lafferty news
Your Search Returned 20 tagged news reports
Gun owners should relax
If you’re a hunter who goes into the woods in order to put food on your family’s table, you can relax. Government agents won’t be coming around trying to confiscate your rifle unless you hunt out of season or without the
Tags:
The real mandate
Congratulations to all newly elected representatives. For those candidates and incumbents who lost their elections, thank you for your efforts – by taking such an active part in the process, you helped keep our fragile democracy alive.
Tags:
Hacking and stacking the vote
"Something very strange happened on election night to Deborah Tannenbaum, a Democratic Party official in Volusia County. At 10 p.m., she called the county elections department and learned that Al Gore was leading George W. Bush 83,000
Tags:
Nothing’s foreign about this policy
The third and final presidential debate is over, and it proved one thing: There’s only one foreign policy in American politics today. After 90 minutes of discussing the Middle East and China while ignoring the rest of the world,
Tags:
Half smart: US politics and brain power
The US Census Bureau claims that 308 million people live in America today. Their headcounters probably missed a million heads or so, and maybe another million heads who ducked the census because they prefer not to be counted, so our true
Tags:
Change at the top is no guarantee of changes that matter
I watched what we like to call a “presidential debate” Tuesday night, and I think I understand. I see how easily a strong belief in one political philosophy slides into an us-against-them mentality. I feel the allure of partisanship
Tags:
A not so great debate
They say that 50 million people watched tonight as the first Presidential Debate of 2012 was broadcast out of Denver. I was one of those watchers, because that’s what I do. It was entertaining, in an incredibly boring sort of way, but not
Tags:
The Bill of (no) Rights
You have a right to privacy under the Constitution, but you have very little privacy in your life these days, and the Constitution can’t help you get more. I used to joke with people that because I had been placed on a
Tags:
Two conventions, two circuses
Back in early August, Ralph Nader wrote to the national committees of both the Democratic and Republican parties. In that letter he made a reasonable suggestion: Both parties should give back the $18.2 million in taxpayer money they each
Tags:
Avoiding taxes
“It is time to admit that we are… close to the Chinese communist model of state-sponsored capitalism. It is the corporations that need big government to protect their interests.” ~ Robert Scheer Lindsey
Tags:
