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''There he goes again, folks," Ronald Reagan might say, shaking his head ruefully, as Barack Obama goes charging off on that same spavined old big-spending government horse, riding straight into a box canyon where certain disaster awaits America.
The president's planned fiscal excesses beyond 2010 cannot plausibly be attributed to the recession, blamed on George W. Bush or justified by economic principles, Keynesian or otherwise. They are simply irresponsible to the point of willful endangerment. The public debt will be at least an astronomical 91 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2020 - and the gross debt will be at least 123 percent of GDP (compared with 125 percent in Greece) and greatly in excess of the fatal...
According to the Pew Research Center, nearly 80% of Americans don't trust their own government. Could it really be that Americans actually do trust their government...to do the wrong thing with remarkable consistency? Trust is based on an assumption that the person or thing in whom one places trust will act predictably and responsibly. It appears from the poll results that came out in early April that the government does neither, at least in the minds of four out of five citizens. When...
Exactly which side of the political spectrum is dragging us toward the past? Recently Bill Maher said on his show, "Democrats in America were put on earth to do one thing: drag the ignorant hillbilly half of this country into the next century, which in their case is the 19th..." This is the type of rhetoric we hear from liberals all the time, ‘the old ways of capitalism and individual responsibility are over and it is time to move into a more collective and social era.' Hence the name...
Who invited the thought police to the Tea Party? I am a traditional conservative, and I'll speak for myself, thank you very much. I came out early to join the Tea Party because it was time to protest an overweening administration. The beauty of those protests was that Americans who want smaller government came together spontaneously with a goal of being heard in Washington. Now, six months before midterm elections that should really register our complaints -- if we can manage to nominate...
How did we get there? That is the question posed by Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) to Supreme Court Justice Nominee Sonia Sotomayor during her confirmation hearing. The "there" Senator Coburn was asking about is the situation where the individual's right to bear arms is explicit in the Constitution yet unsettled in law, while a woman's right to privacy (to an abortion), not mentioned at all in the Constitution, is settled in law. Thus, the perfectly reasonable question, "How did we get...
The federal government appears to be becoming more a parasite than a protector to the several states that organized its creation. The state of Louisiana has two enemies at present: One is an immense oil slick, and the other is a federal government doing its utmost to make matters worse. While the oil slick is lifeless (as well as life-choking) and is moved by wind and wave with no course of its own, the federal enemy is willfully obstructionist, uncaringly incompetent, and hopelessly...
HBO's Bill Maher: "I thought when we elected a black president, we were going to get a black president. You know, this [BP oil spill] is where I want a real black president. I want him in a meeting with the BP CEOs, you know, where he lifts up his shirt where you can see the gun in his pants. That's -- (in black man voice) 'we've got a motherfu**ing problem here?' Shoot somebody in the foot."
This video doesn't exactly represent our point of view--we never fell for Obama's "hope and change" scam--but it does speak for many millions of Americans. It's nicely done. We'll see a lot more of this kind of populist calling of Democrats to account between now and November:
UPDATE: Apparently liberals have been trying to drive this video off YouTube. The original link no longer works; this one does, for now at least:
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Should a mosque be constructed at Ground Zero in New York? Nonie Darwish joined us this week to explain why this sends a dangerous message around the world. Plus, an update on the persecuted church from Todd Nettleton.
NEW YORK (WABC) -- There was an eruption of emotions near Ground Zero Tuesday night as Community Board 1 in Manhattan approved a plan to build a 15-story mosque and cultural center right by the World Trade Center.
Critics say it's a slap in the face to victims of 9/11, but supporters say it will help heal.
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The meeting got a bit ugly, and even though this project now has the green light, many family members of 9/11 victims say they still...
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