Obama's stimulus plan is spending a $1 billion a day, and sucking more money than that out of our economy to pay for it.
Foxnews documents how Obama has dragged the country to the left.
Man in Iraqi uniform kills US soldiers in Mosul.
Hillary Clinton says the US is ready to make up for lost time on global warming. No it's not. Only the Obama administration and Democrats are. Normal people see through this fraud.
Obama taxing assault on small business.
Obama plans to nationalize GM - the government and UAW would own 89 percent of the company. Talk about a zombie. Let it die.
Government interference in the health care market is causing a doctor shortage as students find more lucrative professions to enter.
How does Harry Reid rationalize this incredibly pompous comment from Obama as humility?
Reid, D-Nev., writes: "'That speech was phenomenal, Barack,' I told him. And I will never forget his response. Without the barest hint of braggadocio or conceit, and with what I would describe as deep humility, he said quietly: 'I have a gift, Harry.'"That's the height of narcissism, the opposite of humility.
Cato advocates cutting the defense budget in half and advocating military restraint. But the political reality is this will never fly. You have to first show the people that military restraint makes the world a saver place before you can cut the military budget. We should hold the military budget flat and bring our troops home from Europe, Japan and South Korea, reduce our footprint in Afghanistan and anyplace else we're fighting that I don't know about, and return from Iraq on the schedule of the status of forces agreement. At the same time we need an economic renaissance brought about from dramatic cuts in government spending and adopting the FairTax. If we do all that, the world will quickly become a safer place, and we can cut the military budget afterwards. But we should not cut missile defense, because a missile attack from a rogue state is a very real threat and getting more dangerous every day.
Cato applauds the progress of economic and political freedom in Panama. Naturally Congress is holding up a free trade agreement that would promote further progress, just like with Columbia. Washington aristocrats are doing their best to undermine freedom in South America same as here.
Obama is a statist, not a socialist. This is mincing words. Both believe that all power belongs to the government.
Cato expects Specter's to vote more liberal now that he's changed parties, and so do I.
Reason explains that Obama's theory of governance grants him total power over aspect of our lives, "His sense of that reach, and the abrupt and scary speed with which he’s used it, marks him as an executive with a tentacled grip—multiple, crushing, inescapable. No longer the cautious critic of presidential power of the campaign trail, he now sees nothing as beyond his grasp." Reason calls Obama an effective salesman of exhausted ideas.
Back door eminent domain abuse.
The Supreme Court stops cops from routinely searching cars of people they arrest. A drop of victory for freedom in a sea of losses.
CO2 follows global warming by 800 years. In 1999, the US spent $2.1 billion annually on climate change research. Only 34 percent of Americans blame humans for climate change. Only 30 percent of Americans support cap and trade.
Walter Block explains that a generic cap and trade scheme will cost American households about $3,100 per year.
Nice video puts the bailout is perspective - all in all, we're spending 3 times what we spent on WWII. All of it is wasted. Every dollar we spend takes more than a dollar out of our economy and therefore slows our recovery.
Reason reporter is more optimistic about the Tea Parties than I am. He makes some good points - those Tea Parties were the most libertarian outburst I've seen in my life, but he his optimism seems to hinge on an incorrect point - these aren't new voters like in 1994. They're already Republican voters, they put George Bush in the White House twice and they're going to stay Republican voters which means the best we can hope for is more of the Bush/Obama government uber alles governing philosophy.
The Supreme Court apparently doesn't comprehend the phrase "Congress shall pass no law ... abridging the freedom of speech" because it just upheld government censorship by the FCC. You would think the ability to read and understand plain English would be a requirement for a Supreme Court Justice. More details on the decision.
Chrysler's creditors that Obama tried to squeeze out of the deal by doing an end around around the standard bankruptcy process have filed suit to stop this deal that shuts them out of any due process in an attempt to recoup their losses. Let's hope a court has the guts to tell Obama he's not above the law. In Nixonian fashion, he doesn't seem to think the law applies to him. Attorney claims Obama administration threatened to destroy the opposing companies with the "full force of the White House Press Corps". Don't you just love fascism? Thanks to Bush and Obama, we are a banana republic now. The White House denies. What else would it do?
I'm not the only person who thinks that Obama is looking more similar to Nixon, but worse, than any other president. Between the inflationary policy, the above the law approach and the conceit that he and only he has the solutions to our problems, it's a pretty scary similarity. This essay also provides a nice introduction to fractional banking, how the Fed inflates the money supply, and how government promotes banks to make risky loans by mitigating the risk - all the processes that created this current credit crisis.
Jonah Goldberg sets the record straight about Britain torturing captured Germans in WWII despite the Geneva Conventions, but I don't think there's any lesson to be learned here. The US should not use torture, and from everything we know so far, the US never condoned torture during the war on terror. I still say sleep deprivation should be outlawed because it harms the subject, but I understand how reasonable people may disagree.
But reasonable people cannot disagree about waterboarding. Anybody who's taken the time to watch the waterboarding demonstrations has plainly seen that waterboarding is not torture. The subjects of waterboarding get right up and go right back to their normal lives literally a minute later as if nothing ever happened. People who have been tortured cannot do that. Anybody who watches the videos of Steve Harrigan and Christopher Hitchens being waterboarded and then claims it's torture has an ax to grind against Bush or the US in general and is using waterboarding to grind it.
Charles Krauthammer has it wrong. Twice. He thinks waterboarding is torture despite the evidence we've seen with our own eyes that it is not. He must have been seduced by liberals saying it was so over and over. He thinks torture is OK in a scenario in which he knows torture will save lives. That scenerio is a fantasy. He can never know that torture will save lives. He can only think it will, and you can't justify institutionalizing torture on that. Harsh interrogation methods including waterboarding worked. We don't know if torture worked because we aren't aware of any cases of torture. He does manage to point out the hypocrisy of Democrats including Nancy Pelosi who not only signed off on the techniques at the time, but asked if they could help the CIA do more.
Jack Kemp died. I saw him on TV not more than a couple months ago, and he looked fine.
Muslims approve of Obama's performance more than any other religious groups. Shocker.
Condaleezza Rice does a great job handling questions about torture from Stanford students. I didn't like her answer at the end about waterboarding because she claimed that anything authorized by the president was by definition not torture. Clearly the US can never accept that kind of legal reasoning because it invalidates the rule of law. It's distinctly Nixonian in the same way I pointed out above about Obama, showing once again just how scarily similar Bush and Obama are. Funny how this Brit asks Condi to come be their queen. ;)
Because Supreme Court Justice Scalia has expressed no need to protect private information, professor has law class develop dossier of publically available private information on Scalia. Funny. Scalia is not amused. I'm just glad they didn't look me up.
Republicans are so bad that 42 percent of Republicans say congressional leaders are unclear. What do you expect? They elected basically the same leadership that cost them power. It's unbelievable how incompetent the 2 parties are. Our political system rewards corruption and punishes virtue and competence.
And it just keeps getting worse for Republicans. The Pew research center shows that after 8 years of Bush and the continuing performance of his sycophants in Congress, nobody in America wants to be a Republican. These graphs are stunning. Bush set out to destroy the Reagan legacy, and he succeeded spectacularly. He and all his big-government Republican cronies should be very proud of their accomplishment. How's that worked out for them?
Sen. Feinstein introduces legislation to protect one illegal alien from deportation. Remember when Democrats complained about Republicans trying to pass legislation to save Terry Schaivo? This kind of stuff is nuts. Congress is not supposed to interfere in the lives of individuals.
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