BELLEVUE, WA – Citing concerns about First Amendment erosion based on revelations about covert Justice Department probes of journalists, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today called the government snooping “deplorable, if not despicable.” “It is disturbing that James Rosen, who covers the State Department for Fox News was targeted,” [...]
Where do food stamps come from? They come from taxpayers—certainly not from family farms. Yet the “farm” bill, a recurring subsidy-fest in Congress, is actually 80 percent food stamps and other government nutrition programs. The food stamps sweeten the farm deal for lawmakers, who admit that the combination works for their political purposes. As Heritage [...]
By the Hawaii Republican Assembly - Ten days ago, the Hawaii Republican Assembly provided a chart to show the downward decline of the number of Republicans in our state government. We solicited inputs from our readers on solutions to this alarming trend, because we believe that only through the Hawaii Republican Party can we contest the [...]
By Leighton Loo - Gov. Neil Abercrombie’s $300 million dollar budget surplus is a fake “paper” surplus. The reality is that the state has a massive deficit of at least $483 million! The state’s Employee Union Trust Fund and Employee Retirement System both have a $15 billion and $9 billion shortfall, respectively. Also there is [...]
By Christopher G. Adamo - In a sane world, Barack Obama would already be facing the prospect of impeachment over his mishandling and subsequent cover-up of the Benghazi fiasco. But in a sane world, an inconsequential Illinois state senator who voted overwhelmingly “present” in order to duck hard issues and who then served only a matter [...]
By Steven Greenhut | Franklin Center - The Obama administration has gotten itself into a fix between its contradictory stories about the Benghazi incident, reports of the IRS targeting conservative groups, and the Justice Department’s grabbing of phone records from AP reporters. There are few things more fun to watch than arrogant political leaders — folks who [...]
BY ROBERT THOMAS - This photo and accompanying story ("Volcano officials concerned about risky activity at Kilauea ocean entry") reminded us of an article we did a few years ago about issues of liability in these cases, the "compensation culture," and a famous tort decision by the UK's House of Lords. Our article, "Common Sense and [...]
By Lowell L. Kalapa - A few politicians are a bit bent out of shape because this year’s session of the Hawaii legislature did not approve an increase in the minimum wage, which is perhaps a confirmation of what many have known for a long time, that is that those critics probably never held a real [...]
By KEITH WOMMACK -- Have you ever listened to an advertisement listing the possible side-effects of a drug and then felt queasy? Reading about those effects can make you feel ill, as well. Dr. Lissa Rankin’s recently published New York Times bestseller, Mind over Medicine, in part, examines this disturbing phenomenon. Reading Rankin’s thought provoking book [...]
By Boyd Ready - A Hawaii Republican Assembly (an organization not officially affiliated with the Hawaii Republican Party) graphic published on May 9, 2013 in Hawaii Reporter misstated the actual number of Republican electoral wins and the actual percentage changes for Republican state office holders for the period 1998-2012. Notice how the HRA errors, which go from large to [...]
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