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NOTE: I'm a longtime FR member. Some short-sighted admin who doesn't understand the importance of the work I do in uncovering the radical left (at least people tell me it's important) pulled my last post for "solicitation." I mean, seriously guys, is this any way to fight the left? Do you want to lose the fight against Obama et al.? How am I supposed to get the message out to the people who care about the subject matter the most? This time I won't link to anywhere where you can buy the book. Happy now, admin? Stop fragging the good...

Forget what the polls say. Reasonable doubt has been placed in the minds of Americans concerning the birthplace of one whose qualifications require being born in the United States. Democrats know there is a problem and on the surface, are circling the wagons. But let’s focus on the bigger issue: Why is Trump doing this?

Hi. I'm Matthew Vadum and I've been a member of Free Republic for close to five years, I think. I've been hounding ACORN for three of those years and have discovered some fascinating and disturbing things about the group, Saul Alinsky, Richard Cloward, Frances Fox Piven, LBJ's "War on Poverty," and ACORN founder Wade Rathke. Even if you think you know ACORN pretty well, you'll still learn new and shocking things about President Obama's favorite activist group. The book contains exclusive interviews with Newt Gingrich, Howard Phillips, David Horowitz, Eugene Genovese, Ron Radosh, and even longtime ACORN ally Noam Chomsky....

...Stopping Tax Increases on Families and Small BusinessesFirst, let's look at the level. Keeping taxes at 18-19 percent of GDP is what Americans have been paying for all of living memory. Raising this level would result in record and sustained tax hikes on families and small business owners. It should be the job of any budget to bring federal spending DOWN to the tax level, not bring the tax level UP to whatever level of spending Washington wants. Three plans that fail in this regard are the Obama budget, the Simpson-Bowles commission report, and the "Gang of Six" rumors. All...

...The Upton-Inhofe proposal was specifically tailored to pre-empt Agency overreach by returning authority over the America’s climate policy to Congress. Constitutional issues aside, an unchecked EPA is expected to lose billions in revenue and kill hundreds of thousands of jobs nationwide. Congratulations are due to the Democrat members of both chambers who had enough sense to buck their party’s Big Green Government ideology. In the senate, only four Democrats voted for the McConnell amendment: Mary Landrieu, Joe Manchin, Ben Nelson, and Mark Pryor. Apparently seeking to return the favor, Susan Collins (R-Maine) went turncoat and deprived her party of a...

The respected Irish columnist Richard Waghorne has come out against “gay marriage” again – but this time it’s more personal. In his own words: I am not a big believer in people making arguments on the back of who or what they happen to be. When I last made the case in these pages against gay marriage, about a year ago, I didn’t feel the need to mention that I am gay myself. Arguments stand on their own two feet, or don’t, but not on the strength of who happens to be making them. Nor, I don’t mind adding, did...

This analysis of data collected over 12 months proves conclusively that with this mad rush to construction and use or renewable power, emissions of CO2 are in fact increasing, which is the opposite of what we are told will happen. Total electrical power consumption increased by 4.7%, and yet CO2 emissions increased by 7%, in both the coal fired sector, and the natural gas fired sector as well. With the huge ramping up in construction of wind plants, renewable power only increased from 1.89% to 2.32%. Emissions rose by 201 million tons to 3.27 Billion tons.

This week, Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Dan Coats (R-Ind.) introduced S. 727, the "Bipartisan Tax Fairness and Simplification Act of 2011." It has one key advantage--namely, lowering the corporate rate from 35 to 24 percent. This is a big deal. Unfortunately, the bill is riddled with many other problems, to the point that it has to rank among the most disappointing of these efforts we've seen. Among the issues: There's not yet a score from the Joint Committee on Taxation. As a result, it's impossible to judge whether this bill is a net tax increase, a net tax cut,...

Today, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) released his FY 2012 budget resolution. It is a no-tax-increase budget which stands in stark contrast to the Simpson-Bowles (Obama) commission (and the Coburn-Chambliss “Gang of Six” which is introducing legislation modeled after Simpson-Bowles). The Ryan approach is the conservative one... Read more: http://www.atr.org/paul-ryans-budget-real-conservative-looks-a6023#ixzz1Ir3F0fkk

For my Catholic viewers and friends: The solution to the catholic sex scandal and how to protect novices and altar boys from paedophiles and perverts. As Shown by Father Curtis Staring Emily Mortimer as the Novice Michael Cochrane as Sir Henry Simmerson the disgusting pervert John Kavanagh as Father Curtis From the TV show Sharpe's Sword.

...It's easy to see why single cigarette purchases are popular and profitable in Manhattan. Lonnie Warner, the black market salesman mentioned above, buys cartons of cigarette shipped to New York City (cigarette tax: $5.85 per pack) from Virginia (cigarette tax: 30 cents per pack) illegally and sells them for a profit a couple cigarettes at a time. It's not legal, but it's lucrative. The NYT story reads like an episode of The Wire, with Warner shuffling from block to block in search of action, retreating to Harlem to replenish his stash via a network of suppliers. The constant struggle for...

...2) Amendment No. 18 (Federal Employee Accountability Act) Status: failed. Designed to prevent government employees from conducting union-related activities while on the clock. Had it passed, Rep. Gingrey’s (R-Ga.) amendment would have preserved “official time” from “the negotiation of a collective bargaining agreement, if commenced before suchdate of enactment; any proceeding before the Federal Labor Relations Authority, if commenced before such date of enactment; or any other matter pending on such date of enactment, in connection with which any official time has been used or granted before such date.” According to the Office of Personnel Management, FY 2008 saw union...

Tim Wu, the coiner of the term "network neutrality", and a senior adviser to the FTC, has an interesting solution to solve the non-existent problems plaguing the tech industry. As The Chronicle of Higher Education reports: "In the class at MIT, Wu floats some hypothetical ways you could fight abuse... "something like term limits for monopolists. In theory, the government could say, 'Well, this company has clearly shown it's corrupt. ... So let's just nationalize their source code.'"

Video of Washington Congressman Jim McDermott saying he's tired of reading the U.S. Constitution...

*MP3 audio dP20101223 Hr 3 THU.mp3 of the interview by Dennis Prager of Professor Bruce Herschensohn’s new book on the Vietnam War, “An American Amnesia” Does being on the left mean never having to say that you are sorry?—If you are talking about the Vietnam War and who won it 35 years later, that very well may be the case. Regarding the real truth of the Vietnam War after the fall of Saigon, Laos and Cambodia, Senator Fulbright, D-AK, who was also the chair of the Foreign Relations Committee summed up the sentiment of the 94th Congress, “I am no...

...The list also includes spending programs that are less well known, like public engineering spending and spending on the National Science Foundation. One receipt shows that the average taxpayer in California making $45,000 per year pays $8,442.85 in federal taxes. From that amount $1,610.73 is spent on social security, $44.46 on NASA, and so on. While the website operates in general terms, this brief look into where taxpayers’ money is actually spent is an interesting breakdown that is not seen very often. Anything that promotes more transparency in government and allows taxpayers to track roughly where their money goes should...

...Now the Obama administration is faced with the FAA bill's Title IX provision, which stands to reverse the NMB's hard work on behalf of Big Labor. The administration's memorandum claims "by treating non-votes as “no” votes, the provision would prohibit workers in the airline and railroad industries from voting whether to join a union on the same basis – majority rule – as most other industries." Of course it does, Mr. President, precisely because the transportation sector is so radically vital and different from other industries. In addition, unionization should not be a thing against which workers must constantly defend...

...If on any given day you find yourself walking through the hallowed halls of ATR, you will find the staff pining away for the sweet taste of “Mexican Coca-Cola” or any other bottle of Coke not produced in the U.S. and thus not tainted with sticky un-refreshing taste of corn syrup. The reason for the difference lies in the U.S. Government’s efforts to keep sugar prices artificially high by restricting the amount of sugar that can be imported to the U.S. This result is the price of sugar in the U.S. being one-half to two-thirds higher than in other countries...