A pretty stunning late-Friday news dump in the New York Times: The community organizing group Acorn, battered politically from the right and suffering from mismanagement along with a severe loss of government and other funds, is on the verge of
After a successful video town hall in Pennsylvania, various members of congress will once again gather to video conference another area: Fresno, California. Led by Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, Congressman Todd Akin, Congressman Steve King and various other members of congress.
As we write this short essay, we are being promised by Nancy Pelosi that the health care bill will be posted online so that we and those who will “deem” it already to have been enacted can actually read it.
I wanted to let all my friends in Pittsburgh know about a great opportunity that will be happening TONIGHT! Several members of congress will be appearing live via a video town hall at the Four Points By Sheraton Pittsburgh North,
Nobody has to read the 2,310 pages of the health care bill to know why it will ruin health care in America. You don’t have to go any further than page 49, which marks the end of Subtitle E, “Governance,”
All over the country, voters have been flooding their representatives with calls, letters and emails urging them to kill the current healthcare bill. Instead of killing the healthcare bill, Congress is now talking about the “Slaughter solution.” Don’t be confused.
While America is distracted by Democrats’ attempts to unconstitutionally ram government-run healthcare down the throats of the American people, the Obama administration began preparing to resume funding to President Obama’s favorite community organizing group. The fiscal floodgates are opening for
President Obama has been barnstorming the country saying that CBO scores his health care takeover plan as reducing the deficit by over $100 billion in the first 10 years, and by almost a trillion dollars over the second 10 years.
In yet another admirable display of the right kind of Attorney General activism, Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli has put House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on notice that what she and the Democratic leadership are reportedly scheming to pass Health Care ‘reform’
Headline writing has always been an art. From my earliest days as print newsman, finding the right words to tell a story and fit the allotted space was a routine challenge that often sparked some of the liveliest debates in
It’s not often that we can give credit to Barney Frank but when it comes to the issue of Financial Reform at least we can say is he was honest enough to put a price tag on the proposed permanent
Here is an idea: Greece is getting ready to sell some of its assets to pay for its gigantic debt (Corfu and the Parthenon are not on the auction block yet), and the US should do the same. According to
In the comments to Big Hollywood’s recent post about the box office catastrophe that is “The Green Zone,” one frequent poster, and noted leftist, gave us a “teachable moment.” In a nutshell, this poster said that the antithesis to “The
The Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner remarks that President Obama’s efforts to force his health-care bill on a very skittish Congress are beginning to look like an arm-twisting scene from “The Sopranos.” Those who back his proposal receive special favors whereas,
The always impressive John Kass in today’s Chicago Tribune: Not even three or four pipes full of Hopium could have convinced me that the Congress of the United States would ever start looking like the Chicago City Council. But now,
This week will be a defining moment for Congress and our country. As Democratic leaders map out their health care end game, we as elected officials have a choice to make: Will people control their lives, or will government? The
President Obama and congressional Democrats are claiming that a giant new entitlement program will reduce red ink. It’s tempting to laugh and dismiss such a preposterous claim. After all, these are the same people who told us that squandering $787
Group is undone in national scandal sparked by videos showing illegal activity From today’s Baltimore Sun: A former leader of Maryland’s ACORN chapter said Monday the group will no longer operate in the state, doomed by an embarrassing national scandal
The Cincinnati Enquirer nails it today: America’s robust discussion of health care reform during the past year has been beneficial in many ways, giving the public greater awareness and insight into this complex issue. Unfortunately, the debate has been held
ABC News: To get the needed 216 votes in the House, Democratic leaders are focusing their efforts on the 37 lawmakers who voted against the health care bill the first time around. So far, 21 of those members of Congress
Today, Sen. Mitch McConnell and I make our case against ObamaCare in the Wall Street Journal: A little over a year ago, when President Obama first took up health-care reform, Republicans reached out to him in the hopes of working
Five weeks ago, on February 8, Bloomberg.com brought us assurances from Treasury Secretary Timmy Geithner concerning the stability of the U.S. debt rating. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said the U.S. is in no danger of losing its AAA debt
Knowing that the 111th Democrat-Progressive ruled Congress is indeed tyrannical in its endeavors to ram through ObamaCare, the Left continuously touts that the American people want this bill. Now, I have seen the polls and so have you, and so
Many of my friends are currently unemployed or underemployed. They graduated from Claremont McKenna, one of the finest colleges in America, but have found it tough to get jobs. But one alum from our college, Jordan Barab, CMC ’75, is
The Debt Sea, that ocean of red ink that threatens to overflow its banks and inundate every nook and cranny in America from Main Street to Wall street, is bordered on the south by the Potomac River, to the east-southeast
