Keeping score

100. “Don t think we re not keeping score brother.”
via 100 DAYS, 100 MISTAKES FOR BARACK OBAMA – New York Post.

Obama’s budget cut scam

35 Inconvenient Truths: The errors in Al Gore’s movie

We now itemize 35 of the scientific errors and exaggerations in Al Gore’s movie. The first nine were listed by the judge in the High Court in London in October 2007 as being “errors.” The remaining 26 errors are just as inaccurate or exaggerated as the nine spelt out by the judge, who made it [...]

Fiscal patronization

To put those numbers in perspective, imagine that the head of a household with annual spending of $100,000 called everyone in the family together to deal with a $34,000 budget shortfall. How much would he or she announce that spending had to be cut? By $3 over the course of the year–approximately the cost of [...]

Just the facts

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on [...]

Bully in the kitchen

In the aftermath of President Barack Obama s timid performance when face-to-face with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez — who has cast the United States as among many things an “imperialist monster” even as he goes about systematically repressing his own people and making alliances with American enemies — it is worth recalling just [...]

Spending to oblivion

All told, Obama’s agenda is projected to more than double the public debt to $17.3 trillion by 2019, according to the Congressional Budget Office, equal to a staggering 82.4 percent of the economy.
Obama will be hard-pressed to pay off that debt without either massive, broad-based tax increases, or printing enough money to pay off the [...]

States Rebellion Pending

Congress and the White House will laugh off these state resolutions. State legislatures must take measures that put some teeth into their 10th Amendment resolutions. Congress will simply threaten a state, for example, with a cutoff of highway construction funds if it doesn’t obey a congressional mandate, such as those that require seat belt laws [...]

Democracy and Majority Rule

Alert to the dangers of majoritarian tyranny, the Constitution’s framers inserted several anti-majority rules. One such rule is that election of the president is not decided by a majority vote but instead by the Electoral College. Nine states have over 50 percent of the U.S. population. If a simple majority were the rule, conceivably these [...]

America’s secret government

Government secrecy has become the norm under this administration, particularly when it comes to the financial bailout. Exhibit A is a gag order preventing banks from divulging how they performed on the Treasury Department’s financial “stress tests.”
With trillions of their dollars being thrown to the wind, taxpayers have a legitimate interest in knowing how it [...]