Plan B fails as Conservatives win

By: Chet Nichols (Diary)  |  December 21st at 01:09 PM  | 

This week, House Republicans put together a bill aimed at preventing America from going over the Fiscal Cliff, or so it seemed.  Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), with the help of Eric Cantor (R-VA) put together a proposal known as “Plan B” that would temporarily replace automatic sequestration cuts and raise taxes on Americans making more than $1 million dollars. At first glance, both conservative and | Read More »

US sending $1billion worth of F-16′s to Egypt

By: Chet Nichols (Diary)  |  December 11th at 10:16 AM  | 

With uncertainty surrounding our nation’s economic stability, the Obama administration is set to send $1 billion worth of F-16’s to Egypt, while reducing our own National Defense. Despite unrest in Cairo and abroad, the United States is sending 20 F-16 fighter jets to Egypt beginning January 2013. The initiative is part of a foreign aid package that began in 2010, though Hosni Mubarak has since been removed. | Read More »