An economic recovery plan that creates jobs, lowers gas and electricity prices, and won’t cost taxpayers $825 billion? Generally, when something is too good to be true, it usually is. And it’s probably the case here, but if I had a wish list of energy items to include in the stimulus package, it would look [...]
Archive for January, 2009
28 Jan
Are Liberals Breaking Their No-Earmark Pledge? [You betcha!]
Tucked inside the Appropriations Committee report on the Pelosi-Obama-Reid Trillion Dollar Debt Plan are quite a few sentences like this one: However, the Committee has had extensive consultations with the Corps concerning how the funds provided under this heading could be used in broad program categories. – Pg. 27 …and this one: However, the Committee [...]
28 Jan
Progressive Corporatism in Action
As President Barack Obama and his leftist allies in Congress spend trillions in taxpayer dollars in the span of just a few months, it is important to remember that the left is no enemy of big business. The left LOVES big business. Who else could possibly pay huge corporate taxes and make payroll on exorbitant [...]
28 Jan
Garbage In, Garbage Out II: Climate Modeling
The economy is not the only policy area where the left has slapped some lines of code together and are attempting to pass it off as reality. As Al Gore’s testimony today on Capitol Hill reminds us, global warming would not exist as an issue without the left’s blind devotion to computer modeling. But as [...]
28 Jan
Garbage In, Garbage Out: Breaking Down Obama’s Stimulus Claims
Heritage senior tax policy analyst Curtis Dubay and macroeconomics policy analyst Karen Campbell have a new paper out analyzing The Job Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan put out by Council of Economic Advisers president and vice president Christina Romer and Jared Bernstein. Dubay and Campbell write: Romer and Bernstein estimate how much [...]
28 Jan
Wisconsin’s New ‘Pork Czar’
As states begin to line up for their portion of the Pelosi-Reid-Obama debt plan, many of them aren’t even waiting for the legislation to be passed to prepare the ways they can spend your tax dollars. In Wisconsin, Gov. James E. Doyle went as far as creating an “Office of Recovery and Reinvestment” to “start laying [...]
28 Jan
Ban on free speech (a.k.a. talkin’ Jesus) gone
College under fire for allowing expression rights only 2 hours per week A college’s ban on free speech – except for two selected hours per week – has been eliminated in a settlement with the Alliance Defense Fund, which took up the cause on behalf of a student threatened with arrest and expulsion for sharing [...]
28 Jan
Obama hails ‘anti-Israel’ Arab plan
Initiative includes massive concessions, erosion of Jewish character JERUSALEM – Following scores of denials he would trumpet the plan, President Obama today hailed a so-called “Saudi Peace Initiative,” which offers normalization of ties with the Jewish state in exchange for extreme Israeli concessions. Defenders of Israel warn the plan would leave the Jewish state with [...]
28 Jan
‘Pro-Hamas’ Arab state ratted out Iran?
U.S. Navy intercepted Tehran arms vessel destined for Gaza JERUSALEM – Qatar provided the original tip that led to the U.S. Navy intercepting an Iranian ship carrying weapons allegedly intended to rearm Hamas in the Gaza Strip, according to a top Egyptian intelligence official speaking to WND. The claim could not immediately be verified by [...]
28 Jan
Judge tells Christian: ‘I would kill you’
Reportedly threatens woman who chooses to worship Jesus A woman arrested at the Cairo airport because her identity card described her as a Christian has been threatened for her faith by the judge in her case, according to a new report. As WND reported, authorities in Egypt deprived the woman’s two children, ages 2 and [...]
