The Democrats’ most recent answer to the question of how they will pay for their trillion-dollar health-care reform was just announced by Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel. He wants to impose a surtax on incomes over $280,000, which would be a staggering blow to small businesses that create most jobs.
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President Obama has repeatedly expressed his concern about our rising unemployment.
Continue reading →President Obama has repeatedly expressed his concern about our rising unemployment. The worst loss of jobs is in manufacturing, because building autos has gone overseas, and in construction, because the housing industry has tanked.
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A robotics competition for high school students interested in engineering, a program that now attracts about 200,000 student-competitors and nearly 100,000 volunteers.
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Under the subterfuge of helping the economy, Barack Obama’s Stimulus legislates vast new spending programs to finance liberal policy goals that are unnecessary and undesirable.
Continue reading →Faced with 24/7 obamamania on the media, the 60 million Americans who did not vote for Barack Obama are wondering where we go from here.
Continue reading →The jobless rate just hit its highest level in 16 years: 7.2 percent, which means more than 11 million Americans are unemployed.
Continue reading →Democrats learned that attacks on guns and defense of abortion are no longer winning issues for them, and this new awakening is reflected in their 2008 Party Platform adopted in Denver.
Continue reading →The high-priced corporate lobbyists walking Capitol Hill corridors have a new mantra: innovation. They demand that Congress bring in more guest workers, especially from Asia, in order to maintain American innovation supremacy.
Continue reading →The ABA represents lawyers who seek to win their cases, especially if they are profitable and result in verdicts that order transfers of money.
Continue reading →The indignation of Americans is growing rapidly about the U.S. Air Force granting a French company a $35 billion tanker-aircraft contract that could eventually grow to $100 billion and is estimated to create 100,000 jobs in Europe. French government subsidies are one of the factors that enabled the lucky company (known as EADS) to underbid Boeing.
Continue reading →Bill Clinton was elected President in 1992 using James Carville’s slogan, “It’s the economy, stupid.” The Democrats thus capitalized on a temporary economic recession during the last year of George H.W. Bush’s Administration.
Continue reading →At the MSNBC Florida presidential debate, Mitt Romney posed a very significant question. “As we compete with China, how do we make sure that trade is done in a way that levels the playing field? How do we … protect American industry and American jobs, and do not cause a departure of jobs from this country?”
Continue reading →Bill Clinton was elected President in 1992 using James Carville’s slogan, “It’s the economy, stupid.” The Democrats thus capitalized on a temporary economic recession during the last year of George H.W. Bush’s Administration.
Continue reading →WTO now stands for World Trade Outrage rather than its original name, World Trade Organization. The WTO just ruled that the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda can freely violate American copyrights and trademarks in order to punish the United States for our laws prohibiting internet gambling.
Continue reading →U.S. News & World Report, which has made a name for itself by ranking and announcing the Best Colleges every year, is now ranking and listing the Best Careers for young people.
Continue reading →“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me” is an old verse that just isn’t true. Indeed, words can hurt, break up marriages, destroy careers, and defeat political candidates.
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 →A new grab for power over education now lurking in the corridors of Congress reminds me of a song popular in the Harry James/Frank Sinatra era: “I’ve Heard That Song Before.” Section 3401, inserted by the Senate (but not the House) in the pending America COMPETES Act (S.761), would give us another costly and harmful expansion of the federal education bureaucracy.
Continue reading →The bipartisan Border Tax Equity Act (H.R. 2600) has just been introduced by Congressmen Bill Pascrell (D-NJ), Duncan Hunter (R-CA), Mike Michaud (D-ME), and Walter Jones (R-NC). The purpose is to correct border-tax inequities that currently disadvantage U.S. producers and service providers to the tune of $379 billion a year.
Continue reading →How can we re-motivate and reactivate the coalition of fiscal, national defense, social, and economic conservatives who gave Ronald Reagan his tremendous victories in 1980 and 1984?
Continue reading →“The dropout rate for African-American, Hispanic, and Native American students approaches 50 percent. . . . Every year nearly a million kids fail to graduate high school. . . . The United States has the most severe income gap between high school graduates and dropouts in the world.”
Continue reading →American workers are not impressed with talk that “globalism” is inevitable, that educated foreigners have better skills than Americans, or that uneducated foreigners do “jobs Americans won’t do” – because that forces us to compete with foreigners working for 30 cents an hour.
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