Healthcare Reform: A Cautionary Tale

By Teresa Trujillo | 08/04/09

I don’t know if many of you have been the victim of any one of this country’s many bureaucracies, but I have. I don’t want millions of Americans to be subject to a government agency that is unable and/or unwilling to help Americans live their best lives. Healthcare is an intimate part of most of our lives. Yet, congress wants to insert the government thoroughly into some of the most intimate decisions we make. I want to tell... read more »

Environmentalism is the New Colonialism

By Teresa Trujillo | 06/09/09

Al Gore is on Capital Hill this week promoting his “green” business interests to combat global climate change. Al Gore and the charlatans of global warming are the only ones seeing any green in the new “green economy.” Read more here. Four centuries ago, European kings sent ships around the world to colonize cultures and people who they deemed to be savages. Rich cultures in the new worlds were decimated by disease,... read more »

Arnold Should Resign

By Teresa Trujillo | 05/13/09

Californians are the highest taxed constituency in the United States. Our pocket books, paychecks, and cash register reciepts tell us every day that the state spending spree must stop. Proposition 1A-1F are poised to go down in flames next week. They should be defeated because they were designed by the legislature to disguise the out-of-control California state spending.  The voters haven't been fooled by the doomsday prophecies and we... read more »

Vicente Fox Touts North American Union in Speech

By Teresa Trujillo | 03/30/09

Vicent Fox, past president of Mexico, visited the University of Texas, San Antonio last week to discuss Mexican/American international relations and, to the surprise of many, the North American Union (NAU). The North American Union would be a trilateral agreement between Mexico, Canada, and the United States to join economic forces similar to the European Union (EU). NAU would remove barriers to trade and create a unified currency like the... read more »

Hillary's Mexico Blunders

By Teresa Trujillo | 03/30/09

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her staff are doing a wonderful job of making the United States Department of State look like the Ringling Brother's Clown College. Last week's diplomatic trip to Mexico followed the script already written on Hillary's first diplomatic trip to Russia, where the Secretary presented the Russian president with a big red button gag gift. Mrs. Clinton said her staff had worked hard to translate the word... read more »

Obama Envoy: US to take lead role in climate change

By Teresa Trujillo | 03/30/09

The Associated Press is reporting that the U.S. envoy to a two week climate change conference in Germany is promising that the United States is ready to take the lead in the climate change debate. Climate change is the new buzz word for what used to be called global warming by former Vice President Al Gore. The change in terminology is because there is clear and irrefutable evidence that the globe is actually cooling, and it has been for the... read more »

The Solution is Easy--Abolish Medicare, Welfare, and Social Security

By Teresa Trujillo | 03/27/09

Out of the Box: Substantive Entitlement Reform On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that China, the largest holder of American debt, has presented a plan to the World Bank to create one international currency. If this news hasn't shook America's belief in itself as a strong nation, it's because too many of the electorate don't understand what the implications are of this attack on a devalued dollar.... read more »

America's Newspaper, New York Times, Asks for Pay Concessions

By Teresa Trujillo | 03/27/09

The economic downturn combined with the continuing decline in newspaper print advertising is affecting even the "nation's newspaper." The New York Times is asking for 5% pay concessions from its employees.The planned 5 percent pay cut for nine months, coupled with an additional 10 days of leave, would apply to most employees at the largest units, including The Times and the corporate offices, and to most nonunion employees at The... read more »

Obama off the TelePrompter: He Bowls Like "Special Olympics" & More

By Teresa Trujillo | 03/20/09

Last night Obama appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. In the unscripted 35 minute interview he described his prowess on the White House bowling alley as, "like Special Olympics, or something," he said. Is our president is an insensitive dolt? It certainly looks like it. During the campaign Obama was trying to show the voters that he was a regular guy and visited a bowling alley where he threw a well documented gutter ball. The White... read more »

When Does the Campaign Stop and the Governance Begin?

By Teresa Trujillo | 03/18/09

The president will visit Orange County, California today. One of the most conservative bastions in the nation is in the spotlight as the forty-fourth President of the United States tries to sell his economic stimulus package to the nation. He is visiting a county where six out of the seven congress members voted against the stimulus. Only Democrat Loretta Sanchez supported additional government bailout and unprecedented spending as a band-aid... read more »