Monthly Archives: November 2010
Candidates Corner
Illegal Immigration Becomes a Top Campaign Issue of 2010
Americans for Legal Immigration PAC reported last month that an historic number of campaigns, well over half of all federal campaigns, are addressing illegal immigration as a top campaign issue in the 2010 elections. ALIPAC has surveyed the nation and conducted extensive research on federal campaigns, while building and managing the largest archive of information…
Government Circus
No more double standards
Government officials and grant recipients must also be held accountable for fraud By Paul Driessen False, misleading or fraudulent claims have long brought the wrath of juries, judges and government agencies down on perpetrators. So have substandard manufacturing practices. * GlaxoSmith Klein has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $750-million fine for manufacturing deficiencies…
Heartland Institute
Michigan Ponders Its Energy Producing
Michigan, a state whose economy was driven for more than a century by its oncemighty automobile industry, now has chance to reinvent itself and become one of the nation’s leading suppliers of energy. Whether that happens will depend on decisions by Michigan lawmakers regarding the state’s abundant shale oil and gas deposits. Increasing the state’s…
Gary Wickert
Unions Are Destroying America Part 1 of 2
By Gary Wickert It is a sad irony that the i n d u s t r y organizations which played such a big part in building this country are now playing a major role in destroying it. Labor unions once had a significant purpose in America. Today, they have become just another albatross around…
Steve's Say...
Steve’s Say . . . The Five Fallacies of Logic
Months ago in one of my rants I referred to the five fallacies of logic, promising to define and describe them in detail in some future edition of “Steve’s Say.” After being bombarded by the barrage of political ads in the last weeks of the campaign season, I could not think of a better time…