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Relevance: 26% Posted on: December 14, 2012
As I write this, the United States of America is $16,275,179,205,442 in debt. By the time you read this, we’ll have piled up millions more. Much debt is of recent vintage. When George W. Bush became president in 2000, the national red ink totaled $5.7 trillion. In eight years, Dubya…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: February 16, 2012
Regulators spawned by “Obamacare” have mandated that employer-provided medical insurance plans provide contraception as a benefit. The problem, as currently reported and debated, is that only churches are exempted — church-run or -affiliated hospitals, for example, are not. And so Catholic hospitals, along with other religious-based charitable endeavors, must conform,…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: April 9, 2012
When you hear the word “unprecedented,” reach for your . . . dictionary. But when you hear someone say we should be “petrified” of “democracy,” what do you reach for, then? Early last week, President Barack Obama railed against the Supreme Court and the possibility that it might overturn the…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: January 2, 2014
With congressional approval ratings at the lowest ever, it’s evident: the sclerotic old institution needs new blood. But note what I’m not saying — that “Congress doesn’t do enough.” As A. Barton Hinkle points out in a column, yesterday, complaints about the 113th Congress hail from “CNN to McClatchy to…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: April 11, 2012
The art of polling is similar to almost any effort where interpretation is required: Context is important. The Reason-Rupe pollsters seem to get this. Their recent survey covers not only a lot of ground (the president’s job performance, possible candidates in the upcoming elections, health care, morality and war) but…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: January 27, 2014
Rush Limbaugh recently characterized United States President Barack Obama as a narcissist — and not for the first time. On the surface, Limbaugh’s complaint about presidential narcissism seems ludicrous: people are thinking about the president “all the time” — the man is in the position to be contemplated by millions…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: September 7, 2015
“Republicans in Congress are dead-set on rolling back the progress that Democrats like you and I [sic] have worked so hard to achieve,” wrote Democratic Party Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, in a bizarre pitch letter last week. They’ve already said that they’re going to try to repeal Obamacare, after…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: February 18, 2011
If government is “justified” in forcing you to buy health insurance for your own good — the fabled and perhaps fatal conceit of Obamacare — is it also justified in forcing us to keep up with “good” TV shows? That’s the nutty notion floated at the satirical site The Onion,…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: September 14, 2012
President Obama loves a laugh line he uttered during his convention speech and is now on tour with it, using it to stoke up his campaign whistle stops. Obama told us that Republican policy amounts to this: “Have a surplus? Try a tax cut. Deficit too high? Try another. Feel…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: January 13, 2016
On January 13, 1833, United States President Andrew Jackson (pictured, top left) wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren (pictured, top right) expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. Jackson insisted that “the crisis must be now met with firmness” and “the modern…