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Relevance: 33% Posted on: November 10, 2013
Obamacare's failures are not exactly bolts out of the blue, big surprises that should shock us all. Click on over to Townhall, and then back here, for some indication of the principal principles behind the ailing failure. A number of ideas and phrases appear in the column that might seem…
Relevance: 32% Posted on: July 29, 2009
Want a laugh? To keep you from crying at what President Obama and the Congress are trying to do to health care in this country? Over the decades, the federal government’s involvement in health care has been making it harder and harder for doctors and patients to make independent, sensible…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: March 26, 2010
It’s magic. Not only does the recently passed health care reform cover more people, it cuts deficits too. Ha! You know it, I know, we all know it: Major government entitlement programs always end up costing far, far more than their original advocates claim. Or should we just trust trust…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: April 14, 2017
The folks in Congress represent ‘We, the People’ . . . well, theoretically, at least. They’re supposed to work for us. We are their bosses. We pay their salary. But not U.S. Rep. Markwayne Mullin, the third-term Republican from the rural Second District of Oklahoma. At two recent town hall…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: April 1, 2017
On April Fools’ Day, 1957, the BBC offered for viewers of the current affairs program “Panorama” the infamous spaghetti tree report hoax. In the spirit of the day, Common Sense offers these “historic” events: On April 1, 1787, James Madison, father of the Constitution, removed the General Welfare clause from…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: July 18, 2012
It’s often difficult to know where ideology ends and realpolitik begins. Politicians claim to be pure partisans of principle alone — “statesmen,” to use the old-fashioned term. But observe their behavior and quickly their personal and professional interests shake out of their sleeves. With the medical industry reform bill now…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: August 18, 2010
A congressman yells “You lie!” during a State of the Union address and everybody blasts him for lapse of manners, failure to respect the office of the presidency. Less objectionable, presumably, is the statement itself. For President Obama and members of Congress do fib, misrepresent, lie: About this, about that,…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: January 22, 2010
Over at Amazon.com there’s a discussion of Oscar Wilde’s essay “The Soul of Man Under Socialism.” Some visitors decry the horrors of socialism enabled by such wishful thinking. Others say, “Hey, be fair! The calamitous ‘socialist’ regimes of the 20th century aren’t what Wilde was talking about!” But not many…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: May 2, 2012
I think I like Mitt Romney, the man. I have defended some of what he has said. But I doubt I will support him for the presidency — and if he gets elected, I’d likely spend as much time criticizing him as I did George W. Bush and as I…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: October 7, 2010
What does gold have to do with medical care? Ingested, it’s a poison. It’s not often used in treatment. So why did the Obama administration place a provision further regulating the buying and selling of gold into the Democrats’ medical reform legislation? Economist Thomas Sowell explains, in a recent column,…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: March 4, 2010
Senate Democrats are firmly against any attempt to circumvent the 60-vote majority that Senate rules require to prevent a filibuster of major legislation. On principle! Forget that the recent election of Republican Scott Brown deprives Democrats of their filibuster-proof majority. Democrats won’t even consider trying to shunt that rule aside…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: April 1, 2018
On April Fools’ Day, 1957, the BBC offered for viewers of the current affairs program “Panorama” the infamous spaghetti harvest report hoax. In the spirit of the day, Common Sense offers these “historic” events: On April 1, 1787, James Madison, father of the Constitution, removed the General Welfare clause from…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: July 3, 2019
“You lie!” When U.S. Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC) shouted this at President Barack Obama during 2009’s State of the Union — scandal! How dare he? At issue was whether federal tax dollars would aid illegal immigrants under Obamacare. Democrats denied that any such thing would happen. Indeed, the very idea…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: January 2, 2015
President Calvin Coolidge looks more like a sage every day. Confucius would’ve been proud of Silent Cal. Today’s top politicians might take a cue from the man: When you don’t have much to say, say nothing. President Barack Obama, whose popularity in America up until recently rested, in part, on his…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: December 16, 2010
Every once in a while a judge attends to the Constitution, and freedom lovers cheer wildly as if this were very strange, even wondrous. I guess it is, considered in light of the sweep of human history. Should the Democrats’ “health care reform” package kick in fully, it would compel…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: May 13, 2011
As a candidate for the presidency, Mitt Romney has a number of things going for him. He’s rich, handsome, and has a funny first name. Perhaps more importantly, he’s neither Donald Trump nor Newt Gingrich. But still, he does have a niggly problem: His experience. He was the Massachusetts governor…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: May 4, 2011
Most foes of Obamacare support reform, but reform that liberalizes, rather than further burdening, the health care industry. Individuals have a right to liberty, and free markets prove inherently better than rule-bound bureaucracies at providing goods and services. Yes, even medicine. At least one health-care commissar admits this superiority .…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: October 21, 2010
Democrats filled their 2000-page healthcare bill — rammed into law despite growing and vehement public opposition — with obscure but costly mandates. As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confessed, Congress would have to pass the bill before we could learn what they were. After all, who, including congressmen, had time to…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: July 23, 2013
There’s a basic rule that folks who seek power tend to forget and those in power flout outright: the principles we foist on others must apply also to ourselves. Notoriously, Congress piles regulation over regulation upon the American people, but absolves itself from those very same laws. This became an…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: July 22, 2014
Google says health care is unhealthy. Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla has conducted what he calls a “fireside chat” with Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. In one much-cited passage, Brin observes that although he is excited about making gadgets like glucose-measuring contact lenses, health care, because “so heavily regulated,”…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: November 13, 2013
There is no mystery here. We know why the healthcare.gov website has failed, and why the emerging problems inherent in “ObamaCare” are bound to lead to even greater failure. Hubris. Pride. Incompetence. The “incompetence” so far shown, and the lies that so often follow incompetence like so many ducklings following…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: April 17, 2014
Are you tired of members of the political class foisting burdensome laws on us from which they liberally exempt themselves? Sign the petition. I mean the “No Special Deals” petition expressing support for “Senator Rand Paul's Constitutional Amendment to stop Congress from passing legislation that doesn't apply equally to U.S.…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: August 17, 2012
The n-word got dropped on MSNBC’s The Cycle this week. The show’s co-host [No First Name] Touré called Mitt Romney’s use of the word “angry” to describe some of the rhetoric coming out of the White House as “the ‘niggerization’ of Obama”: “You are not one of us, you are…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: March 9, 2011
The answer is 42. The question? Not Douglas Adams’s Ultimate Question concerning “life, the universe, and everything.” Instead, it’s the answer to the question, “How many mandates does the State of Oregon place on the medical insurance packages Oregonians are allowed to buy?” Forty-two. The number is far too large…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: November 17, 2010
Mainstream media often become so fixed on the major players in Washington, DC, that journalists miss the most telling democratic action: At state and local levels, regarding initiatives. Nicely, there are exceptions. An editorial, last week, in The Washington Times was subtitled “Ballot initiatives advance a limited government agenda in…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: January 24, 2013
People have an incredible knack for self-preservation that nations sometimes, surprisingly, lack. The United States of America is not unalterably locked into future bankruptcy, taking you and me and hordes of other innocents down together. But the road to that fateful — if not in ways “fatal” — day now…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: February 27, 2013
Monday, I lamented our deeply-indebted federal government’s policy towards the states: Bribery. It busily borrows more and more money to entice our more fiscally sound state governments into dramatically expanding Medicaid spending to ever less sustainable levels. I also noted that several Republican Governors who were long opposed to Obamacare…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: March 24, 2014
The legislative history of Idaho’s Senate Bill 1332 can be briskly told; its enactment was swift indeed. The Federal Firearm, Magazine and Register Ban Enforcement Act was introduced on the tenth of February; unanimously approved by the full Senate nine days later; leapt out of House committee, on March 10,…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: March 4, 2013
Critics of term limits on elected officials sometimes say: “You wouldn’t term-limit a neurosurgeon/fireman/[other indispensable professional] just because he’s experienced, wouldja?” No. But I am capable of distinguishing between economic power and political power — between voluntary trade and policies imposed by force. It’s all about “opting out”: we are…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: January 12, 2014
Ah, it's a hot topic, because the President wishes it so — because, above all else, he must deflect attention from his failures regarding Obamacare and everything else. So of course it deserves our attention. Maybe even embracing! Click on over to Townhall; return here for some more links to…
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…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: January 13, 2021
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…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: January 13, 2022
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…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: January 13, 2017
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…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: January 13, 2018
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…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: November 6, 2014
As we make sense of this week’s sea change — of the Great Shellacking Democrats took on Tuesday — some caution is in order. In 2006, voters did not choose the Democrats because of what they were or what they promised, but because of what they weren’t: corrupt, clueless Republicans.…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: August 6, 2012
The First Amendment isn’t enough. Because its provisions have stronger teeth than most other amendments in the Bill of Rights, it gets put into service quite a lot, to bolster other freedoms. It’s a pity there’s no general “right to freedom” — or even “freedom of contract” — amendment. A…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: November 26, 2013
“It’s all right in politics to be clever,” said George F. Will last week, “but you don’t want to look like you’re trying to be clever, because that looks tricky and sneaky.” Will, who has recently jumped ship from ABC to Fox News, was identifying the autocratic nature of current…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: August 29, 2014
Former Clinton Treasury secretary Larry Summers proposes that we switch from an eight-year, two-term limit for the union’s presidency to a six-year, single-term limit. He contends that by chucking the president’s second term, we can maybe prevent such gridlock and scandal as tends to especially afflict those second terms. Six…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: January 13, 2023
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…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: January 13, 2024
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…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: September 29, 2010
Two old words, newly relevant: Federalism and nullification. Last Sunday, on Townhall.com, I noted ten state ballot measures to watch. Third on my list was Colorado’s Amendment 63: If swing-state voters in Colorado join Missouri voters, who in August enacted a state measure protecting citizens from being forced to purchase…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: October 15, 2014
The idea of a streamlined welfare state is utterly foreign in today’s political climate. Offering some social services, but not others? Anathema — at least to our “progressives.” It is also, even more obviously, not nurtured by current political process. After all, we’ve witnessed two major expansions in “welfare” programs…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: August 29, 2013
Could medical insurance — insurance for “health care” — itself act like a drug? Are we addicts? Third-party (“insurance”) payments sure are super-convenient. But their convenience comes at a cost: insurance (and other third-party payers) that remunerate doctors and hospitals directly is what’s driving much of the price inflation in…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: March 13, 2015
Whenever I feel discouraged by the steady drumbeat of domestic assaults on liberty — from Obamacare to parents being accused of “child neglect” for letting their kids return from a playground by themselves — I try to remind myself: Things Could Be Worse. World history provides plenty of support for…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: January 12, 2019
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…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: January 13, 2020
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…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: August 12, 2010
Last week, nearly a million Missourians tramped off to the polls to choose candidates in the primary as well as decide ballot issues. One issue, Proposition C, the Healthcare Freedom Act, made history, if not the news. Missouri became the first state to vote on a specific repudiation of a…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: March 26, 2014
In the better-late-than-never department, the Internal Revenue Service has granted tax-exempt status to Friends of Abe. Variety magazine calls the group “Hollywood’s largest fellowship of conservative and right-of-center independents” in an industry known for tilting 320 degrees or so to the left. The status comes three years after the Friends…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: January 18, 2016
Sen. Rand Paul wasn’t the only thing absent from the GOP presidential stage last Thursday. Also missing? Any meaningful talk about reducing federal spending and avoiding a sovereign debt crisis. The debt looms over all our heads. But you wouldn’t know it to listen to the GOP hopefuls. (And the…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: August 21, 2016
We know that progressives will allow all sorts of enormities to be committed just so they get their precious programs. High taxes? No matter — someone else will pay! Continued wars? Well — at least we've got Obamacare! And rape? Well — that was long ago, and in another state.…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: January 10, 2014
Political donors often prefer to remain anonymous. It’s not just shyness. Anonymity can protect you from unscrupulous political opponents. The higher your profile — especially if you’re persuasive, or your story contradicts some treasured “narrative” — the higher your risk may be. At Breitbart.com, Mike Flynn writes that “non-disclosure of…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: December 4, 2013
At Monday’s White House briefing, a reporter challenged Press Secretary Jay Carney, “if you . . . hit the ‘login’ button . . . it does take you to that screen where you’re asked to leave an email and come back later. That seems to be coming up . .…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: February 6, 2014
“I promise you that we hold everybody up and down the line accountable,” President Barack Obama told Bill O’Reilly of Fox News during last Sunday’s Super Bowl interview. When studies show one in 20 food stamp transactions to be fraudulent; when the GAO finds $120 million a year spent paying…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: January 19, 2016
Bernie Sanders promises universal health care, but, up until the other day, just waved his hands in the air, without specifics. Now he has a plan. Sort of. Ezra Klein, writing at Vox, says Sanders’s “Medicare for All” is not a plan at all. It’s a “gesture towards a future…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: November 2, 2014
Click on over to Townhall for what the next Congress — the country's 114th — really needs. Hint: it isn't cowardice. Then come back here for more reading. Breitbart: True The Vote's Lawsuit Against IRS Gets Tossed By Federal Judge NYTimes: Law Lets I.R.S. Seize Accounts on Suspicion, No Crime…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: April 22, 2014
“The first thing we do,” declaims Dick the butcher, “let’s kill all the lawyers.” Last night, as I dined with attorneys David Langdon and Joshua Bolinger, in town representing the Susan B. Anthony List and the Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes before the U.S. Supreme Court today, echoes…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: October 2, 2015
Bernie Sanders has a horde of helpers. Consider the attached visual meme; “Occupy Democrats” seem to have captured Bernie’s philosophy: spend and meddle. All of the spending in the first item of Bernie’s 11-Step Economic Plan are best directed at the state level. Bernie voters should wonder: why haven’t politicians…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: January 14, 2016
On Tuesday, former (and perhaps soon to be again) First Daughter Chelsea Clinton attacked Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, her mother’s chief rival in the presidential primaries. “Sen. Sanders wants to dismantle Obamacare, dismantle the [Children’s Health Insurance Program], dismantle Medicare, dismantle private insurance,” Chelsea charged, telling an Iowa audience that…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: January 26, 2018
Congress’s failure to establish, last week, any semblance of budgetary responsibility led to one of those “government shutdowns” that the press likes to yammer about so breathlessly. Then, early this week, Senate holdouts caved, allowing a short-term fix to bring the federal government fully back to life, like the monster…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: September 13, 2017
“Voter surveys have found the GOP-controlled Congress,” I wrote last weekend at Townhall, “to be more popular among self-described Democrats than self-described Republicans.” Why? Because Republican politicians are proving themselves unable — even unwilling — to legislate as they have promised. One word: Obamacare. And few dare actually cut spending…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: June 26, 2017
We have a new president. Many people put a lot of trust in him — and many more hate him and seek to bring him down. In both cases, presidential politics takes up an inordinate portion of our brain space. Over the weekend I twice wrote about four heroic senators,…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: December 12, 2022
Maybe we can put a stop to the assault on the privacy of donors to political causes. By “we” I mean The Buckeye Institute and the Institute for Free Speech, who have teamed up to challenge “a decades-old law that forces the IRS to demand that nonprofit charities hand over…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: December 13, 2013
“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives,” wrote G.K. Chesterton. “The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.” This pretty much sums up modern politics. And it pretty much explains my lack of…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: June 29, 2017
Do politicians have any idea what they are doing? In Oregon, Senate Bill 828 just passed the Senate and is now being favorably reviewed in the House. The law would require “large employers in specified industries to provide new employee[s] with estimated work schedule and to provide current employee with…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: October 3, 2016
Americans are used to being betrayed by their political representation. This long series of infidelities has led to the current predicament, where the Republican and Democratic parties present us with the opposite of what most Americans want. Why this vexing stalemate? History. The current Democratic President, Mr. Obama, gained both…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: February 11, 2019
“Socialism” — we all want to be sociable, right? Last week’s anti-socialist moment was not limited to the president’s promise that America would never go socialist, as I noted this weekend there was also Panera Bread’s abandonment of its quasi-charitable Panera Cares (“pay-what-you-want”) fast food chain. Isn’t that a bit…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: April 23, 2017
Republicans control both houses of Congress and the White House, with a majority of Supreme Court justices having been appointed by GOP presidents. Why so little progress? Well, during six of the eight years of George W. Bush’s presidency, Republicans controlled both the White House and Congress. And what did…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: September 17, 2019
Kamala Harris laughed. She stood naked on the edge of a . . . Oops. Wrong story. The right — or, very wrong — story is Senator Harris (D–Calif.) laughing, sure. But the only thing naked is her powerlust. Why refer to the opening of the novel The Fountainhead? To…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: March 12, 2014
Van Jones, the president’s controversial former green jobs czar, who once proclaimed himself a “communist,” must have been struck by lightning last week en route to taping ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” How else to explain Jones’s strange embrace of corporate personhood? Discussing President Obama’s new “My Brother’s Keeper”…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: February 18, 2016
The latest Gallup public approval rating for our so-called “representatives” on Capitol Hill stands at 11 percent — two whole percentage points higher than 2013’s worst-ever 9 percent measure. But what if Congress changed? What if our representatives did something dramatic? You know, to show Americans that they get it,…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: March 3, 2012
Venture capitalist Eric X. Li, in an op-ed for The New York Times, “Why China’s Political Model Is Superior,” credits the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre with producing the “stability” that “ushered in a generation of growth and prosperity.” No question about the growth: China’s economy has been experiencing double-digit expansion…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: June 22, 2017
Democrats had high hopes. Their come-back after the 2016 defeats seemed near at hand. After all, Trump is proving increasingly erratic and incompetent, and the Republican mis-handling of the ObamaCare repeal appears to be a disaster of ginormous proportions. How could they not start taking seats in Congress back? There…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: August 22, 2019
“You keep using that word,” said Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride. “I do not think it means what you think it means.” He might as well have been talking to David Hogg — not Vizaini — and young Hogg’s March For Our Lives gun control advocacy group. The word?…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: September 3, 2013
Every now and then we see a flurry of news stories about the dangers of prescription drug abuse. We are told that more people misuse doctor-prescribed drugs than abuse illegal “narcotics.” Then the stories disappear for a while . . . only to return again. The problem exists, it’s large,…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: January 13, 2014
“No Justice, No Peace” is an old, vaguely threatening leftwing bumpersticker slogan advocating the amorphous concept of “economic justice.” That basic utterance, whatever it means, has currently been labeled “income equality,” leaping off car bumpers and into the political mainstream as the issue de jour of President Obama and congressional…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: January 20, 2023
The big secret of the federal government’s budget is that there isn’t one. Instead of proposing a rational budget, Congress spends money in huge omnibus bills, which sweep up most of the big items into a bucket which is then poured out into the economy. Since these buckets contain more…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: November 25, 2014
“What too few in Washington appreciate — and what the new Republican Congress must if we hope to succeed — is that the American people’s current distrust of their public institutions is totally justified.” So wrote Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) in The Federalist shortly after the big election earlier this…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: October 25, 2019
Even people who get their information only from major network news know that, in their mad rush to promise free health care, Democratic presidential hopefuls would raise taxes for nearly everybody including the “hard-working middle class.” How do they know? Because at least one of the eager promisers won’t give…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: November 8, 2012
President Barack Obama is on Tuesday’s ballot, seeking four more years as president of the United States. Like many Americans, I find that prospect deeply troubling — downright scary. Some say the nation cannot survive another four years of Mr. Obama. Though that belief probably underestimates our resilience as a…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: October 12, 2013
Depressed? Nearly suicidal after struggling for 72 hours straight to follow the federal decree commanding you to purchase an Obamacare policy online? Scared? Unable to sleep, needing desperately to reconcile a nearly $17 trillion (and growing) national debt with the massive increases in the number of your fellow citizens on…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: January 30, 2014
We’re told that “economic inequality” is on the rise . . . by the same people who took our tax dollars to bail out some folks on Wall Street and elsewhere, surely making more than minimum wage. But, once one investigates the issue beyond the buncombe level of egalitarian hysteria,…
Relevance: 14% Posted on: December 18, 2013
With it now declared to be an act of racism to dare refer to the federal government’s dramatically increased and disastrous role in our healthcare as “Obamacare” — even though President Barack Obama, himself, once did so proudly, before its onerous provisions were triggered and began to explode in the…
Relevance: 14% Posted on: December 15, 2015
On Friday, presidential candidate and Ohio Governor John Kasich rambled on for most of an hour before a room full of C&S Wholesale Grocers employees in Keene, New Hampshire. The last question came from a young man who brought up the Citizens United decision, and asked if Kasich “had a…
Relevance: 13% Posted on: July 4, 2012
Happy Independence Day! Though I understand if you are not feeling all that exultant, today. Last week’s Supreme Court decision allowing the unconstitutional 2,700-page monstrosity known as Obamacare to stand was, well, bracing. We can soberly see how far our great country has fallen from the Republic our Founders envisioned.…
Relevance: 13% Posted on: September 19, 2017
by Paul Jacob A spoiler, in politics, is a challenger whose main effect is to ruin it for insider politicians. It’s an obvious pejorative. But is the contempt for spoilers deserved? The way politicians and some in the media talk, it is as if competition were a bad thing.…
Relevance: 13% Posted on: October 14, 2014
A funny thing happened on the way to Medicaid expansion in Virginia: it didn’t happen. Governor Terry McAuliffe demanded expansion. The Washington Post and other state-worshiping media outlets insisted on its passage. The Post explained, “there remains only one reasonable solution: Republicans must ultimately compromise on expanding Medicaid.” But Republican…
Relevance: 13% Posted on: November 17, 2015
“I want to go home,” Arkansas State Senator Jon Woods whimpered last weekend. The poor, pitiful politician — announcing he would not seek election to another legislative term — cried that he had not “been fishing with [his] brother in a year.” “I have friends in my district who I…
Relevance: 13% Posted on: June 6, 2013
“Sometimes conservatives get tagged as being against all government,” said Sen. Rand Paul at a Reagan Library event the other day. “I’m not against all government. I’m actually for $2.6 trillion dollars worth,” he said. “I’m for spending what comes in, but nothing in excess of what comes in.” Yes, he’s…
Relevance: 13% Posted on: February 12, 2014
“I promise you that we hold everybody up and down the line accountable,” President Barack Obama told Bill O’Reilly of Fox News during last Sunday’s Super Bowl interview . . . and with a straight face. When studies show one in 20 food stamp transactions to be fraudulent; when the…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: December 20, 2012
When 20 kindergartners and first-graders and six adults are senselessly slaughtered at a small town elementary school by a heavily armed lunatic, it’s normal to want to do something — anything — to help make certain such a horrific event never happens again. But “never again” has proven a very…