“We know our economy’s stronger when we reward an honest day’s work with honest wages. But today, a full-time worker making the minimum wage earns $14,500 a year. Even with the tax relief we’ve put in place, a family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That’s wrong. Tonight, let’s declare that, in the wealthiest nation on Earth, | Read More »
Joe Carr has introduced HB0042 in the Tennessee General Assembly. This bill would make it a Class A Misdemeanor for any federal agent to enforce any new regulation, executive order, etc. that seeks to: (1) Ban or restrict ownership of a semi automatic firearm, firearm accessory, or ammunition; or (2) Require any firearm, firearm accessory, or ammunition to be registered in any manner. It also | Read More »
The right of the people to keep and bear arms is under assault by Washington politicians. They are plotting as we speak to come up with new regulations that will have no effect on gun violence but will only place onerous restrictions on Americans seeking to exercise their God-given right to possess firearms. They make phony gun control arguments and are playing on fear and | Read More »
In states that setup their own exchanges, businesses with 50 or more full-time employees will be penalized financially for not complying with the insurance requirements. Obamacare defines “full-time” as anyone who works 30 or more hours per week. So, to avoid being penalized, employers will undoubtedly cut enough workers’ hours under 30 so they will not be considered full-time and therefore will be under the | Read More »
Newt Gingrich has come under fire recently for his statement that Barack Obama is the “Food Stamp President.” In response to Gingrich, the left makes three claims: 1. Racist! 2. It’s Bush’s fault. 3. Well yes, but the population has increased too so Obama can’t be blamed. It is this last claim that I wanted to take a look at and see if population growth | Read More »
The state of Tennessee recently passed a voter ID law that would require voters to present a photograph ID before voting. At first, if the voter did not have a legal ID, they would have to purchase one. Naturally, the Democrats opposed the measure, saying that it would impose a poll tax on those Tennesseans that had to purchase an ID. On the floor of | Read More »
I’ll be brief. It’s a long weekend and I am ready for some vacation time but I really think this needs to be known. I wrote a post highlighting the left-wing philosophy of the United Methodist Church here. Here is another example of such thinking. Today, the UMC posted a blog on its website describing how United Methodists should (or shouldn’t) remember 9/11. I have | Read More »
Before I begin, I would like to make one thing clear. My criticism of the UMC is leveled directly at the elites in the UMC and not at local pastors, congregation members, etc. I fully understand that United Methodists can have differing opinions on issues. This isn’t really the purpose of this post. I have three points: One being that the ideology espoused by the | Read More »
Throughout Obama’s one term in office, many comparisons have been made between him and other U.S. Presidents. Some say he is like Ronald Reagan (haha). Others claim he is Jimmy Carter, Jr. He is even compared to George W. Bush by liberal critics of his. The most accurate comparison has got to be between Obama and another spendthrift president: Franklin Roosevelt. Consider the following two | Read More »
It never fails. Whenever discussions of the massive increase in the federal debt under Obama, Pelosi, and Reid come up, you can always count on a liberal to say, “Oh yeah? Well Bush (insert wildly exaggerated, or flat out erroneous, claim here).” Liberals seem to forget (or choose to ignore) who controlled congress during Bush’s terms in office. This ignorance was on full display when | Read More »
The debt ceiling debate has exposed Social Security as the biggest con job ever perpetuated on the American people. When Obama said that he couldn’t guarantee that Social Security checks would be sent out if the debt ceiling wasn’t raised, he tacitly discredited something that proponents of Social Security have been saying literally every since FDR instituted SS: Social Security is a type of insurance | Read More »
Vice President Joe “jobs is a three letter word” Biden recently spoke to the Teamsters. The Great Uniter’s VP had some harsh words from them. Apparently, if they vote for Republicans, they are “on their own.” Got that Teamsters? Vote Republican and you can’t count on ole Joey Biden to help. However, I don’t really think that Biden has anything to worry about on that | Read More »
Background For the majority of my life I have been a quiet, shy, and reserved person. I was never one to rock-the-boat or to start up conversations about controversial issues. I liked politics but it never seemed like a good fit for me. I was too deep in my shell. I became a conservative during my last semester of high school. After high school I | Read More »
Have you heard how many jobs Obama’s Stimulus has created? Well, according to Ohio State University economists Timothy Conley and Bill Dupor, it has created/saved 450,000! No joke! Wow…I guess we were wrong all along! Oh… wait… those jobs weren’t private sector jobs; they were government jobs. These jobs were saved because the stimulus money was used to “offset state revenue shortfalls.” So what about | Read More »
Much ado has been made about funding for Planned Parenthood and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I believe I have found the solution: THE PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING FUNDING ACT OF 2011 AN ACT An act that would ensure the financial solvency of Planned Parenthood, hereby known as (PP) and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, hereby known as (CPB). This ACT sets | Read More »
Gov. Bill Haslam released his INCITE (innovation, commercialization, investment, technology, and entrepreneurship) plan as a way to support innovation and make Tennessee the “No. 1 location in the Southeast for high quality jobs.” After reading the info from the TN.gov website, it seems this plan is based on the same principle of President Obama’s failed stimulus. That principle being that increased government spending creates jobs. | Read More »
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