Washington Politics

Home foreclosures & Oil hit record high, while Washington Politicians sit Idly by Doing Nothing to Help Americans: By Marc Chamot Washington outrage! Higher oil prices and we are losing our homes in record rates but nobody in Washington is really listening folks! Since George Bush took office in 2000 oil prices per barrel were $27, and now over $104 dollars, a whopping 259% increase! We got an asinine president like in George Bush dancing the Texas two-step on the steps of the White House... Read Full Story

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This is the prayer originally entitled "Let Our Hearts Be Stout" written by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as Allied troops were invading German-occupied Europe during World War II. The prayer was read to the nation on radio on the evening of D-Day, June 6, 1944, while American, British and Canadian troops were fighting to establish beach heads on the coast of Normandy in France. The previous night, June 5, the President had also been on the radio to announce that Allied troops had entered... Read Full Story

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT-- RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, the president is not backing down.  He was out at the AGC convention, that's the Associated General Contractors of America convention.  I just want to play you a little portion of his remarks. THE PRESIDENT:  Day by day, block by block, we are steadfast in helping Iraqi leaders counter the terrorists, protect their people, and reclaim the capital -- and if I didn't think it was necessary for the security of the country, I wouldn't put our kids... Read Full Story

Last week a friend in Tucson emailed me the following which is presented below.  Its author is unknown, but I found amusing so I thought I would pass it along.  If you are politically sensitive and support government subsidized welfare, and otherwise a bleeding liberal, you may take offence to the narrative.  Frankly, I don’t [...] Read Full Story