Independence Weekend

Be sure to check out our full-length article on Independence Day, as well as some of our other popular posts from the past:

• Let America be America
• An Open Letter To All Government Officials: I Am Not Sorry
• When America Stumbled

We also recommend you take a few minutes to re-read The Declaration of Independence. Every American should read and understand the list of reasons the colonists had for declaring independence.

ObamaConomy Update

• U.S. Has Paid $1.44 Million for Project That is Studying Male Prostitutes in Vietnam
• White House pays its staff $38,796,307
• Fannie-Freddie Bailout Could Cost Taxpayers $1 Trillion
• Polishing a turd: Obama says US economy ‘strengthening’ despite weak data
• Stocks Drop on Growth Fears
• Jobs Market Barely Budges in June as Hiring Stays Weak
• N Korea seeks $75 trillion from US in compensation
• The Third Depression
• RBS tells clients to prepare for ‘monster’ money-printing by the Federal Reserve
• June Job Losses at 125,000
• 7.9 million jobs lost, many forever
• Unemployment report: Job seekers give up
• Jobless Claims Show American Job Machine Sputtering in Recovery
• Weak private hiring shows tepid recovery
• Weak economic data suggest recovery is fizzling
• Fed Officials Avoid Talk of Further Stimulus to Stoke Growth
• Democrats add teacher money to war funding bill
• CBO says debt will reach 62 percent of GDP by year’s end
• US Stocks Log Worst Quarter in Over a Year

ObamaCare Update

• This is your government running healthcare: VA hospital may have infected 1,800 veterans with HIV
• Health overhaul may mean longer ER waits, crowding
• The Obama administration has not ruled out turning sick people away from government healthcare