With the 2008 election cycle in full swing, it’s hard to turn on the television or open a newspaper without finding liberal politicians, professors, pop stars, and pundits blaming the world’s problems on America’s free enterprise system, its democratic tradition, and its core values of individualism and self-reliance. But how sincere are they about their [...]

Sunday, 21 September 2008 By Pfc. Adam Carl Blazak
11th Public Affairs Detachment
KHARMAR — When he speaks, they want to listen. That is how respected Sheik Fares Mohammad Al Taha is to his people of the Al Jehaishi tribe. So when Iraqi Soldiers stopped by to deliver food and water to his village, [...]

Apparently my name is Steve and I know this because Polarik at Free Republic told me so.
Nice try, Steve, but nobody knows your style of writing, its tenor, its phrasing, its grammar and syntax, better than I do. Probably even more than you know it yourself. Lying about who you really are is not [...]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s call for an investigation of Wall Street failures — Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers — connected to the subprime mortgage mess are aimed in the right direction.
But her targets –Wall Street firms and the Bush administration –miss the biggest culprits: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the Democratic Congress and its insiders in [...]

Fiscal Fact No. 145
The accounting firm KPMG has released its annual survey of corporate and indirect tax rates for 2008, and what it says about America’s tax competitiveness is not good. The survey shows that the U.S. continues to have one of the highest overall corporate tax rates in the world. Of the 106 countries [...]

Fiscal Fact No. 144
Both candidates for President have spoken a great deal about the nation’s health care system, focusing on high costs and the large number who go without health insurance coverage. Health care costs continue to rise more rapidly than incomes, and the number of adults without health insurance persists at roughly 45 million. [...]