Archive for January, 2009
30 Jan
Stimulate with Tax Cuts
Increasing government spending by $550 billion over two years is one plan for fixing the economy. It may not work, but it’s definitely a plan and it definitely implies tax increases in the future. Senator Jim DeMint has an alternative idea: Cut taxes so that investors and entrepreneurs are rewarded for creating new value and [...]
30 Jan
The Super Bowl Commercial You Won’t See
by Marcia Segelstein That wonderful pro-life Obama commercial you may have seen here recently was supposed to run during the Super Bowl on Sunday. After first accepting it, NBC apparently changed its collective mind, saying it wasn’t going to run advocacy ads during the big game. Brian Burch, President of Fidelis, a Chicago-based Catholic organization [...]
30 Jan
Kill the Obama Stimulus Plan. Kill It Dead.
Larry Kudlow brings some needed clarity to the Obama stimulus proposal as only the Great One can: And in what may prove to be the biggest stimulus-package hurdle of all, news reports suggest that Team Obama is contemplating as much as $2 trillion in TARP additions to rescue the banking system in one form or [...]
30 Jan
Is Tim Geithner Really “Too Big to Fail?”
Many of the headlines over the past week read “Confirm Geithner or Else!” As corruption in Washington continues to run amuck, “too big to fail” seems to be the excuse to overlook past and current wrongdoings. Tim Geithner is now too big to fail. The economic crisis is too dangerous to let a man who [...]
30 Jan
Press Release: Lawsuit Filed on Behalf of Infant Allegedly Born Alive and then Murdered at Abortion Clinic in Florida
From ChristianNewsWire: On Tuesday, January 27, 2009, suit was filed in Miami on behalf of Shanice Denise Osbourne, an infant girl who was murdered in July, 2006. Thomas More Society retained the prominent Miami personal injury attorney, Tom Pennekamp, to prepare and prosecute the case, which alleges that Shanice was born alive and then murdered [...]
30 Jan
There is no pony hiding in the stimulus “pile of manure”
You can dig all you want, but there is no pony hiding under the Democrat’s stimulus manure pile. They have shoved all kinds of pork in the package for their supporters. They are even trying to pay off Acorn for acting as their agent in the last election. According to the CBO, only $26 billion [...]
30 Jan
Voter Suppression Found
There have been various incidents over the past few years of anonymous flyers being sent to voters giving them the wrong date of an upcoming election. These cause great concern (as they should), but as Soren Dayton at RedState points out, usually Republicans are accused of engaging in these types of tactics with no evidence [...]
30 Jan
Beating Us At Our Own Game
Guess who lampooned Soviet economics this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland: In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state’s role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost [the Soviet Union] dearly. Newt Gingrich? Rush Limbaugh? Try Vladimir Putin. Apparently, the power-hungry, [...]
30 Jan
The Economic Effects of Environmental Regulations
Politicians and consumers learned valuable lessons this summer when national gasoline prices peaked at over four dollars per gallon. Simply put, energy supply must be expanded in the United States. Last October Congress took the right first steps by allowing the restrictions on energy leasing in 85 percent of America’s territorial waters to lapse. An estimated 30 [...]
