Tying criminal code with tax code is problematic. However well intentioned those rules are, they usually do not serve the purpose, those usually backfire. To quote from the following Financial Express news item – "He (the finance adviser) said the government will allow disclosure of all legally earned untaxed income under the existing law provided […]
Impotence of the Democrats
What follows is an unflattering critique of America’s Democratic Party from one of its own. The party’s primary problems (no pun intended) sabotage its wannabe image as the Party of Change. What change? It appears to be run by well meaning if impotent, insulated and financially settled yuppies who freeze up in the […]
Chertoff Leaps Legal Barriers in Race to Finish Border Fence Before Year’s End
The Bush administration will use two waivers to skirt barriers that have thwarted its plans to finish building 670 miles of fence along the southwest US border by the end of this year. The project is nearly half finished, with 309 miles completed mid-March, but laws, regulations and environmental challenges have prevented 267 of the […]
Has Operation Jump Start Been Effective?
The National Guard will withdraw from the Mexican border in July 2008 according to the timetable established in the Operation Jump Start (OJS) program. The Guardsmen have been augmenting the work of Border Patrol since OJS began in mid-2006. Through January, the program has cost more than $1 billion. The Guard performed as ordered in […]
McCain Stiffs U.S. Workers, Helps Europeans Win Air Tanker Deal
by James Parks, Mar 12, 2008 At a time when American jobs are disappearing and our manufacturing base is being decimated, working people are outraged that Republican presidential nominee John McCain played a key role in the Bush Defense Department’s decision to award one of our largest military contracts to a foreign company. Had Boeing […]
Build Your Own Water Garden
If the idea of a tranquil woodland pond in your own back yard appeals to you, go ahead and create one! With materials available today, in about a month you could have a peaceful water garden, reflecting billowy white summer clouds, just a short walk away. Creating that garden is no more difficult nor expensive […]
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