Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category

Tax Day. Let’s Have a Tea Party!

Today is April 15th, a date dreaded by the 50 percent of Americans who pay federal income taxes according to Fox News’ Hannity. Of course, a lot of other news agencies are saying that Hannity is perpetuating false information, because the Tax Policy Center has estimated that only 47 percent of American households pay no […]

Abusing the Right to Free Speech

Today’s Headline: Fallen Marine’s Father’s Legal Battle Albert Snyder sued protesters at his son’s funeral and won; now the judgment was been thrown out and he’s ordered to pay protester’s legal fees. Watch this video from Fox News and tell me, when does your right to Free Speech begin to impede on my rights to […]

Black Friday – the Christmas consumerism addiction

Chuck and I have long been of the opinion that the Christmas holidays have gone from being about celebrating the birth of Jesus to being mainly about keeping the U.S. economy in the black – promoted solely for the purpose of encouraging Christmas consumerism. As such, we decided to not exchange Christmas presents, nor buy […]

Tax Day Tea Party

All I can say is “Wow” and “It’s about time!” Have you seen the news regarding the Tax Day Tea Parties organized by www.taxdayteaparties.com going on around the country today? We hadn’t heard anything about them until we watched the evening news and I must say, it’s amazing (and refreshing) to see Americans actually being […]