GUESTS AVAILABLE TODAY (scroll down for the complete articles):
1. John LeBoutillier: Voter Backlash will Punish the Dems
2. James Hirsen: Sarkozy’s Delivery of Polanski Plea to Obama Is Absurd
3. Kyle Olson: Why ACORN is Unworthy of Our Hard-Earned Tax Dollars
4. Gerard Lameiro: Is a VAT Tax Back on the Table?
Voter Backlash will Punish the Dems
The new Pew Poll, which has found that a stunning 80% of the American people now distrust the government, is a window into a long-building political trend: the voters this November are furious at everybody but especially at the Democratic leadership of Obama/Pelosi/Reid. Thus, the inevitable outcome in the mid-term elections is going to be a historic thrashing of the “in” party – the Democrats. They are going to lose dozens of seats in the House (perhaps enough to lose control) and maybe 5-8 seats in the Senate, too. Make no mistake: the American people are ticked off at the GOP, too. But the Democrats are in power, so they will feel more of the wrath. But in primaries like Florida and Arizona, GOP media establishment faves like Charlie Crist and John McCain may lose to this same anti-establishment anger.) [more...]
Sarkozy’s Delivery of Polanski Plea to Obama Is Absurd
By James Hirsen
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has hand-delivered a letter to President Obama from fugitive director Roman Polanski. In the letter, Polanski evidently requests that Obama provide leniency in his case. During the recent Washington, D.C. summit on nuclear proliferation, Sarkozy slipped the letter from the Oscar winner and fugitive from justice to Obama, according to the French periodical, L’Express. The politics of a president’s going to bat for a person who admitted having unlawful sexual relations with a 13-year-old and subsequently fleeing the country is ill-advised to the point of absurdity. Sarkozy apparently assisted Polanski in gaining release from prison on $4.5 million bail and being placed under house arrest at Polanski’s Swiss chalet. [more...]
Why ACORN is Unworthy of Our Hard-Earned Tax Dollars
By Kyle Olson
A federal court of appeals overturned Clinton-appointee Judge Nina Gershon’s ruling that claimed the government had the right and responsibility to fund ACORN. Thank God, in light of the latest antics from ACORN Chief Organizer Berth Lewis. While applauding the Young Democratic Socialists, she said, “Any group that says, ‘I’m young, I’m Democratic, and I’m a socialist,’ is all right with me.” I’m glad the real socialists, with the ear of our government, are finally standing up to be counted. The Tea Parties, which Lewis called a “bowel movement,” are bringing America into a phase that will surpass Jim Crow, McCarthyism and the Japanese internment camps of World War II. [more...]
Is a VAT Tax Back on the Table?
It has been reported that President Obama might consider a VAT (or Value-Added Tax) – essentially a National Sales Tax. Recently, former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volker brought up the topic of a VAT tax as a potential way to boost taxes. But others thought much differently, including the U.S. Senate that voted overwhelmingly 85-13 last week in a non-binding resolution to state that a VAT “is a massive tax increase that will cripple families on fixed income and only further push back America’s economic recovery.” After that Senate vote, it sounded like this bad idea would go away. Now, we learn it might be back on the table. What is a VAT tax? What would a VAT tax really do to America and to our struggling economy? A VAT tax is a type of excise tax that works much like a National Sales Tax. However, it’s actually worse than a sales tax. A VAT tax charges a tax on a product at each stage of production, up to and including, the final sale to the consumer. [more...]
