How Not to Waste a State Budget Crisis
Shortly after the 2008 Presidential election, President-elect Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, told the Wall Street Journal, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”...
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Long-term Healthcare, Long-term Deficits
In a January 2008 debate among Democratic presidential candidates, Barack Obama promised that his healthcare reform plan would be debated publicly, “not negotiating behind closed doors … and broadcasting...
Consumer Protection or Consumer Prying?
It seems that every day we learn of some new horror in the financial reform bill currently before Congress. This is not surprising given that the Senate version of...
Have a DNA Sample on the House
“Millions of Americans arrested for but not convicted of crimes will likely have their DNA forcibly extracted and added to a national database, according to a bill approved by...
Woody Allen’s “Dictatorship,” Starring Barack Obama
Perhaps it’s his experience as writer, director, and star of several hit movies that has led Woody Allen to prefer one-man operations. That might explain why he told the...
Tweaking Social Security Won’t Solve Its Problems
According to the Associated Press, “Social Security faces a $5.3 trillion shortfall over the next 75 years.” Yes, you read that correctly: FDR’s version of Otto von Bismarck’s socialist...
Obama Seeks $205 Million for Israel’s Defense
CNN reported May 14 that “the White House is asking Congress to approve $205 million to help Israel build a new short-range rocket defense system” called the Iron Dome...
Senate Gives Fed Power to Regulate Debit-card Fees
In the world of American business — the one practically every politician and pundit will tell you is a laissez faire environment — if one doesn’t like the terms...
Afghanistan: Still Getting Worse Before It Gets Better
The United States invaded Afghanistan in October 2001. Six years later then-Senator Barack Obama, in a speech entitled “The War We Need to Win,” called Afghanistan “the right battlefield”...
ObamaCare Already Exceeds Projections
Benjamin Franklin famously said that the only two certainties in life are death and taxes. It’s time to add another certainty to that list: Any government program will end...
Shock and Awe, Obama-Style
“Shock and awe” is how the Pentagon described the opening stages of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq: overwhelming force designed to demoralize the enemy into surrendering. Having witnessed...
The TSA’s Big Lie Exposed
Remember the Transportation Safety Administration’s repeated assurances that their full-body scanners at airports would not show the most intimate details of a person’s anatomy? Well, NBC reported that one...
A Gay in the Life of Archie Andrews
It’s getting so you can’t trust anything marketed as family-friendly entertainment these days. Disney, a holdout against the coarsening of popular culture for more than a decade after its...
Dobson Endorses Rand Paul for Senate
Dr. James Dobson, founder and former chairman of Focus on the Family, has endorsed Rand Paul, son of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), in the race to succeed retiring Sen....
Politicians Plead: The Fifth Amendment Does Not Apply to Suspected Terrorists
The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads, in part: “No person ... shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived...