Washington's latest bailout of bleeding state governments, $26 billion
worth, has gotten attention because, among other things, almost half the
bailout is financed by cutting $12 billion from food stamps.
The "Ground Zero" Mosque project should not go forward and let's hope that Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf that is behind this $100 million project gets this message and backs off.
In August of 2005, Houston investment banker Matt Simmons predicted in a New York Times feature article that the price of oil, then $65/barrel, would soar.
A delegation of 20 black mayors representing the National Conference of Black Mayors arrived in Washington, DC to lobby congress to pass legislation to promote "clean energy."
A cab ride in Washington, DC on a weekday afternoon in June gives you a feeling of the national mood. It's oppressively hot and humid and the traffic is horrible. By the time you reach your destination, you feel strangled and oppressed and just want relief.
The anti-political establishment sentiment that is gripping the country reflects something more basic that is going on. What we have is a national renewal movement - a search and discovery mission by Americans to restate and restore those first principles that define us.