While the military continues its push for diversity, it isn't getting much help from some key members of Congress, who represent heavily minority districts across the country. An Associated Press review of service academy appointments over the past five years reveals that lawmakers from the nation's major urban areas--New York, Chicago and Los Angeles--rank at or near the bottom in the number of students...
Bob Weir at American Thinker has some thoughts: What this country needs is a strong conservative leader with the courage of her convictions. Sensing those qualities in Sarah Palin, the liberal left is becoming frantic because they can't seem to halt her popularity. The reason they're panicking is because they're afraid of her connection with regular folks who work for a living, pay their taxes, attend...
Forty five trade associations from twenty nine preference and free trade area countries on November 16th urged Congress to reject proposals to grant duty free access to Bangladesh and Cambodia for textiles and apparel. The trade groups included major exporters from North and South America, Africa and the Middle East that depend on existing trade preferences and free trade agreements for over $30 billion...
Your humble correspondent has just returned from the Caribbean paradise of Culebra. Politics were far from my mind as I snorkled the Culebran reefs. However, on my way home, I picked up a copy of the Puerto Rico Daily Sun in the western outskirts of San Juan and a certain story by Robert Friedman of their Washington, D.C. bureau caught my eye because it had the word "rum" in the title: "Debate...
In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, the Bush Administration set out to determine the new path for our nation in order to provide better security from an enemy which was beholden to no nation, no borders, no rules, no sense of morality, and hell bent on killing Americans regardless of their status as citizen or military. An enormous task to say nothing else. Unfortunately for America, opponents...
CHARLES RANGEL UPDATE: Rangel, meanwhile, has attracted criticism in recent weeks for lining his campaign coffers with donations from those on both sides of the contentious rum-tax issue. Contributions to Rangel from the Virgin Islands totaled more than $167,000 between 1999 and 2008, and more than half of that — $84,800 — was given during the 2007-08 [...]
As though we needed more evidence that the Stupak amendment was a sham, and was allowed by Pelosi in order to provide just enough cover for Blue Dogs to jump on the bandwagon at the last minute, there's this. Via the Hill : Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the Democrats' chief deputy whip in the House, said that she and other pro-choice lawmakers would work to strip the amendment included in...
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I had the pleasure of reading a final finished copy of The Dollar Meltdown by Charles Goyette this past week. Congressman Ron Paul offers an opinion on the front cover to which I certainly concur: "Goyette does a great job explaining why America faces a looming financial crisis and outlines commonsense strategies for individuals to protect themselves and their families. This book truly is a must...
Too much. Tax cheat Charles Rangel (Dem-NY) says he won’t answer Rep. John Boehner’s question because he doesn’t want to violate House Ethics laws. From today’s House debate on nationalized health care: Rep. Charles Rangel failed to report as much as $1.3 million in outside income on financial-disclosure forms he filed between 2002 and 2006. Just remember… [...]
The Rules Committee will meet today at 2pm to discuss the House health care reform bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, HR 3962. It will aired be live on C-SPAN 2. [Ed. Note: FDL News Desk will also be covering this Rules Hearing.] 2:06 – Rep. Charles Rangel begins by reading on opening statement in [...]
Redistributing whose wealth? BY: Burt Prelutsky For some peculiar reason, America's left-wingers object to being called socialists. In fact, we have only one member of Congress, Vermont's Bernie Sanders, who has the gumption to admit he is one. Still, so far as I can tell, he's no more socialistic than any of the other leftist pinheads in Washington. I mean, the truth is, Henry Waxman, Nancy Pelosi,...
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Charles Rangel is likely to be cleared on one of a half-dozen ethics charges, it was reported yesterday. Rangel and four other members of the Congressional Black Caucus may be exonerated of allegations of rule violations stemmin...
Rep. Charles Rangel’s supporters believe race might be playing a role in the embattled veteran Harlem Democrat's mounting troubles with the House ethics committee , the DN's Michael Saul reports. “We know that when a person reaches - particularly a person of African descent - this kind of position in power, on behalf of all poor people....that represents a real threat to, I think, not...
Filed under: Opinion , Politics , Race and Civil Rights Wait a minute now. Unless I'm reading it wrong, it looks like racial profiling has jumped from the 'hood to Capitol Hill. According to a Politico article , the House Ethics Committee is actively investigating seven African American lawmakers under full-scale ethics probes, but not a single white person serving in Congress is under the same kind...
African-American politicians have long complained that they’re treated unfairly when ethical issues arise. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are still fuming over Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to oust then-Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) from the House Ways and Means Committee in 2006, and some have argued that race plays a role in the ongoing efforts to remove Rep. Charles Rangel...
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