True Spirit of America Party

On August 2, Congress approved a deal that raises the debt ceiling enough to cover us through 2012 while appointing a bipartisan commission ...

Take off your rose-colored glasses and sit down.  Ready?  OK, here's the truth, warts and all: You know the American economy is doing ...

The President and Congress still have not agreed on the issue of the debt ceiling.  As we have noted before , failure to raise the ceiling b...

Today, our great nation is 235 years old.  Actually it is older than that, but we did not declare independence from Britain until July 4, 17...

The latest news from the 2010 Census shows that, across the board, Americans are having fewer children than they did ten years prior.  Whil...

Just recently, the latest attempt to raise the national debt ceiling failed.  We have already reached the debt ceiling of $14.3 trillion la...

It's now offical, Osama bin Laden, the terrorist who masterminded the 9/11 attacks, is dead .  For real, this time.  We finally got him ...

A new book , Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer , shows what we have known for quite some time now.  For the past...

As we approach our debt ceiling, we need to realize the unsustainability of our current fiscal policies.  Our national debt is a whopping $1...

The title of this post is supposedly an English translation of an  ancient Chinese curse , though obviously not everyone sees it that way.  ...

In these crazy times, it seems that the anti-cannabis movement has finally come full-circle.  I'm sure we have all heard about Reefer Ma...

On January 25, 2011, the President gave his annual State of the Union Address.  The TSAP believes we should start a new tradition--the State...

A year ago, in a previous post , we discussed the relatively new and unfounded scares about third-hand smoke.  This concept is typically def...

The national debt (currently $14 trillion and growing) is about to reach its ceiling of $14.3 trillion, probably by March 31 of this year. ...

On January 8, 2011, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in Tuscon, AZ, along with several other people.  While she survived after bei...

On January 7, 2011, for the first time in nearly half a century, the federal government has reviewed recommended fluoride levels in drinking...

It's official.  The tax cut extension deal has passed .  What does this mean?  It means all of the Bush tax cuts will remain another t...

The Feral Reserve is at it again.  They have decided to create $600 billion to $1 trillion completely out of thin air.  Gold and oil are on...

Unfortunately, it seems that "California Dreaming" did NOT become a reality in 2010 like we had hoped.  Proposition 19, the ballot...

Election day (November 2) is less than a month away.  And it will be a pretty interesting day for sure. Despite it being an "off-year...