In an Editorial article, of the New York Times, a very interesting mention of Senator Harry ‘Hands Up’ Reid’s, Senate Majority Leader, lack of ability to properly lead the Senate appeared.
“The most vivid symbol of the Senate’s ineptitude was the majority leader, Harry Reid, who tried to make the best of a terrible two weeks [...]

America sees decline in number of illegal aliens
Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 8/3/2008  
An immigration think tank says recent stepped-up immigration enforcement and the sagging U.S. economy appear to be the major factors for an estimated 11-percent decline in the illegal alien population since last summer.                 
   The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) has released the findings of its new [...]

Here’s the floor speech of GOP Rep. David Davis of Tennessee (video here):
“We need an American energy plan and we need it now. The American people are hurting, young families are hurting, senior adults are hurting, small businesses are hurting, Vern from Jefferson County, Tennessee is hurting.
“Vern is an Iraq War veteran. Vern has to [...]

Submitted by: Elaine Karsner
It’s Mea Culpa Week
By Michael Reagan
August 1, 2008 
Like altar boys who used to strike their breasts and mutter “mea culpa” (”through my fault”) during the beginning of the Latin mass while confessing that they had sinned, Democrats are in full confessional mode, apologizing for every real or imagined sin against a [...]

Submitted by: Elaine Karsner
Pork king’s troubles should spur reform

Mobile Register - Friday, August 01, 2008

UNTIL TUESDAY, Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens was known mainly for his skill in bringing home the bacon for his state.
But he achieved a new type of notoriety when a federal grand jury indicted him on charges of making false statements to [...]

Emergency: Immigration Subcommittee Votes Today on Foreign Worker Importation Bill
Updated Thursday, July 31, 2008, 3:15 PM 
Today, the Immigration Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee will vote on a bill (H.R.5882) that would offer more than 500,000 additional permanent visas for foreign workers. These are simple “skilled” visas, where an individual doesn’t need any specialized training [...]

From GRASSFIRE July 29, 2009 
Call your Congressmen
I am asking every Grassfire team member to call their two Senators
and their Rep and tell them you want the ban on offshore drilling
lifted BEFORE the end of the week!
Talking Points:
#1 — I demand that Congress take action to lift the ban on drilling
      on the Outer [...]

Tell Congress: End America’s Dependence on Foreign Oil!
 
President Bush on July 14 lifted the executive ban on drilling for oil on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).  But Congress has its own moratoria on drilling on the OCS and in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR), and lawmakers must act to open up more domestic sources of energy to bring down [...]

July 28, 2008

Reid makes latest offer
in standoff over energy policy
 
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid offered his Republican colleagues four amendments to an oil speculation bill Monday afternoon, hoping to break the ongoing congressional stalemate over how to address high gas prices.
Reid offered the GOP amendments on nuclear energy, drilling on the coast and on lifting the Congressional ban on offshore drilling [...]

Alternative Energy, Alternative Doomsday
Phil Harris
Monday, July 28, 2008
If you live under the false premise that doomsday will never come, some basic laws of nature (concerning energy) may be appropriate for you to note. Roughly speaking, since I am no physicist and neither are most of you, Entropy is the tendency of a system to move [...]