On Thursday, President Obama delivered a speech on immigration that was an obvious attempt to turn a crisis into an opportunity for Democrats and progressives. It’s impossible to know how many illegal aliens reside in the US. But government estimates – for whatever they’re worth – have ranged over the last decade from 10 to [...]
Politico.com reports that Senator Robert Menendez, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has advice for fellow Democrats running for reelection. Does he want them to promise to resurrect government run health care? NO! Does he advise them to promote other programs from the President’s agenda, including: big tax increases on small businesses? Cap and [...]
Whether we like it or not, we are in a political war to determine what ideology will prevail in the future of America. Will it be the ideology of liberty? Or will it be the ideology of authoritarian control by a self-appointed elite? Last night the authoritarian side lost a battle. But the war is [...]
By now, everyone in America has heard that two days after the terrorist attack on a Northwest Airlines flight, Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security, asserted, absurdly, that “the system worked.” Secretary Napolitano now claims the media took her comment out of context. But a review of the transcript reveals that “system worked” was only [...]
Following are excerpts from The President’s first statement on the Christmas Day terrorist attack on a civilian Airliner, given the third day after the event. On Christmas Day, Northwest Airlines Flight 253 was en route from Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Detroit. As the plane made its final approach to Detroit Metropolitan Airport, a passenger allegedly tried [...]
Earlier today we reported on an attempt by Senate Republicans to amend pending health care legislation with the requirement that it be posted online for Senators and the public to read 72 hours, or three days, in advance of voting. Democrats defeated the amendment. A reader called our attention to a similar effort in [...]
It seems Democrats have learned their lesson. The House Health Care bill, HR 3200 has been online since July, spreading fear and alarm throughout the land as Internet based analysts helped millions of Americans see for themselves the yawning gap between the actual legislation and President Obama’s extravagant, Utopian promises. Tens of thousands of people [...]
As ObamaCare lurched unsteadily toward enactment, Cash for Clunkers burst into the news a second time, and the suffering of cooperative auto dealers reminds us of the great risk we take when granting government authority for our well-being. Car dealers are not sympathetic figures in the American culture. But if they suffer government inflicted financial [...]
As grim Congressmen and Senators face skeptical voters to explain their plans to vote for thousands of pages of legislation they have not read, to empower government officials to run the entire health care industry, the Cash for Clunkers program burst into the news just in time to provide some comic relief. By now most [...]
