Replacing Congresswoman Ginny Brown-Waite in 2010, Representative Richard B. Nugent is best known as the Sheriff of Hernando County, Floria. Before representing the state’s 5th congressional district, Sheriff Nugent made a name for himself by balancing the budget for law enforcement and updating the sheriff’s department’s technology and computer system. Supported by the Tea Party, [...]

According to a Rolling Stone article published Wednesday, Texas National Guard Lt. Colonel Michael Holmes alleged that his unit tool part in psychological activities to influence lawmakers visiting the state to support additional troops and funding for the war in Afghanistan.
In response, Gen. David Petraeus, top commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan has ordered an [...]

If you don’t support health care reform, you want me to die.
First off, I just want to remind everyone that the “HEALTH CARE BILL”  will be the “HEALTH CARE LAW” within about 48 hours. It’s over. Done. Deal with it, you selfish bastards who don’t support it.
Now, the reason I point out that you want [...]

President Obama is scheduled to be in attendance for the start of the Climate Summit in Copenhagen. He has stated that he will personally commit the United States to a substantial reduction in greenhouse gases.
Obama reportedly will insist that the United States is ready to take on global warming, despite resistance in Congress over projected [...]

As debate rages on between the merits of one healthcare bill vs. another, and as the Democrats and Republicans trade political barbs as to their true motivation for wanting to pass healthcare reform, perhaps the ideal compromise lies in the idyllic Green Mountains of Vermont.
Vermont seems to have achieved on a state level what appears [...]

The news yesterday was that the Senate’s global warming bill is stalled in committee, about one month in advance of the Climate Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009.
The Senate bill, sponsored by Senators John Kerry of Massachusetts and Barbara Boxer of California, proposes to curtail greenhouse gas emissions by way of a cap and trade [...]