[i]Security is put in place to provide a tamper-resistant environment. Security does not ensure fraud doesn’t take place, it provides mechanisms for fraud to be prevented through fear of detection; it provides an opportunity to stop fraud while in progress and retroactively, through reverse engineering various aspects of the voting processes. When security is ignored [...]
Obama’s Hidden Tax Hikes
March 5, 2012 By
It could be said that President Obama has never seen a tax hike he doesn’t like — whether it’s letting the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts expire, insisting on higher taxes for job creators, and yesterday calling on Congress to raise taxes on the oil industry. But as much as the President wants to raise taxes, Heritage [...]
Rick, Newt, Mitt: How Did Their CPAC Speeches Stack Up?
February 29, 2012 By
This year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) comes only months prior to a presidential election, one where the GOP is in hopes of retaking the White House. That being true, three of the four main presidential candidates — Santorum, Gingrich, and Romney — took to the podium in an attempt to convince the conservative faithful [...]
Obama’s Friends Win Big in Budget
February 16, 2012 By
You don’t need to log on to President Barack Obama’s Facebook page to find out who his friends are, and you don’t need to read tea leaves, gaze into a crystal ball, or consult a psychic to learn where his priorities lie. No, you only have to take a look at his 2013 budget, just [...]
Dependence on Government Highest in History
February 13, 2012 By
When John F. Kennedy was President, just over a quarter of federal spending went to fund programs paying for some 21.7 million Americans to be dependent on Uncle Sam. But as high as that spending and dependence on the federal government was then, it has exploded today, with one in five Americans — more than [...]
The Myth of GOP Stinginess
February 1, 2012 By
No one is falling for this week’s debt-increase “disapproval” charade, the stage for which was set by last summer’s sleight-of-hand, when Republicans agreed to borrow another $2.4 trillion. As if to prove that Obama has not cornered the market on cynicism, the GOP apparently feels the need to insult your intelligence while it helps our [...]
A Supreme Court shock for Liberals
They’re so convinced of their own correctness — and so determined to believe conservatives are either a) corrupt, b) stupid or c) deluded — that they find themselves repeatedly astonished to discover conservatives are in fact capable of a) advancing and defending their own powerful arguments, b) effectively countering weak liberal arguments and c) exposing [...]