Massachusetts: A Model Not to Copy
The Massachusetts plan has increased costs. It has wasted taxpayer dollars. It has limited patients’ choice.
Continue reading →Obama’s Health Care Reform in Trouble
Barack Obama’s high-speed train to Socialism was knocked off track by a surprising source: the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
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Why Women Are Unhappy
The National Bureau of Economic Research released a study to be published soon in the American Economic Journal that shows women’s happiness has measurably declined since 1970. It’s no surprise that this has stimulated much comment.
Continue reading →High Costs of Obama’s Health Care Plan
President Obama’s drive for government health care began in earnest on Saturday, June 6 in thousands of neighborhood House Meetings where his supporters listened to his sales talk via a video on the internet and participated in a live conference call.
Continue reading →Obama Is Remaking America Into Socialism
The younger generation probably doesn’t realize that the word Socialism means and connotes a system that is profoundly un-American. Socialism has virtually disappeared from our national lexicon since the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) collapsed because of Ronald Reagan’s policies, and the National Socialist (Nazi) Party was destroyed by the U.S. in World War II.
Continue reading →Harold Koh Is Too Dangerous for America
Does Barack Obama really want to make Americans subject to foreign law and courts? That is the question Senators should ask when they vote on his nomination of Harold Hongju Koh, former dean of the Yale Law School, to be the top lawyer at the State Department.
Continue reading →ACORN Should Not Receive Taxpayers’ Money
Republicans should loudly demand that ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) be cut off from all further handouts of taxpayers’ money.
Continue reading →Don’t Fall for Cap and Tax
Barack Obama promised that he won’t raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year. He neglected to mention that this tax exemption will go only to those who don’t use electricity, gasoline, heating oil, or natural gas.
Continue reading →David Souter’s Departure
On his 100th day in office, President Barack Obama started campaigning for reelection in 2012. He went to a small town in Missouri, a red state he didn’t carry last year, and boasted that “we’ve begun the work of remaking America.”
Continue reading →How Young Engineers and Our Economy Are Betrayed
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.
Continue reading →Ginsburg’s Judicial Activism Goes International
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is credited with writing several feminist precepts into U.S. constitutional law based on the spurious notion that our Constitution is a “living” (i.e., re-interpretable) document, she now wants to expand that process to welcome foreign law.
Continue reading →Yes, Marriage Can Be Saved From the Gay Lobby
Since the April defeats for traditional marriage in the Iowa Supreme Court, the Vermont legislature, and the Washington, D.C. city council, Americans in the other 48 states are quietly stress-testing their legal defenses against the spread of legalized same-sex marriage.
Continue reading →College Student Alert: Beware of One-Party Classrooms
How can we explain continued public support for Barack Obama’s extremist spending plans, even though it is painfully obvious that his much touted “remaking America” means mortgaging the financial future of young people with trillions of dollars in debt?
Continue reading →Will the Real Secretary Geithner Please Stand Up?
Does Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner favor replacing the U.S. dollar with a global currency, or doesn’t he?
Continue reading →Global Warming Is Running Out of Hot Air
The coldest winter in a decade in many places, with snow in unlikely cities such as New Orleans, has deflated some of the hot air in global warming. And a heavy snowfall that paralyzed Washington, DC upstaged a mass demonstration scheduled to promote global warming.
Continue reading →Republicans Can’t Afford to Default to Obama
Republicans are still awestruck at how Barack Obama was able to get every Democrat in the House and Senate to vote for his Stimulus package despite opinion polls showing impressive public opposition.
Continue reading →E-Verify Is a "Shovel-Ready" Solution
E-Verify is a real-time, web-based verification system run by the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration. E-Verify can determine with great accuracy the authenticity of the personal information and credentials offered by employees and new hires. In most cases, verification occurs almost instantly.
Continue reading →The Court’s One-Two Punch
Dwight Eisenhower reportedly admitted that he made two big mistakes as President: his two appointments to the Supreme Court, Earl Warren and William Brennan.
Continue reading →Obama’s Stimulus
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 →Obama Gives What the Doctor Did Not Order
Barack Obama forced a bitter pill down the throats of Americans which the doctor did not order and patients do not want. Obama snuck into the stimulus bill a new system for rationing medical care, and he got Congress to ram it through the House and Senate without reading it.
Continue reading →Obama’s Picks Don’t Change the Culture in Washington
President Barack Obama has indeed made history. His selections for his Cabinet and other top government offices make a mockery of his much publicized campaign promises to give us “the most sweeping ethics reform in history” and to “close the revolving door” to lobbyists.
Continue reading →Community Organizing Explained
L. David Alinsky boasted about how Barack Obama had made extremely effective use of his training in the methods of David’s late father, the famous Chicago radical, Saul D. Alinsky.
Continue reading →Feminists Expect to Cash in With Barack Obama
The groups that elected Barack Obama are poised to cash in on their investment and the feminists are muscling to be first in line. The National Organization for Women (NOW), bragging that “we all worked hard to help elect” Obama, has helpfully spelled out the “feminist action agenda”:
Continue reading →1993 All Over Again
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 →Barack’s Bailout for Trial Lawyers
The jobless rate just hit its highest level in 16 years: 7.2 percent, which means more than 11 million Americans are unemployed.
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