Should Shelby Steele be on the Shortlist for Vice President?
/ Shelby Steele speaks about American Exceptionalism in the film A City Upon A Hill.
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State of the Economy Address
First time jobless claims were again over 400,000 (at 409,000) last week. Second quarter productivity slid to 0.7 percent for the second quarter in a row. Tomorrow fresh unemployment numbers come out for the month of August and if I had a crystal ball I would predict they will probably remain over 9 percent. Next […]
The U.S. – U.N. Relationship Needs Reform
The United Nations is a broken mess that needs to be reformed now or its existence as a (somewhat) viable international institution will go the way of the Dodo bird. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen unveiled a U.N. reform bill earlier this week – the bill makes it clear to the U.N. that […]
Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60 – Official Trailer
Broken Promises takes viewers on an exploration of many international crises from the …
Politico: Should disaster aid be conditional?
While the federal government should play a role in disaster relief, Congress has a responsibility to spend the taxpayers’ money wisely. Far too often Congress has issued blank checks in an emergency that are ripe for waste, fraud, and abuse. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the New York Times – of all publications – […]
Cagle Post: Obama’s Regulatory Sleight of Hand
Since its founding, America has been a beacon for entrepreneurship. In no other place on the planet do people have the freedom to take a great idea and grow it into a business the way they do in the United States. Slowly but surely that has been changing as the role of Big Government has […]
Krueger Nomination Shows Obama Satisfied with Failed Status Quo
President Obama nominated Alan Krueger to become the next chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers today. Mr. Krueger hails from the ivory tower better known as Princeton University where the likes of noted leftist and Keynesian economist Paul Krugman reside. The fact that Alan Krueger worked at the Treasury Department for the […]
Obama Surfs, America Suffers
While the long hot summer continues, more news about how lackluster America’s economy is came out today. The economy grew at a snail’s pace in the second quarter and the Gross Domestic Product was revised down from 1.3 percent to 1 percent. This revision is just more evidence that America’s economy is in the doldrums. […]
Obama & Project Vote: The ACORN Doesn’t Fall Far From The Tree
President Obama’s campaign today launched “Project Vote” to increase registration amongst Democrat-friendly demographic groups. The Obama campaign wants to “expand the electorate” for the upcoming 2012 race. One problem with the name “Project Vote” – it shares the same title as a 501 (c) (3) also called Project Vote which worked closely with the now-defunct […]
Will Cash Edge Help Dems in 2012?
David N. Bossie, President of Citizens United responds to today’s Politico Arena question “Will cash edge help Dems in 2012?
Cagle Post: Leading From Behind
The Obama Administration touted earlier this year that the President was “leading from behind” when it came to the conflict in Libya, which pretty much means not leading at all. Come to think of it, one can make the argument that President Obama has been “leading from behind” throughout his ill-fated presidency. Whether it is […]
Why We Welcome AFL-CIO’s Super PAC
After the United States Supreme Court handed Citizens United a great victory for free speech with its historic decision in Citizens United v. FEC in 2010, the AFL-CIO was aghast. In a statement released the day of the decision, the AFL-CIO said, “…the Supreme Court further tilted the playing field in favor of business corporations […]