While the Obama administration continues to pay lip service to the American ideals of freedom and prosperity, its actions clearly show that it supports very different values.In the waning days of the Bush administration, free trade deals were signed with

A grand jury in Philadelphia recently indicted four men for a plot to support the terrorist group Hezbollah by purchasing 1,200 Colt M4 assault rifles and a number of Stinger missiles and smuggle them into Lebanon through Syria.This sort of

These are the lyrics to "Jefferson and Liberty", a campaign song used by Thomas Jefferson to win the 1800 U.S. presidential election.Note how far the United States has fallen since 1800. Jefferson sang "To tyrants never bend the knee", while

The U.S. maintains an official trade embargo with Cuba, a relic of a time before the United States embraced socialism. Europe and Canada do not have this embargo, and they have been forced to re-learn the risks of doing business

The National Association of Manufacturers recently released The Facts About Modern Manufacturing, which reminds us that one in six U.S. jobs is still tied to manufacturing.The report is also very interesting because it is extremely clear about the difficulties which

Back in July we told you that the U.S. unemployment rate would cross 10% before Christmas, when the Obama administration was still telling Americans that their trillion dollars of pork projects would "create jobs."It should be obvious to everyone now

The National Endowment for the Humanities has published their list of Awards and Offers for August 2009 and the list should be a real eye-opener for the almost 10% of Americans who are unemployed and the much larger percentage of

When faced with unpleasant news, the Obama administration seems unable to take any course other than to attack the messenger.Edmunds, one of the most respected analyst firms in the automotive industry, recently became a target for bilious blatherings from the

The Obama administration has found an impressively sneaky way to gain effective control of several of America's largest corporations.Obama and his cronies in the Congress have "given" Kenneth Feinberg of the Treasury Department dictatorial control over the compensation of the

Apparently, the Obama administration.On 23 August, Tammy Duckworth, Obama's Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs, appeared on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. You can read the transcript here.Duckworth made some statements which simply were not true and Chris "fact checked"

If you're interested in investing, I encourage you to read David Rosenberg's Special Report: The Case for Commodities, Credit, and Canucks.Rosenberg is the Chief Economist at Gluskin Sheff and an almost legendary bear when it comes to economic analysis. This

The Obama administrations jihad against FoxNews is big news these days, but I think it's important to remember that FoxNews wasn't the first news organization to find itself in the crosshairs of Obama's press relations people.That honor is shared by

is another weasel-worded bit of newspeak from the Obama administration and their sycophants in the U.S. Congress.As per usual, the act contains a lot of provisions written in language that seems specifically designed to obfuscate it's true meaning. But one

President Obama declared a state of National Emergency in the U.S. late Friday evening. You may not have heard of it, because it was barely announced. It was done late on Friday evening because that is the time to get

Americans are quickly learning that Obama's policy of bending knee to ruthless dictators and sucking up to every two-bit clown with a couple of tanks and a captive population is a recipe for disaster.Dictators are like schoolyard bullies. They don't

The planned economic collapse of the United States is now almost certainly inevitable. The Obama administration has skyrocketed the federal debt level beyond anything we have previously seen, and his sycophants in Congress are approving new spending bills as fast

My left-leaning acquaintances consistently attempt to convince me that all religions are equally good and equally bad. This is one instance of the doctrine of "moral equivalence."The trouble is, moral equivalence just isn't true. If you and I were to

is a fascinatingly detailed article from CBC News about the costs of gun registration in Canada.It seems that the leftist politicians who wanted the impose "gun" control on the people of Canada promised that it would only cost $2M to

Unscrupulous U.S. Senators have removed much needed funding from the 2010 defense appropriations bill and replaced it with 778 unrequested and unnecessary pork-barrel earmarks designed to buy votes for their reelection campaigns. The earmarks add nearly $2.7B to the bill.The

In a stunning defeat for an administration which is still in the first year of it's term, the Obama administration was forced to back down from it's most recent assault on the First Amendment.The administration had issued a gag order