Politically Direct
How did our country stray so far from the founding principles of limited government, states’ rights, self-reliance and moral integrity?Most Americans blame it on Congress.
Americans have little faith in members of Congress, but we keep re-electing our own congressman and senators, often with little or no serious thought on the matter. Continue reading “Rhode Island’s Lesson for Real Republicans”
Greased pig races used to be quite common. Little piglets were selected for these events and they were next to impossible to catch. Just when you thought you had one in your grasp, it would slip through your fingers and run into the bushes. Instead of a race, it became a game of hide-and-seek.
That’s what has been going on in Washington. During the month of August, there was a search for a couple of pigs in bushes – the two-legged kind, who line up at the public trough and gobble large amounts of tax dollars faster than you can say “government waste.” Last week, they were captured (identified), and now a couple of others are on the loose. This is hide-and-seek coupled with musical chairs. Continue reading “Here Piggy, Piggy!”
Last Thursday, the FDA announced that it has approved over-the-counter sales for “Plan B,” the morning-after pill, which is essentially a mega-dose of the drugs found in birth control pills.
Birth control pills require a doctor’s prescription because they can cause life-threatening problems for women with certain health conditions. A prescription assures that a woman buying birth control pills has been screened to make sure that these pills don’t harm her health or take her life. That is being responsible.
Making mega-doses of this drug available over-the-counter, without a prescription, is not only irresponsible; it is unconscionable! Continue reading “Have They No Shame?”
Everybody needs a “plan B” in case “plan A” doesn’t work. However, few would come up with a plan B that could cause serious harm.Unfortunately, the “Plan B” that Andrew von Eschenbach, President Bush’s nominee to head the Food and Drug Administration, now wants sold over-the-counter to prevent pregnancy could cause serious medical complications for some women. That makes von Eschenbach completely unqualified to lead one of the agencies charged with safeguarding the nation’s health. Continue reading “The President’s “Plan B””
Two weeks ago, I wrote an article entitled “Will the Military Cut and Run on the Homosexual Issue.” It concerned flack over language in a 1996 policy document (reauthorized in 2003) that outlines retirement or other discharge policies for service members. The document, which was unearthed by a gay advocacy group, the Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military, listed homosexuality along with a group of mental disorders as reasons for discharge.The Center used this discovery to orchestrate a media campaign designed to browbeat those in charge of our military to reword the document in order to perpetuate the myth that homosexual activity is normal healthy behavior. Continue reading “Do You REALLY Support the Troops?”
What is a “wetland”?
This is not a trick question, but it is important that we get it right.
It is the key to an issue that goes to the very core of what constitutes a free country: the right to own and control property. Continue reading “A Tricky Question”
What is a “wetland”?This is not a trick question, but it is important that we get it right.
It is the key to an issue that goes to the very core of what constitutes a free country: the right to own and control property.
Most reasonable people would give a simple answer to that simple question: A “wetland” is a wet land – land that is under water at least most of the time. When people think of wetlands they see bogs, marshes and swamps. It’s as simple as what the definition of “is” is, or so it would seem. Continue reading “How ‘Wetlands’ threaten freedom”
Is the military about to “cut and run” over the issue of allowing open homosexuals to serve in our Armed Forces? The answer is “yes.”More correctly, military leaders and those charged with the oversight of the military are about to cut and run.
When it comes to dealing with controversial issues, the men behind the military’s Oz-like “curtain” are not men at all but scared little boys and girls when it comes to standing up to narrow, vocal special-interest groups – especially those that are the darlings of the mainstream media. Continue reading “Will the military “cut and run” on homosexual issue?”
The Environmental Protection Agency is a polluter’s worst nightmare. If there is a toxic waste dump, the EPA is on it like grease on a mechanic. If there is a noxious emission, the EPA gets its nose out of joint faster than ice melts at the equator.
Now, it seems, the agency itself needs a cleanup of sorts. Thanks to some sleuthing at the American Family Association and Concerned Women for America’s Culture & Family Institute, we know that this agency is doing a little polluting of its own by celebrating Gay Pride Month.
Six years into the Bush Administration, your tax dollars are still being used to promote behaviors that many understand to be immoral and profoundly unhealthy. Continue reading “Gay Pride at George Bush’s EPA”
These are dangerous times in Washington. President Bush is trying to chide the House of Representatives into a “compromise” with the Senate on the immigration bill. He wants amnesty for illegal aliens and a horde of new “guest” workers – skilled and unskilled – who will work for half of what employers have to pay American workers, in return for empty promises about securing the border. Behind the scenes, the White House is arm twisting your representative in Congress.
Those looking for a compromise on immigration reform should consider this: Simply annex Mexico. Make it our 51st state. Instead of giving the Mexicans our country, take over their country. Continue reading “The Salsa State”
Jane Chastain 