Now, a Nobel prize winning scientist has called the position taken by the Pope, as endorsed by Barack Obama, "dead wrong". I will not further paraphrase or otherwise highlight the article, as I feel it speaks for itself.
Is Greece our future? No matter how you spin it, the failure of Greece is a failure of leftist economics where Greeks ran out of someone else’s money. The flight from reality was present in their last vote, but it is also a failure of the European Union since the EU has become a super administrative state, and the flight of reality goes as high as Brussels. Read more about Is Greece Our Future?
It's been a little over a week since the Supreme Court granted a ruling making gay marriage the law of the land nationwide. The overused joke is that Facebook feeds have begun to look like a war between the Confederacy and Skittles as either the Confederate (Virginia Battle Flag) Flag or the rainbow flag seem to be a part of every post. Read more about We Will Never Lead by Demanding the World do Something We Will Not
In response to continued obstruction of congressional requests, I along with Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway (R-Texas), offered an amendment to cut the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget. The amendment was offered to a Department of Interior appropriations bill (H.R. Read more about Congressman Smith Amendment Combats EPA Obstruction with Budget Cuts
I hope you had a great Fourth of July surrounded by family and friends. The month of July will be a busy one in the House of Representatives. We are expected to tackle some very important issues as we continue to move forward our policy agenda to make America stronger. Right now, our national debt is over $18 trillion and growing. This means a debt burden of roughly $57,000 per American citizen. We can do better. Read more about The July Agenda
Last week, the economic crisis in Greece continued to unfold when the country failed to make a scheduled debt repayment to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). And just yesterday, in a referendum, the Greeks voted against the terms of a previous bailout from its international creditors that would have brought more stability and economic reforms to the country. Read more about The Greek Economic Crisis
Shark finning is currently banned or regulated in an increasing number of countries and it is time the United States became a leader in the effort to eradicate shark finning permanently. Recently, the United Arab Emirates introduced regulations on abusive fishing practices that are threatening the survival of some shark species. Read more about The Jaws Act