog - page 190
Common Core Bringing People Together...
... against it, as a wide coalition continues to push to rid education of this latest federal assault. Politico looks at actions on the local level challenging adoption of the Common Core: School districts from New Hampshire to Oregon are [...]
National debt may be paid off.....in 400 million years
Thanks to Simon Black at Sovereign Man for suggesting we start measuring the national debt in what he calls "work years." As the name suggests, work years means how many years it would take to pay off the debt if every American man, woman, and [...]
WATCH: Mark Sanford at LPAC 2014
Rep. Mark Sanford (SC-1) addressed attendees at the 2014 Liberty Political Action Conference on Thursday, September 18, at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center. Sanford talked about the growth of the House Liberty Caucus in recent years and [...]
Is it really so bad to pay Federal workers for doing nothing?
The Washington Post reports that the US Government has spent millions of taxpayer dollars paying tens of thousands of federal workers to do nothing. These workers have been charged with some type of misbehavior, and thus have been placed on [...]
WATCH: Ted Cruz at LPAC 2014
Senator Ted Cruz addressed the 2014 Liberty Political Action Conference on Thursday, September 18, at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center. He spoke about the need to defend the Constitution, a "passion of every man and woman here," as Cruz [...]
WATCH: Glenn Jacobs at LPAC 2014
Glenn Jacobs, also known as the WWE Superstar "Kane," addressed the 2014 Liberty Political Action Conference on Thursday, September 18th, at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center on the topic of free market economics. Watch as he lays the [...]
Cutting Foreign Aid: Smart and Safe
Neoconservative (and leading Rand Paul critic) Jennifer Rubin's latest attack on Senator Paul centers on Senator Paul's proposal to end foreign aid. Most of her article is filled with the same old clichés supporters of a constitutional foreign [...]
Taxpayers Fund Swedish Massages for Rabbits
U.S. taxpayers paid for rabbits to receive Swedish massages four times per day according to Senator Tom Coburn's annual report on government waste which he released today. Other wasteful spending includes putting mountain lions, moneys, rats, and [...]
What do Obamacare and the war on ISIS have in common?
The Obama Administration has not been honest with the American people about the costs of either. When he was in Congress, Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul ignored the ten year cost estimates ("scores") of legislation, he was only [...]
National Service is Anti-Liberty and Un-American
Former Clinton Administration Labor Secretary Robert Reich recently called on the government to force young people to spend two years either “serving” in the military or performing some other type of government-directed “community [...]