Barack Obama’s deal with the president of Mexico to allow Mexican trucks to carry their loads onto U.S. highways and roads is new evidence of his high-handed solo behavior that has become Standard Operating Procedure in the Administration.
Continue reading →The Democratic Senate is itching to pass a bill that will mean death for innovation, which is the backbone of American economic growth.
Continue reading →Demoting all major economic and corruption problems facing our country to the bottom of the agenda, the House devoted a long afternoon and 12 roll-call votes to passing a bill to force U.S. statehood on Puerto Rico.
Continue reading →The Massachusetts plan has increased costs. It has wasted taxpayer dollars. It has limited patients’ choice.
Continue reading →ou are sitting in a doctor’s waiting room with eight other sick patients and the nurse announces: The doctor will see all of you now — at the same time.
Continue reading →When President Bush wanted to avoid answering questions about whether the Security and Prosperity Partnership is the prelude to a North American Union connected by a three-country superhighway, he accused SPP critics of believing in a conspiracy.
Continue reading →Those who seek to understand what’s behind the chatter about Bush’s Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) as a possible prelude to a North American Union (NAU), similar to the European Union (EU), should read the 35-page White Paper published recently by the prestigious Hudson Institute called “Negotiating North America: The Security and Prosperity Partnership.”
Continue reading →The three-nation summit at Montebello, Quebec, was held behind closed doors, well guarded behind an intimidating fence and plenty of police, but the news conference that followed on August 21 revealed more than the three heads of state had planned.
Continue reading →Canada in the summer and Mexico in the spring offer good weather for planning international policies. Nervousness about the political weather, however, is putting the third Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit on August 20-21 at a site where the uninvited can be easily excluded: the Fairmont Le Chateau Montebello resort about 50 miles outside of Quebec.
Continue reading →Grassroots Americans of all parties and economic classes rose up out of their political apathy a few months ago and forced President Bush to reverse his administration’s decision to allow a Middle East government to own America’s major ports.
Continue reading →As President Bush’s poll numbers drop dramatically even among his base, the question most frequently asked by angry Republicans is, why, oh why, is Bush so stubbornly rejecting the advice of his supporters even though that advice is consistent with the thunderous message from public opinion surveys?
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The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has just let the cat out of the bag about what’s really behind our trade agreements and security partnerships with the other North American countries.
Continue reading →Since the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled in favor of same-sex marriages in Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health, reporters have been asking presidential candidates for their comment.
Continue reading →“They are coming after us, they want to execute attacks. . . . The threat environment today is as bad as it was the summer before Sept. 11.” In his October 17, 2002 appearance before the congressional joint intelligence committees, CIA Director George J. Tenet asserted that prior to 9/11 he was convinced that Osama bin Laden was planning to kill Americans, “and we reported these threats urgently.”
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