Political communication in America is largely an effort to influence the perceptions of those who pay little attention to politics by stripping complex concepts and issues down to easily understood  statistics and simplistic soundbites.  In each of his first 33 months in office President Obama suffered because the easily understood Unemployment Rate remained very high.   [...]

The chart compares  GDP growth in recent quarters with the first ten quarters of the decade of strong economic growth, prosperity and job creation that began after President Reagan’s 1982 tax cuts and deregulation initiatives. In the forth quarter (October, November, December) of 2011 Gross Domestic Product, the value of all the goods and services [...]

President Obama opened his angry campaign speech State of The Union message with a brief recap of events in Iraq and Afghanistan, as a prelude to cynically self-serving praise of the troops. These achievements are a testament to the courage, selflessness, and teamwork of America’s Armed Forces. At a time when too many of our [...]

As a public service Liberty Works offers this State of the Union Score Card, a reality check when the President begins to tell America how fortunate we are to be under his authoritarian command “leadership.” When President Obama steps up to the State of the Union teleprompter Tuesday evening his challenge will be obvious: Try [...]

President Obama announced that he will use the power of the Presidency to prevent construction of a pipeline that would carry Canadian crude oil to American refineries in Texas and Oklahoma, even though it would create tens of thousands of jobs, lower energy costs and would be the safest such pipeline ever constructed in America. [...]

Hours after the monthly jobs report was published President Obama was gloating before the cameras.  Unemployment had declined from 8.7% in November to 8.5% in December.  The media herd was gleefully stampeding to a revised narrative:  The economy has improved, boosting the reelection prospects of Barack Obama, the man with no credentials or relevant experience [...]

Columnist Paul Krugman is the theologian of the progressive movement, providing a patina of academic legitimacy to economic policies with fancy names that simply seize income and resources from some citizens in order to transfer them to others.   Krugman published a column on New Years Eve called “Keynes Was Right” wherein he argues – [...]

President Obama’s reelection campaign, begun almost a year ago, is based on blaming the previous administration for America’s economic misery.  But 2011 has been his third full year and it’s time for his Administration to stand on it’s own.  It’s time for an accounting First the debt. [continued below the chart] In 2011 Government debt [...]

Once again President Obama and the Democrats seek to stimulate the base human emotions of envy and resentment by demanding a surtax on “millionaires,” this time to “pay for” another year of temporary reduction in the Social Security payroll tax.  But it doesn’t really matter what they say the tax will “pay for.”  They always [...]

The Labor Department released its jobs report for October: Employers added 80,000 jobs, about 65% of the monthly growth in the working age population. The Unemployment rate remained tragically high, at 9.0%. If the 2011 job growth rate continues it will take until 2016 to replace the jobs lost in 2008 and 2009. The Obama [...]