02.28.2012
Go figure. If you take people’s money and redistribute it, it is always funny to see the people who are “shocked” that this sort of thing happens. Just check out what is going on in Colorado : Debit cards issued to provide assistance to welfare recipients were used to withdraw cash at ATMs in […]
02.28.2012
By Bill Wilson — Speaking to the National Governors Association, Barack Obama implored governors from across the country to stop cutting spending: “Too many states are making cuts that I think are too big. Budgets are by choice, so today I’m calling on all of you: invest […]
02.28.2012
By Rick Manning As originally published at TheHill.com. Human Events political editor John Gizzi got an interesting sidestep by Obama deputy press secretary Josh Earnest on Friday. When queried about Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers’s (R-Wash.) legislation that would rescind the IMF’s ability to access $100 billion directly from the U.S. Treasury without any congressional approvals, […]
02.28.2012
By David Bozeman — Whatever the faults of Rick “take-one-for-the-team” Santorum, the notion that he intends to make this election a referendum on banning birth control is not one of them. In this space, we previously noted that liberalism, which sells itself as the antidote […]
02.27.2012
Kudos to the Chicago Tribune for calling out politicians like Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum who routinely stump on the campaign trail that they will tackle the out of control deficit. In fact, none of these politicians have any plan to […]
02.27.2012
By Albert Maslar — Obamacare is laden with anomalies that are arbitrarily mishandled by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who is the designated implementer of what is to be and how, in Obama’s “Affordable” HealthCare law that is primed to devastate the underpinnings of the economy […]
02.27.2012
By Bill Wilson — According to conventional wisdom, one of the benefits of a weak dollar is that it boosts exports, thereby reducing the trade deficit. But is that true? Since the weak dollar — the world’s reserve currency — also has an inflationary effect all over […]
02.26.2012
By Rick Manning — Mini-riots broke out all over America this past week. Had the nation gone mad while in mourning for Whitney Houston? Perhaps, a nationally important political figure had been imprisoned? No, Nike released a very limited edition $250 tennis shoe. A tennis shoe. Not […]