There are currently 600 bills on the desk of California governor Jerry Brown waiting to be signed. Yes, you read that right- 600 bills. In a state gridlocked with overregulation and arbitrary laws, the legislature has decided what is needed the most is more regulation! This should hardly be a surprise to anyone who [...]
I can’t wait until the Tea Party Movement is over! That’s right, I said it. Not because I hate the Tea Party. To the contrary, I love the Tea Party. I am the Tea Party. I am a young, middle class mother who is alarmed at the disastrous habits of an oversized government and feels [...]
I first came to America at 10 years old to meet my father in Washington D.C. That trip was momentous for a couple of reasons, the first being that I was finally meeting my father 10 years after he left my pregnant, Canadian mother. The other reason being that I was also meeting for the [...]
I used to think of conservatism as the Dark Side. Growing up in socialist Canada, the daughter of agnostic/atheist hippies, I developed a real disdain for the ideology of conservatism. When I moved to America for good in 1992, I only had my ideas bolstered by a media that hated Ronald Reagan and painted every [...]
Ten years ago, my husband and I found out we were going to have our first baby. We were thrilled, excited and nervous. I, especially, had mixed feelings about becoming a parent. I knew I wanted to have a family. I knew I wanted to create what I had never had growing up – a [...]
Last night was Wisconsin’s “Super Recall Tuesday” and the whole country watched with baited breath. Six Republicans faced Democrat challengers in race to control the state Senate. Public employee unions and other Democrat voters had hoped to win at least three seats, flip the Senate and wrest control away from the GOP with the ultimate [...]
The battle for Wisconsin is still raging, nearly 6 months after a historic battle between unions, Democrats & Republicans that included Democrat representatives fleeing the state to avoid voting on a collective bargaining bill and budget cuts, and union protesters flooding the state capital for days, leaving behind millions of dollars in damages. The budget [...]
