While most of the media are focused on the Supreme Court rulings about the Affordable Care Act tomorrow, there is another fight in another branch of government that is almost as contentious. In the wake of the Fast and Furious Hearings, Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA), the chair of the committee, determined that Attorney General Eric holder may ( Read more... )

In what can only be described as one of the greatest ironies in modern conservatism, the US Federal government plans to build a fence along the Mexico/Texas border, long a favorite of hard core conservatives, has just hit something stronger than a fence, a property owner who wants to keep her land her own. Apparently, Eloisa Tamez wants to keep her ( Read more... )

It's a little held secret than many cleaning companies use illegal immigrants for the manual labor involved in keeping our world clean. This is not new in America. When colonists first came, they brought indentured servants, later ones brought slaves, later there were illegal immigrants from Ireland, then illegal immigrants from eastern Europe and ( Read more... )

This rant was orignially going to be about something important, but let's cover the first act of legislation passed by the new Congress in the massive "100 hour" campaign they promised the country. Republicans have cried foul saying the Democrats promised to give them more of a voice in running the government than the Republicans gave the Democrats ( Read more... )

Last week, there was a big fight on the Hill about the immigration. In nearly record speed, there was an agreement reached about how illegal immigration would be cracked down on, current illegals could work toward becoming citizens and how to make the process more streamlined. Under a deal in the Senate, those illegals here for more than 5 years ( Read more... )

Diamonds are. . .the source of so many great cliches. A girl's best friend, forever, the only way to show love, so many things in our culture. We all know that diamonds are some of the most precious stones on the planet. Not so much for their rarity, but for their uses. They're pretty and shiny, they are the hardest substance known to man (second ( Read more... )

In the old tradition of war, looting is back in vogue among some of our troops. While technically it is illegal to take property from a war zone area without clearing it through superiors in the chain of command (also called "upchain"). This case, however, revolves around the specific problem of those living in and native to Iraq selling their own ( Read more... )