If you don’t know why, then you’re reading the wrong blog. The New Agenda is keeping tabs on sponsors of David Letterman’s show. I have already told T-Mobile that I will cancel may $120 month service (paying the penalty) if they don’t stop advertising on The Late Show by July 15. Top names on the… [Read more…]
June 9, 2009
Lefty Blogger Political Incest Since the November elections, Missouri state government has been infested with former left-wing bloggers, according to 24th State. More news on the revolving door between FiredUp and Nixon/Carnahan junta to follow on 24th State blog. Conservative Heartland Leadership Conference Dana Loesch and Bill Hennessy were privileged to participate in a Social… [Read more…]
June 9, 2009
It’s not a sale. It’s not a party. It’s not a day off work. It’s a memorial to those who placed freedom, liberty, and dignity above the tiny distractions of life. We memorialize the moments of our heroes’ lives–moments that defined their legacy in God’s book. They raised their hands and swore to defend their… [Read more…]
June 9, 2009
While the Tea Party movement was and remains non-partisan, the dangers to freedom posed by this man, Barack Obama, are too serious to protect his name with euphemisms. The Tea Party movement is the only active resistance to this administration’s dictatorial seizure of power. Today, a government official leaked plans for a permanent government takeover… [Read more…]
June 9, 2009
In "Blink*" Malcolm Gladwell explains the human mind’s remarkable ability to arrive at truth instaneously. The book’s first story involves a Greek statue scientifically proven to be authentic . . . except that every human expert who sees it instinctively knows something’s wrong. Turns out, of course, that the humans are right and science is… [Read more…]
June 9, 2009
One single legislative act will stop government overspending in its tracks. In 1978, Representative Jack Kemp (R-NY) proposed legislation (which had no chance of passage in Tip O’Neill’s Democrat Congress) designed to stop the government from defrauding investors with inflation: bond indexing. The measure would have the additional value of discouraging government spending. Ronald Reagan… [Read more…]
June 9, 2009
In the battle between conservatives and statists, a fundamental difference seems to lie in the meaning of a concept found in the Declaration of Independence: Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed[.] The dispute is how men convey consensual powers to their government. Conservatives believe that governmental… [Read more…]
June 9, 2009
The statists are moving faster through the Constitution than Hitler moved through France. Today, Democrats in the House of Representatives voted to advance a bill to socialize medicine without debate. House Democrats went on record again in favor of advancing the legislation while allowing only limited debate, which would hobble the ability of Republicans to… [Read more…]
June 9, 2009
**Scroll for Updates** Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp wanted to index everything, especially Treasury notes and taxes. By "indexing," we mean tying rates (interest and tax) to the inflation rate. Calls for indexing subsided after Reagan and Volcker did what Ford and Carter could not: whip inflation now. With a $2 trillion deficit this year… [Read more…]
April 18, 2009
This is my last post on Hennessy’s View, at least for some time. My work for the St. Louis Tea Party movement is very important to me and, in my opinion, to you. Our government is moving quickly to obliterate all vestiges of the free market republic that America once was. With the Republican… [Read more…]
April 17, 2009
The American Nazis are holding a rally on the Arch grounds at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 18. The Anti-Defamation League is sponsoring a counter-rally in Forest Park at the same time. I will be at Forest Park. So I have some strong disagreements with some of the sponsoring organizations of the counter-rally. Big deal.… [Read more…]
June 14, 2009
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