The #1 Threat to Our National Security is Not What You Think

By: David Bossie (Diary)  |  June 1st at 04:29 PM  | 

Promoted from the diaries. – ed. Our crushing $14 trillion national debt is as much a national security threat as it is an economic disaster.  According to Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen, “The most significant threat to our national security is our debt.” Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has said, “We can’t have a strong military if we have a weak economy.” Even | Read More »

It’s Oligarchical Collectivism or Shutdown

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  April 5th at 12:39 PM  | 

DISCLOSURE: Repair_Man_Jack is a psuedonym for a person who works as a Civil Servant for the United States Federal Government. “A lot of people with budgetary responsibility are planning for a shutdown instead of for next year’s budget,” said Diane Breckenridge, who works in the office of the secretary of Health and Human Services. “It doesn’t add to the productivity of the government.” (HT: Washington | Read More »

A Note to House Republicans Patting Themselves On the Back

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  March 16th at 10:19 AM  | 

There are House Republicans patting themselves on the back today for passing a three week continuing resolution that “cuts” $6 billion in spending, largely by stopping earmarks not already spent. According to the Politico, Rep. Steve Stivers (R-OH), Mike Simpson (R-ID), Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), and others are bristling over conservative opposition to the short term spending resolution. That opposition, by the way, was because the | Read More »

Pray For The Japanese As The Abyss Looms Before Them

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  March 15th at 11:03 AM  | 

It was Sunday, just after the earthquake had leveled much of Northern Japan. I was scanning my hotmail account with more than the usual curiosity. A close personal friend of mine (a former girlfriend to be more honest) still lives in Tokyo, and I had written to see if she were OK. Things turned out as well for her as could possibly be hoped. She, | Read More »

State of the Union: Who’s Sitting with the 800 lb. Gorilla?

By: David Bossie (Diary)  |  January 25th at 01:36 PM  | 

Tonight the President delivers his State of the Union Address to the nation. This annual event brings representatives from all three branches of government into the Capitol at the same time. But there is another figure looming that has been ignored for far too long. The national debt – currently at $14 trillion and counting – is the 800 pound gorilla in the room. There | Read More »

National debt increased 60% under Speaker Pelosi

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  January 3rd at 10:00 AM  | 

There are lots of reasons I will not miss Nancy Pelosi‘s extreme left wing speakership. There’s Air Pelosi and radical legislation such Cap and Tax and ObamaCare. But the biggest reason to cheer the end of the ultra-Liberal/Progressive Pelosi Speakership is the national debt. In the four years that Pelosi was Speaker the national debt increased an unbelievable 60%. When the Pelosi Democrats took control | Read More »

Drowning in Red Ink

By: Congressman Frank Lucas (Diary)  |  June 11th at 03:30 PM  | 

This month, our country reached a staggering milestone – the national debt topped $13 trillion.  To put that in perspective, if you were to spend $1 per second, it would take you about 412,000 years to rack up $13 trillion in debt.  While the median income per person in 2004 was $23,535, each American taxpayer’s share of the national debt is $118,500. Even more troubling, | Read More »

Reckless, Feckless, Relentless Incompetence

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  June 3rd at 07:02 PM  | 

[image sources: Treasury Direct and AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais] Via the Washington Times we learn the National Debt has now surpassed the 13 trillion dollar mark. Yeah, I know…yawn…so what. The problem here is that we just watched Congress barely pass a Bill raising the National Debt ceiling to 12.394 TRILLION dollars. Obama, master of everyone else’s checkbook, signed it into law on December 28, | Read More »

Obama’s Bloated Budget in Pictures

By: Robert Bluey (Diary)  |  March 17th at 09:14 PM  | 

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), ranking member on the House Budget Committee, has done the American people a great service as the debate commences on President Barack Obama’s budget. We’ve all heard the argument from congressional Republicans: “It spends too much, borrows too much and taxes too much.” Put those words next to pictures and you begin to realize their significance. The following 11 slides should | Read More »