One of President Obama’s signature boasts was that his election would, to use his term, “reboot” America’s image in the world. Addressing thousands of Germans last summer, Obama said, “In Europe, the view that America is part of what has gone wrong in our world rather than a force to help make it right has [...]
Archive for March, 2009
27 Mar
Medical Apartheid
President Obama decided that the man he originally picked to head the civil rights division at the Justice Department, Thomas Saenz, was too controversial, so he’s now turned to someone he hopes will have clearer sailing through the confirmation process. Earlier this month, the president nominated attorney Tom Perez as assistant attorney general for civil [...]
27 Mar
Shooting The Hostages
For years the Sudanese regime, headed by President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, has acted the part of a terrorist gang, holding millions of refugees in Darfur camps hostage and warning the world not to make any sudden or aggressive moves. Now the world faces a question: What do we do when the captors begin killing their [...]
27 Mar
States Rebellion Pending (by Walter E. Williams)
Our Colonial ancestors petitioned and pleaded with King George III to get his boot off their necks. He ignored their pleas, and in 1776, they rightfully declared unilateral independence and went to war. Today it’s the same story except Congress is the one usurping the rights of the people and the states, making King George’s [...]
27 Mar
Big Bedfellows
Maybe we have it all backwards. Here’s the basic story President Obama wants to tell. The last eight years were an economic disaster because President Bush and the Republicans ignored necessary government regulations and “investments.” The economic crisis has discredited “market fundamentalism,” as some liberals call it. Now, thanks to Bush’s hands-off approach to the [...]
27 Mar
The Teleprompter President
WASHINGTON — It is amazing how swiftly a presidential tendency turns from observation to joke to meme. Barack Obama — called “the most eloquent political speaker of our time” — has become known as the teleprompter president. The issue gathered momentum when Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen read 20 seconds of Obama’s teleprompter remarks at [...]
27 Mar
Protecting Freedom for Health Care Providers
Religious institutions have long been an essential part of health care delivery in our nation. Long before government programs began monopolizing the health care industry, religious institutions were providing care to the poor and most vulnerable. Today, Catholic health care facilities alone make up a third of the nation’s hospitals. As the federal government has [...]
27 Mar
Huffing And Puffing’ Till We Blow Business Down
The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday: “… FedEx may cancel plans to buy as many as 30 new Boeing planes should Congress pass a bill that would remove truck drivers, couriers and other employees at FedEx’s Express unit from the jurisdiction of the federal Railway Labor Act of 1926, the law which today also [...]
27 Mar
Do you really want these people running your healthcare or pension plans?
In a report released this week, the GAO found horrible inefficiency at the Department of Labor. They mishandled 9 of 10 test cases. They failed to return one complainant’s calls for 4 months, then told him it would take 8 to 10 months to begin an investigation. Labor Agency Is Failing Workers, Report Says By [...]
27 Mar
The perfect vacation
This woman needs to spend some time in the Betty Ford clinic. Woman arrested 3 times in 3 days for drunk driving Thursday, March 26, 2009 A 60-year-old Washington woman arrested for drunken driving three times in three days while vacationing in Wisconsin has been sentenced to a month in jail. The woman was arrested [...]
