Tag: congress

Looking at what we’ve done in the years since the 9/11 attacks we see that we as a people have decided to be worse at most everything

Ceilings are terrifying places to be hitting, especially if you’re being crushed by something, like debt.

Why Cutting SNAP really isn’t that big of a deal-unless you are a legislator who owns a grocery store.

Grainne Rhuad- There will still be work to do after the spectacle of the Presidential election.

W.D. Noble- Shares his yearly wrap-up and predictions for 2012

Jane Stillwater- Imagine if George W. Bush had just told Saddam Hussein, “If you don’t immediately give me all your oil, I’m going to threaten to HOLD YOUR HAND!” Perhaps if that had happened, we would have re-written history– and all too many Americans

Grainne Rhuad- Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.- Mark Twain

W.D. Noble-“I lost my job in July of 2009”, stated one man, flatly, as it he were saying, “It’s raining and cold outside today.” In his case, both were true. “I lost my house, my wife, my car….” The look on his face told the rest – he’d also lost his will to live.

By: Grainne Rhuad
What happens when the “Right” turns out to be right about something? Is it okay for the “Right” to be right sometimes?

“On March 27, 1861, the unprecedented happened. During a filibuster over commerce, the Southern states declared their states rights pursuant to the Constitution and walked out of Congress…”