Free to Lose

Seeded on Fri Nov 13, 2009 11:25 PM EST (The New York Times)

Consider, for a moment, a tale of two countries. Both have suffered a severe recession and lost jobs as a result — but not on the same scale. In Country A, employment has fallen more than 5 percent, and the unemployment rate has more than doubled.

jobs, politics, obama

States Draw Up Plans for Year of Even Bigger Budget Cuts

Seeded on Wed Nov 11, 2009 11:14 PM EST (Wall Street Journal)

After months of spending cuts and layoffs, states are drawing up plans for tax increases and an even larger round of service reductions next year as budget shortfalls continue to widen.

tax, budget, politics

Caution America -- The Vast Majority of Muslim Soldiers Serve With Distinction

Seeded on Mon Nov 9, 2009 3:30 AM EST (FOXNews.com)

The accused Fort Hood shooter has more in common with the murderous duo in Columbine High. He's a Palestinian-American version of Eric Harris or Dylan Klebold.

politics, al-qaeda, hasan, ft-hood

The Lords of Entitlement

Seeded on Mon Nov 9, 2009 1:09 AM EST (Wall Street Journal)

Speaker Nancy Pelosi defied policy logic and public opinion late Saturday night, ramming through the House a nearly 2,000-page health-care leviathan that counts as the biggest expansion of the federal government since the New Deal.

politics, health-care, obama, pelosi

Why won't Obama give you a job?

Seeded on Sun Nov 8, 2009 1:39 AM EST (The Washington Post)

To hear President Obama tell it, he's been busy creating jobs since taking office.

jobs, politics, obama, stimulas

Republican victories in Va., N.J. hinged on economic worries

Seeded on Thu Nov 5, 2009 12:52 AM EST (The Washington Post)

Voters worried about jobs and the shaky economy helped drive Republican gubernatorial victories in Virginia and New Jersey, according to exit polls, adding political urgency to Democratic efforts to combat the nation's surging unemployment rate.

politics

Six Election Day Lessons

Seeded on Wed Nov 4, 2009 10:31 PM EST (Townhall)

Money Doesn't Matter. Mike Bloomberg broke records by spending at least $90 million of his own money on a race for a third term as New York's Mayor, saturating the world's most costly media market for endless commercials in an effort to destroy an already feeble opponent.

politics

The "Costs" of Medical Care: Part II

Seeded on Wed Nov 4, 2009 10:29 PM EST (Townhall)

Although it is cheaper to buy a pint of milk than to buy a quart of milk, nobody considers that to be lowering the price of milk.

politics

Health Care Reform is Critically Important, But Getting Americans Back to Work is More So

Seeded on Tue Nov 3, 2009 12:52 AM EST (Yahoo! News)

Presidents tend to overcompensate for the errors of their predecessors in the same party and in so doing sow seeds of their own mistakes. Bill Clinton wanted above all to avoid Jimmy Carter's fate -- losing re-election because the economy was heading south on Election Day.

politics

Austin Hill :: Townhall.com Columnist In The Era Of Obama, Americans Have Become "the Evil Doers"

Seeded on Tue Nov 3, 2009 12:24 AM EST (Townhall)

But can anyone – even Barack Obama's most ardent supporters – honestly say that our current President believes that Americans are, in a general sense, "good people," and worthy of defense? Both his words and actions would suggest that America might someday become good, …

politics

Tighter Belts Mean Thicker Waists

Seeded on Sun Nov 1, 2009 8:23 AM EST (Wall Street Journal)

Wallets may have gotten thinner during this recession, but waistlines have expanded.

health

Inconsistent messages on Obama's stimulus package

Seeded on Sat Oct 31, 2009 5:01 AM EDT (The L.A. Times)

Confused about President Obama's stimulus package? The administration may not be the place to find clarity. The White House leadership has made statements about the stimulus that often are inconsistent -- and at odds with facts put out by the administration.

politics, obama, biden, stimulus

The Grating Communicator

Seeded on Sat Oct 24, 2009 1:51 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

The Obama administration has attacked Fox News in order to prevent government corruption stories broken on Fox from bleeding into the other media, which are all-consumed with daily updates on Levi Johnston's Playgirl spread and Carrie Prejean's breast implants.

politics, obama

Rules for Presidents

Seeded on Sat Oct 24, 2009 1:14 AM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

Blogger Donald Sensing has a fascinating analysis of President Obama's war against Fox News. He describes the effort as "directly out of the Saul Alinsky playbook." Alinsky was the author of "Rules for Radicals," bible of left-wing community organizers.

politics, news, fox, obama

Is SNL right that Obama's accomplished 'nothing'?

Seeded on Tue Oct 6, 2009 8:54 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

This weekend "Saturday Night Live" opened with Fred Armisen as President Obama, delivering an address from the Oval Office.

politics, obama, snl

Good News for Terrorists: Democratic Revisions to the PATRIOT Act

Seeded on Tue Oct 6, 2009 8:40 PM EDT (townhall)

If only terrorists would be so accommodating as not to change cell phones, the new curbs on the Patriot Act being pushed by Democrats in Congress would not be so dangerous.

congress, patriot-act, politics

Gulf States in Secret Talks to Drop Dollar

Seeded on Tue Oct 6, 2009 1:59 AM EDT (FOXNews.com)

Gulf Arab states are in secret talks with Russia, China, Japan and France to replace the U.S. dollar with a basket of currencies for the trading of oil, Britain's The Independent newspaper reported on Tuesday.

dollar, oil, education, yen

Voters Seeing Red Over ACLU Attack

Seeded on Mon Oct 5, 2009 12:09 PM EDT (townhall)

General Douglas MacArthur famously noted that "old soldiers never die; they just fade away." Sometimes, though, before they fade away, they get angry. And a case being argued in the Supreme Court Wednesday has veterans seeing red, white, and blue-but mostly red.

politics, aclu

You Have No Idea What Health Costs

Seeded on Wed Sep 23, 2009 2:07 AM EDT (The Washington Post)

The most important health-care document released this week was not Sen. Max Baucus's Healthy Future Act. It was the Kaiser Family Foundation's 2009 Employer Benefits Survey.

politics

The Real Political Divide: Attitudes Toward America

Seeded on Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:28 AM EDT (townhall)

Everyone knows that Americans are bitterly divided over politics but what is the fundamental nature of that division? What is the core disagreement that separates conservatives from liberals, right from left?

politics

A Republic, if You Can Keep It

Seeded on Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:25 AM EDT (townhall)

This Thursday, September 17th, 2009, will be the 222nd anniversary of the signing of the US Constitution. We have come a long way as a nation in that time, but have we gone the way our founding fathers intended us to go?

politics

Partisanship Plaguing Health Care Will Hound Obama's Agenda

Seeded on Tue Sep 15, 2009 2:48 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

If President Obama genuinely believed that he could tamp down the hyper-partisanship that has come to dominate American politics, he had quite the education over the summer. He now knows better.

politics

Insurance tax may not hit just top executives Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/12/BU3919LRDF.DTL#ixzz0Qxgrcq9S

Seeded on Sun Sep 13, 2009 1:32 AM EDT (The San Francisco Chronicle)

In his speech on health care reform last week, President Obama endorsed a plan to charge insurance companies a "fee" on their "most expensive policies."

health