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August 4th Live Show: Super Congress, Market Meltdown and the Tea Party

Show Time: Thursday August 4th, 7pm pacific, 8pm Mountain, 9pm Central, 10pm Eastern Tune In: Plain, Hard Truth Radio Show Call in: Be part of the program – call in to the show: (424) 220-1807 Guests: Nicole Pearce from Truth About Bills. Show Topics: Join Michelle and Rich as they take your calls on the budget [...]

Matt Damon Is Disgusted!

Matt Damon is “so disgusted” with the debt limit and says he doesn’t mind paying more taxes. Oh, what I would give to have a little look-see at his income taxes! I would be willing to bet he took as many write-offs as possible!

“As the Government Turns”

Social Security and Defense Held Hostage, Episode 75 The federal government is our alcoholic uncle addicted to power and money. He throws divisive words at the masses to distract us from the true issue…a bloated government. As political figures and their cohorts spend more money than most countries can produce, hard working Americans are left [...]

Debt Ceiling Deal and Spin

Debt Ceiling Deal and Spin The Debt Ceiling Deal On August 2, 2011, President Barack Obama signed the Budget Control Act, hours after the Senate approved the bill. The bill will raise the debt ceiling by as much as $2.4 trillion. The bill does not cut spending – it will continue to increase, but will [...]

Debt and our failing economy

Is the country being led astray once again by those on the Hill that appear to be doing business as usual? The words deficit and downgrade and debt-ceiling almost seem to be synonymous with one another when nothing could be further then the truth. Yet both sides think they are right; they have resorted to [...]

Obama Gets His Wish

“And The Winner Is”

The Debt Ceiling Deal, the “Trigger,” and Defense Budget Cuts

The Debt Ceiling Deal, the “Trigger,” and Defense Budget Cuts The Deal The “Debt Ceiling Deal,” a compromise negotiated by Republicans and Democrats over this past week-end (30, 31 July, 11) proposes, among other things, a $350 billion cut in the defense budget over the next ten years. That proposal is bad enough, but … [...]

CBO Analysis of August 1 Budget Control Act

On August First, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released this summary of its analysis of the debt limit compromise legislation (amendment to S.365). The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has estimated the impact on the deficit of the Budget Control Act of 2011, as posted on the Web site of the House Committee on Rules on [...]

Small Businessman Asks Washington: “Are All of You Completely Crazy?

A youtube video that has begun its run to viraldome shows Jim Garvin, a small businessman, expressing exactly how the majority of Americans feel right now. Rich Mitchell is the Sr. Managing Editor of Conservative Daily News. His posts may contain opinions that are his own and are not necessarily shared by Anomalous Media, CDN, [...]

Debt Limit Bill – Amendment to S.365 [Full Text]

In the House of Representatives, U. S.,  August 1, 2011.Resolved, That the bill from the Senate (S. 365) entitled `An Act to make a technical amendment to the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002.’, do pass with the following: AMENDMENT: Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:   SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE [...]

Frustrated Democrat: Tea Party Makes it Impossible to Spend Money

Truth is indeed stranger than fiction. Especially when a Democrat Congressmen shares with the American public exactly why the Democrats are so frustrated with the Tea Party. Vice President Biden reportedly compared Tea Partiers to terrorists in  a private meeting with Democrats. While many other Democrats and  media outlets like polico and the New York Times are using the the [...]

Making the Cut

As we all know money is on most everybody’s mind in these hard economic times, coupled with our Congress fighting each other over the debt and spending issues. No one in Congress has put any permanent solutions on the table but Cut, Cap and Balance seemed to be a step in the right direction. The [...]

The Debt “Deal” Is A Bad Idea

For what feels like the millionth time, I am utterly disgusted by the goings on in Washington.  This, of course, is nothing new, but the stakes are much higher this time and I feel like I’m watching a slow-motion train-wreck in action. For weeks, we’ve been warned by Congressional leaders in both parties, and by [...]

Liberalism and Child Play

I’m seeing a certain attitude from the left that I usually see in children. I’m talking actions that could be summed up in childhood hit phrases such as “I know you are but what am I”, “It wasn’t me”, and our dear leader’s favorite, “Lalalalala I’m not listening. Lalalalala.” Thing is, when any grown adult [...]