“Our struggle for nationhood, our unrelenting fight for freedom, our very existence — these have all rested on the assurance that you must be free to shape your life as you are best able to, that no one can stop you from reaching higher or take from you the creativity that has made America the [...]
Archive for August, 2009
4 Aug
A Liberty Issue
“How did the health-care debate decay to the point where we think it entirely natural for the central government to fix a collective figure for what 300 million freeborn citizens ought to be spending on something as basic to individual liberty as their own bodies? That’s the argument that needs to be won. And, if [...]
4 Aug
Relentless Cuts Net 0.0025% In Savings
“The administration has fulfilled a promise to cut spending by trimming $100 million from the 2009 budget. That’s right — $100 million with an ‘m,’ an imponderably small slice of this year’s expenditures. Back in April, the White House stressed that President Obama, during his first Cabinet meeting, ‘made clear that relentlessly cutting out waste [...]
4 Aug
Are Republicans the Economic Pessimists?
“[R]espected economists like Donald Marron, Keith Hennessey, Bruce Bartlett and Kevin Hassett have all carefully chronicled the fact that the Obama stimulus package does not feature any real fiscal multipliers. They say the bulk of the package consists of transfer payments to individuals and states, along with tax credits that will produce no real incentive [...]
4 Aug
Disaster in the Making
“After many a disappointment with someone, and especially after a disaster, we may be able to look back at numerous clues that should have warned us that the person we trusted did not deserve our trust. When that person is the President of the United States, the potential for disaster is virtually unlimited. Many people [...]
4 Aug
Exploiting Public Ignorance
“With respect to the two words ‘general welfare,’ I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.” [...]
3 Aug
FRIENDS, ROMANS, COUNRYMEN . . . LEND ME YOUR EARS(PArt 3 of 3)
via: Scott Johns from the Facebook group, God Bless America RACIAL PROFILING Racial profiling is getting PULLED OVER because you are black. It isn’t SHOWING up to a suspected burglary and the suspect HAPPENING to be black! A cop didn’t just RIDE BY, see a black guy on a porch, figure that “hey, he is [...]
3 Aug
Transplanting Gitmo To US Soil
via: stoptheaclu Here’s the latest trial balloon floated by the Most Incompetent Administration Ever The Obama administration is looking at creating a courtroom-within-a-prison complex in the U.S. to house suspected terrorists, combining military and civilian detention facilities at a single maximum-security prison. Several senior U.S. officials said the administration is eyeing a soon-to-be-shuttered state maximum [...]
2 Aug
Townhall.com’s Washington Beat
Be sure to check out the Washington Beat on video! Get the past week’s news in three minutes or less with some classic conservative spin. HEALTH CARE BILL IN BAD HEALTH Obama really wants health care legislation to pass, but he’s having some bad luck; he’s currently facing opposition from Democratic House Majority Leader Harry [...]
2 Aug
CNN wrong once again – birth record not destroyed
via: wnd Hawaii contradicts network boss’ claim that Obama certificate no longer exists Directly contradicting CNN chief Jon Klein – who ordered host Lou Dobbs to quit discussing President Obama’s birth certificate – the Hawaii Department of Health affirmed that no paper birth certificates were destroyed when the department moved to electronic record-keeping. “I am [...]
