Tim Phillips at Americans for Prosperity summarizes the situation and has links to quick ways to contact your Senator and Representatives. An excerpt:
President Obama finally made it official yesterday: he wants Congress to ignore Senate rules - and the American people - and use a parliamentary trick called ...
A "speech from the throne." That's how Thomas Jefferson viewed public delivery of the annual speech. Starting with Jefferson's presidency, and ending in 1913, a clerk read the president's message to Congress.
How times have changed. Now the president reads the address, but others write it. Nor is the address to ...
From Pajamas Media TV:
"Barack Obama ran an unprecedented Presidential campaign - utilizing the power of design to help secure the seat of the President of the United States of America. However, his iconic emblem, the ever present "O", holds more power than even Obama knows. Bill Whittle points out the ...
Yes, their grimy hands are already on it, and that's the problem. From Patients First:
While millions of Americans spoke up during the summer against a government takeover of health care, Congress has retreated to its bubble and ignored your concerns. We need to remind them we still oppose a trillion ...
Gene Healy of the Cato Institute says it quite well:
The president isn't a benevolent father-protector, charged with the welfare of all creatures great and small — and educators do kids a great disservice if they help promote such a childish notion. Still less was he supposed to be the educator ...
"The 'public plan' will be the only plan" says health care economist Scott Harrington of the proposed government-run health plan. Be suspicious: "public plan" supporters want it to be the only plan.
President Obama uses rhetoric of "choice" and "competition" to push the "public plan." But he has declared his ...
Tad DeHaven at Cato:
Time-out. The administration accurately states that federal spending and debt have increased at a detrimental pace this decade. Then it says we’re in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
And the solution to the economic downturn caused in part by too much spending and debt ...
As published in today's Daily Camera:
Do you want politicians to put you "in it together" with others, or would you prefer to reserve that choice for yourself?
Last Tuesday guest editor Clay Evans wrote that one of President-elect Obama's "great challenges" will be to "bring us together." While defending Social Security, ...
John Stossel writes eloquently on the danger and injustice of deficit spending:
Obama must realize that government has no wealth of its own and that commandeering scarce resources from the private sector only stifles the economy. Deficit spending does this two ways. When the Treasury borrows money, it outbids private borrowers ...
The Daily Camera published my comments on Obama's school choice hypocrisy couple weeks ago:
"We need to focus on fixing and improving our public schools; not throwing our hands up and walking away from them," said President-elect Barack Obama to a teachers' union convention. But when it comes to his own ...
