Unsustainable Unconstitutionality
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 182 Current Event According to ABCNews, Mar 13, 2013 President Obama: There Is No Debt Crisis There has been no shortage of dire warnings about the mounting US national debt, but President Obama is now offering a different assessment: no big deal. “We don’t have an immediate crisis in [...]
Food Stamps Linked To Obesity
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 181 Current Event According to The New York Daily News, March 13, 2013 Mayor Bloomberg says costs of treating obesity will ‘bury all of us’ Mayor Bloomberg warned that the cost of treating obesity “is going to bury all of us” on Wednesday as he continued to defend his [...]
Extraordinary Gifts For Votes
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 175 Current Event According to The Los Angeles Times; November 15, 2012 Romney attributes loss to ‘gifts’ Obama gave minorities Mitt Romney said Wednesday that his loss to President Obama was due in large part to his rival’s strategy of giving “gifts” during his first term to three groups [...]
Disasters and Other people’s Money
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 174 Current Event According to FoxNews/AP January 05, 2013 Congress OKs $9.7B in Sandy relief, as conservatives question call for more aid advertisement Washington – Congress approved a $9.7 billion aid bill for victims of Superstorm Sandy on Friday, amid a gusty debate between those who say Congress must [...]
Trading Liberty For Peace
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 172 Current Event According to the Washington Times, December 6, 2012 Church’s ‘Charlie Brown’ Christmas play a casualty of culture wars A new battle line has been drawn in the church/state debate over an unlikely source — “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” One such stage adaptation recently became the center [...]
Giving Thanks To Which God?
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 168 Current Event According to US News; November 20, 2012 More Americans Will Use Food Stamps For Thanksgiving This Year Than Ever Before RSS Feed Print More Americans will use food stamps to buy their Thanksgiving dinner this year than ever before, according to a new report from the [...]
Dropping The Work Requirement
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 167 Current Event According to FoxNews.com/AP; July 23, 2012 House GOP questions legal grounds for changes to welfare work requirements House Republicans said Monday they were “disappointed” with the Obama administration’s plan to waive mandatory work requirements for welfare and questioned the legal grounds being used to make such [...]
Nun’s Risky Mix of Church and State
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 161 Current Event According to an interview by Bill Moyers with one of the Nuns on the Bus spokes person: Full Show: Nuns, Faith and Politics (here is a key excerpt) …………… BILL MOYERS: In the Bible, as you say, when Jesus speaks of helping the poor, feeding the [...]
