This has been an extraordinary week. The people have spoken twice – both against the leadership. In the United States Senate, the leadership of both parties by and large was on one side. The people, as reflected by the Senators who cast votes on that final cloture roll call, were with the people. In the House of Representatives all the leaders of the Majority Party voted against the wishes of the people. ALL of the leaders of the Minority Party were with the people. The people prevailed. Over 100 Members of the Majority Party joined every member of the Minority Party to prevail in lopsided fashion. In my more than four decades in our Nation’s Capital I never remember a day such as we had last week.

Craig Crawford of Congressional Quarterly, a news analyst for NBC, MSNBC and CNBC, warns that “Unless broadcasters take steps to voluntarily balance their programming, they can expect a return of fairness rules if Democrats keep control of Congress and win the White House next year.”

When it comes to public policy victories, conservatives are gonna have a tough time topping last week.  So let’s recap.  We don’t get opportunities like this very often.

Good For The Country - Let me add to the June 20th, 2007, CollegiateTimes.com article, States look at gun policies, debate on-campus weapon carry. It’s positively encouraging because it reports on a movement sweeping the nation. The bottom line on the question will be public policy and interest.

An official delegation from the U.S. Government actually signed a U.N. document that says:

“Private land ownership is a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice....  Public control of land use is therefore indispensable....”

Harlingen, Texas, June 22, 2007:  One hates to think Americans are gullible and self serving, but that observation is proven itself true in election after election.  Even though we all know that our government is completely dysfunctional, deceptive, and devoid of principle, we still keep electing the same failed politicos, offering up new versions of failed policies and placing these proven fumblers and failures back into seats of power.

In the early 20th Century the temperance movement was in high gear.  Slowly, county after county then state after state passed laws prohibiting the manufacture, distribution and consumption of alcohol within their borders.  The excuse of the temperance movement was that alcohol was evil and a threat to the public health and those claims were eventually ramrodded down the throats of the whole of the American people in the form of the 18th Amendment.  Even in those days, those that would become the modern liberals of today were trying to mold society to their whims.

For more than 20 years, illegal aliens have crossed the U.S. border by the millions, and have successfully avoided thousands of law enforcement officials whose job it is to capture and remove the illegals from the United States.  Government has utterly failed to locate, capture, or remove the illegals.

It fact, some believe it’s here now.

For many years, the Government Accounting Office has reported that weaknesses in information security are a widespread problem with potentially devastating consequences --such as intrusions by malicious users, compromised networks, and the theft of personally identifiable information—and has identified information security as a governmentwide high-risk issue. 

In a recent speech(1), Hillary Clinton described the Bush administration as a “government of the few, by the few, and for the few.” She’s wrong; the Bush government is bigger than the Clinton government.  Nevertheless, the government she described might be the government Thomas Paine had in mind when he observed: “That government is best which governs least.”

Never before has there been a more poignant case than presently exists for the current level of disillusionment and cynicism amongst Americans or reason for their fundamental misgivings concerning the legitimacy of the Federal government as a whole.

Call it morbid curiosity. I recently reread an article written a while back by Zev Chavets, a columnist for the New York Daily News, titled “Captured al-Qaida commander will sing like a bird.” Referring, of course, to Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.

Patriotic Organizations operate in the public interest, and because of this, the United States Government has seen fit to make them tax exempt. Most Americans agree with this because supporting such organizations is a vote of a sort, you might say, where donations to a non-profit charity of their choice are the voice of the supporters. Weight to that vote is given meaning by being unfettered with things such as taxing the donation. Instead, it is tax deductible.

Last Wednesday the House of Representatives passed legislation instituting penalties of up to $150 million for companies and up to $2 million and 10 years’ imprisonment for individuals found guilty of gasoline “price gouging.” But the real gouger driving up gasoline prices is not the private sector, it is our government.