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URGENT: Please help us run our national ad to expose the dangerous agenda of 'La Raza' Americans were shocked and outraged when students took over the Tucson school board meeting last week, shackling themselves to chairs and tables, and screaming about "racist America" along with Mexican-nationalist and Marxist slogans. The students were from "Aztlan Academy", a school funded by "La Raza" in which the almost exclusively Hispanic students are taught that American laws and culture are racist, and that the American Southwest was stolen from Mexico, and must one day be "reconquered" by Hispanics. The National Council of La Raza...

Members of the Congress: In meeting the constitutional requirement of informing the Congress upon the state of the Union, it is exceedingly gratifying to report that the general condition is one of progress and prosperity. Here and there are comparatively small and apparently temporary difficulties needing adjustment and improved administrative methods, such as are always to be expected, but in the fundamentals of government and business the results demonstrate that we are going in the right direction. The country does not appear to require radical departures from the policies already adopted so much as it needs a further extension of...

Very moving story of a woman who is a survivor of a saline abortion.

I was out driving this evening with the radio tuned to my favorite talk station. A commercial came on for an employment contract house, explaining how the ObamaCare mandates are putting a damper on business plans and their new co-employment service is there to be partnered with to help ease the burden. I don’t know the details of this service. For all I know it is just rebranding and a new market pitch for the temporary/contract employment concept, but it gives pause for wonder whether this is the first sign that life as an employee as we used to know...

Product Description In this lively and compelling biography Harlow Giles Unger reveals the dominant political figure of a generation. A fierce fighter in four critical Revolutionary War battles and a courageous survivor of Valley Forge and a near-fatal wound at the Battle of Trenton, James Monroe (1751–1831) went on to become America’s first full-time politician, dedicating his life to securing America’s national and international durability. Decorated by George Washington for his exploits as a soldier, Monroe became a congressman, a senator, U.S. minister to France and Britain, governor of Virginia, secretary of state, secretary of war, and finally America’s fifth...

I wanted to post the videos that I shot at the Meet the Candidate night at the Port of Pittsford Park last Sunday for those of you who could not attend. I thought his speech was impressive and the content important for voters to know about. I have adde text call-out as he is speaking for emphasis on content. The Q&A is just straight video. The only edits were pauses for space to fit within the sub-10 minute requirement to post on YouTube.

Our current economic problems started in the second half of 2007 when the rate of inflation started to fall (disinflation), as evidenced by the growth of commodity prices and wages (expectations) outpacing the growth of core inflation, and fell persistently through the end of 2008. This disinflation, which is ultimately controlled by the Federal Reserve, is likely the cause of the housing market collapse. The sharpness of the fall and persistence of it lead to the subsequent banking failures by making loans that otherwise would have been good bad, and turned what otherwise would have been a garden variety recession...

May 18, 2010 President Obama: I am writing to you today with concern about the behavior of both the Attorney General of the United States and the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security which smacks of mere political opportunism rather than rational, even-tempered administration of the law. Mr. President, over the course of the last several months we have experienced at least three separate incidents of terrorism on our soil. Two of the perpetrators, the ones involving the mass shooting at Ft. Hood and the Christmas Day attempted airline bombing, were involved with a faction of the Eastern Islamic...

Dr. B. Franklin Madison Debates Saturday June 2, 1787 IN COMMITTEE OF WHOLE Sir. It is with reluctance that I rise to express a disapprobation of any one article of the plan for which we are so much obliged to the honorable gentleman who laid it before us. From its first reading I have borne a good will to it, and in general wished it success. In this particular of salaries to the Executive branch I happen to differ; and as my opinion may appear new and chimerical, it is only from a persuasion that it is right, and from...

December 23, 1776 THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods;...

The village of Brockport is facing serious financial challenges. That part isn't up for debate, but what should be done about it? Some say the village's elected leaders have run the village into the ground and getting rid of the government altogether is the only answer. Others say dissolution will create more problems than it will solve. It is home to the Erie Canal, a state university and nearly 200 years of history. A newly formed group of citizens says it is trying to save Brockport. "There is no pot of gold at the end of the dissolution rainbow," said...

FreedomWorks is calling everyone that is able to Washington, DC on March 16th, 2010 for one more push against Obamacare. We will meet at the Cannon building at 9am and speak with as many representatives as possible, encouraging them to vote NO on this version of health care reform.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Barack Obama's first State of the Union address was "very troubling" and that the annual speech to Congress has "degenerated into a political pep rally." Responding to a University of Alabama law student's question about the Senate's method of confirming justices, Roberts said senators improperly try to make political points by asking questions they know nominees can't answer because of judicial ethics rules. "I think the process is broken down," he said.

I can't post articles from Bloomberg.com here, but on their home page they have a story about Germany's hesitation in bailing out Greece. It says that Merkel doesn't have domestic support for the bailout and thinks that if Greece cuts enough out of its budget that they can win back investors.

Today takes some time while hunting in the great outdoors to discuss a recent major local issue, natural gas drilling. Tom supports opening up the Marcellus Shale to drilling, with strict enforcement of regulations to protect our environment. We urgently need to access these resources for the jobs they can create. We also need this and other domestic sources of energy to ween our nation off of foreign crude oil. Thus the Marcellus Shale can help protect both our fiscal and national security. However, Tom opposes the underground storage of waste from the drilling process. He discusses some ways that...

I'm doing self-study about the political history of the civil war and I'm up to the late 1840's so far. I have the "Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era" (Oxford History of the United States) by James M. McPherson on its way, but it ends as the Reconstruction Era is starting. There are so many on the subject it's impossible to know which are worth my time. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks a bunch in advance!

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- States are looking to the federal government for more help balancing their budgets, but the Senate is not heeding their call. Federal aid to the states was among the top priorities in an early Senate job creation bill, as well as in a $154 billion measure passed by the House in December. But it has fallen off the list as Senate Democrats look to craft legislation that will attract bipartisan support. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., on Thursday unveiled a jobs bill that does not contain state aid. A Senate Democratic aide said Reid hopes...

The U.S. Constitution vests all the "legislative powers" it grants in Congress. The Supreme Court allows Congress to delegate some authority to executive officials provided an "intelligible principle" guides such transfers. Congress quickly wrote and enacted the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 in response to a financial crisis. The law authorized the secretary of the Treasury to spend up to $700 billion purchasing troubled mortgage assets or any financial instrument in order to attain 13 different goals. Most of these goals lacked any concrete meaning, and Congress did not establish any priorities among them. As a result, Congress lost...

The $787 billion federal stimulus package that Congress passed last year has gotten even bigger -- now expected to cost $862 billion, over the next 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The nonpartisan CBO report, published Tuesday, attributes the $75 billion increase to added unemployment-related costs. More Americans are receiving unemployments benefits for lost jobs that the stimulus bill was meant to save, the report says. About $21 billion of the added costs stem from higher unemployment compensation payments, while the remainder of the increase comes from food assistance payments and interest payments from states on taxable government...

House and Senate Democrats have produced health care legislation whose mandates, subsidies, tax penalties, and health insurance regulations would penalize work and reward Americans who refuse to purchase health insurance. As a result, the legislation could trap many Americans in low-wage jobs and cause even higher health-insurance premiums, government spending, and taxes than are envisioned in the legislation. Those mandates and subsidies would impose effective marginal tax rates on low-wage workers that would average between 53 and 74 percent— and even reach as high as 82 percent—over broad ranges of earned income. By comparison, the wealthiest Americans would face tax...