Public opinion is behind tax cuts. In a recent poll, 58% of Americans said they would oppose a new fiscal stimulus program if it did not include tax cuts. While it is natural that Americans should want tax cuts, we should be careful about the methods we choose to achieve that goal. Tax cuts have [...]
Archive for January, 2009
29 Jan
Transparency Promise Broken on First Bill Signed
Paul Blumenthal of the Sunlight Foundation reports: In a blog post announcing the President’s signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the first piece of legislation he has signed, we are informed that the bill has been posted on the White House web site and is now open for comment… after the President signed [...]
29 Jan
Obama’s Victory–A British view
A victory for the hysterical Oprah Winfrey, the mad racist preacher Jeremiah Wright, the US mainstream media who abandoned any sense of objectivity long ago, Europeans who despise America largely because they depend on her, comics who claim to be dangerous and fearless but would not dare attack genuinely powerful special interest groups. A victory [...]
29 Jan
Republican Economic Recovery Proposals
At the request of President Obama for input, Congressman Boehner and House Republicans crafted an economic recovery plan using fast-acting tax relief – not slow-moving and wasteful government spending – to create jobs and put our economy back on track. The plan promoted by Boehner provides relief to those who need it most: middle-class families, [...]
29 Jan
My Bipartisan Stimulus
There’s a serious debate in this country as to how best to end the recession. The average recession will last five to 11 months; the average recovery will last six years. Recessions will end on their own if they’re left alone. What can make the recession worse is the wrong kind of government intervention. I [...]
29 Jan
Lord Ahmed threatens Parliament into submission
Lord Ahmed is a repugnant individual. Not only in appearance, but in association, character and morality. And to hear that he has threatened jihad on the House of Lords if their lordships should fail to meet his demands only serves to intensify Cranmer’s loathing of the man. It appears that a member of the House [...]
29 Jan
Arsonist intended murder at Palin’s church?
Report: Alarm, phone wires cut, fire set at entrance A leader at Wasilla Bible Church in Alaska suspects the arsonist who started fires that left $1 million in damages intended murder and possibly targeted the church because of the attendance of Gov. Sarah Palin, whose Christian faith became an issue during her 2008 campaign with [...]
29 Jan
Economic meltdown excuse for ‘new world’
Leaders at global forum see money crisis as chance to expand government control A call to utilize the current global economic crisis as a panic in which governments worldwide can move to nationalize banks is emerging from the 2009 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The forum’s founder, Klaus Schwab, told CNN yesterday the current [...]
29 Jan
Obama’s illegal aunt seeks asylum
‘This type of obstinacy and persistence is well known to the family’ President Barack Obama’s illegal alien aunt has enlisted the help of an immigration lawyer to help her win asylum and stay in the United States. Margaret Wong and Associates is representing Zeituni Onyango, the 56-year-old Kenyan half-sister of Obama’s deceased father, the Cleveland [...]
29 Jan
Stimulus bill moves us closer to nationalized health care and rationing
The House of Representatives approved an $819 billion economic stimulus package Wednesday. The party line vote was a blow to Barack Obama’s alleged desire for bipartisanship. All the Republicans and 11 democrats voted against the bill. One thing in the bill that went mostly unnoticed was a new bureaucracy called the Federal Coordinating Council for [...]
