With as many times as I’ve ranted about the 17th Amendment and the damage it has done to our Republic on this and other blogs, I was beginning to think that there was some conspiratorial omission of this subject from the national dialogue. I’ve heard George Will discuss it once recently, but not in the [...]

Senator Jim Bunning, courageously held a one man filibuster this week against the Reid-Obama machine against unfunded deficit spending. Bunning’s position was painted by the liberal press as being against funding extended unemployment benefits but, of course, his actual position would never correctly covered, which was as follows: fine, extend the benefits, but PAY FOR [...]

** I guess I misunderstood that which Beck would be addressing in the scope of his documentary, although it was interesting – especially for anyone not familiar with the antics of Che, or Stalin’s starvation of the Ukraine, it really didn’t focus at all on the progressive movement, which I’d have sworn I heard him [...]

I have re-installed all of my theme files and believe I have closed the door on the point of entry that hacker used to get in. Time will tell, but if I see anything suspicious, I’ll close down the site and establish a new theme – basically start from scratch, not too big of a [...]

Apparently, Ron Paul also believes the 17th Amendment to be a bad idea. I didn’t know that until I saw this video with Judge Napalitano on EarthFrisk blog. It’s kind of lengthy, but Paul gets to the point before the halfway point. If you’ve read my 17th Amendment posts, you’ll already know that I believe [...]

* Back from the Boise Tea Party, I was stunned by how many people were there.  I will post some more images on another page on the site. -OMB Just  a PSA for our local Tea Party folks who have worked hard to put this together, please visit the Tea Party Boise site for details. [...]

George Will wrote a column in the Washington Post, within which he called on Senator Feingold to call for the repeal of the amendment, rather than a modification for situations in which a replacement Senator must be chosen by a Govenor, as was the case in the recent Blago debacle.  You can read his comments [...]

  “The system is broken” and, paraphrasing, ‘it corrupts the people we send to Washington D.C.’.   Sen. John McCain has said this, or something to this effect, literally hundreds of times in the media over the last ten years – sometimes followed by “We need meaningful campaign finance reform.”  From this rhetoric spawned the [...]