Archive for March, 2009
March 31st, 2009 | 
Author: ‘Why isn’t anyone talking about this? Because it’s not socialist.
Health Status Insurance’ Provides Real Alternative To Universal Care
None of us has health "insurance," really. If you develop a long-term condition such as heart disease or cancer, and then lose your job,…
IBDeditorials.com Commentary and Cartoons / Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:48:42 GMT
I hope the voters remember and make them suffer at the next election. Or maybe it’s time to leave NY. Tax increases, but no cuts.
New York’s $132 billion budget, on course to be rubber-stamped to night, is an unbridled disaster for the state — but a big win for its public-employee unions and their bought-and-paid-for front, the ubiquitous Working Families Party. The…
NY Post: Post Opinion / Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:36:58 GMT
IF the new state budget deal is a high way robbery of New York taxpayers, then the Working Families Party is driving the getaway car. Most New Yorkers know the Working Families Party, if at all, from its agitation for the left-wing cause du jour…
NY Post: Post Opinion / Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:36:02 GMT
Rotten sausage: Paterson, Silver and Smith produce a budget that’s excessively bad for New York
Battered by historic job losses, steep reductions in benefits, plummeting home values and stagnant wages, New Yorkers across the state have been forced to make tough choices. But not in Albany.
Opinions – NY Daily News / Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:15:13 GMT
Our representative to the world!
Hillary Clinton asks who painted the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico.
POLITICO Top Stories / Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:06:17 GMT
Buy a GM. The government is now guaranteeing car warranties.
A New Era of Govt-Controlled Business?
Team Obama fired GM CEO Rick Wagoner Sunday afternoon, just a short time after Treasury man Tim Geithner told the television talk shows that some banks will need large amounts of new TARP-money government assistance — even though the bankers don’t want it. Does this smack of big-time government planning and industrial policy? Another lurch to the left for economic policy? Remember, as bad as Wagoner’s performance has been over the years, it was the federal government — not shareholders or the board of directors — that threw him under the bus. (By the way, GM’s board is being thrown under that same bus.) And I’m not arguing in favor of Wagoner or his board; they’ve made a zillion mistakes. But I am wondering if we’ve officially entered a new era of government-controlled business.
RealClearPolitics – Articles / Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:00:00 GMT
Firing Wagoner a White House Power Grab
Firing Rick Wagoner is a sideshow to distract us from the fact that the administration has no progress to announce today. The administration is hoping the media and the public will stay focused on Wagoner and fail to notice that negotiations have not progressed since December. The administration is pursuing much of what we pushed for in December, but the delay of several months has increased the severity and sent billions of taxpayer dollars down the drain. Now any investment is likely unrecoverable and we are putting more and more jobs at the OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) and the supply chain at risk in a politically charged environment.
RealClearPolitics – Articles / Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:24:55 GMT
Stock up on light bulbs now why you have the chance.
Don’t like CFLs? Ask your pet about them
Are feds dictating new light bulbs before they’re ready?
WorldNetDaily / Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:41:00 GMT
Get’s better everyday. 2010 will be here soon, and hopefully he will be gone.
SEN. DODD’S CAVALCADE OF SCANDAL
IT’S been a rotten year for Chris Dodd. Time and again, the Connecticut senator has been caught both doing favors for heavy hitters and receiving them — and then lying about it. Sometimes the mess involves a firm like AIG or Countrywide…
NY Post: Post Opinion / Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:05:44 GMT
Once again, do as I say, not as I do.
Did Gore turn off his lights for Earth Hour?
Driveway to Nashville mansion flooded with electricity
WorldNetDaily / Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:25:00 GMT
Let’s see if this is covered in the US by the main stream media.
Video alleged to show Joe Biden’s daughter snorting cocaine
Video footage allegedly of Vice President Joe Biden’s daughter Ashley snorting cocaine has been offered for sale to several news organisations.
Telegraph World News / Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:48:01 GMT
Long waits, rationing,more deaths. I guess the rest of the world will have to find another country to go to for health care. Where will we go?
How U.S. Health Care Really Stacks Up
Facts: A movie has been made solely to criticize it. The left treats it as if it’s an invader that must be repelled. Most Americans, however, are…
IBDeditorials.com Commentary and Cartoons / Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:48:12 GMT
The Massachusetts debacle, coming soon to your neighborhood.
WSJ.com: Opinion / Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:00:44 GMT
Fact: After the economically debilitating 9/11 terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush cut income and investment tax rates across the board. The result was well over 8 million new jobs generated and about 4.5% unemployment for a long time.
You wouldn’t know this from listening to Pelosi, and Obama.
Fiscal Policy: President Obama claims that Republicans "don’t offer an alternative budget." In fact, they do, and it costs far less and…
IBDeditorials.com Commentary and Cartoons / Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:48:12 GMT
Let’s face it: If youngsters can’t even fantasize about becoming the next Bill Gates or Warren Buffet, what "hope" is there for the American dream?
Not much — alas.
Welcome to Obama World.
Exactly
WHY IS THE PREZ SNUFFING OUT HOPE?
BARACK Obama wrote a book about hope and be came president promising it. So why’s he doing everything in his power to snuff it out? Think about it: In Obama World, what are we supposed to "hope" for? Certainly not vast riches. What would be…
NY Post: Post Opinion / Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:52:03 GMT
The former Soviet Union, China and many other nations tried this type of central planning and history weeps at how that turned out. We had hoped that this debate was over decades ago.
And we, also, will be weeping soon.
EDITORIAL: Uncle Sam’s heavy hand
The Obama administration is on the fast track to socialism with twin announcements from Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. First he announced this week that he wants to limit the salaries at all banks, all Wall Street firms and possibly other companies. He also wants the power to seize non-bank financial institutions, such as insurance companies and investment firms, that the government will determine are "too big to fail" – whatever that means.
stories: Editorials / Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:45:00 GMT
Diebold and Skeel: Geithner Is Overreaching on Regulatory Power
We don’t need more politics in our economics.
WSJ.com: Opinion / Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:11:47 GMT
There won’t be any.
The Obama Administration has ridden into Washington at a crisis moment, which has enabled them to say things one never expected to hear in America. They have been bracingly forthright about their willingness to take over large businesses that have received government assistance. And Congress’s Democratic leaders, who have never hidden their disdain for private management, have had no one to check their cries, most recently, to modify employment contracts wholesale and impose retroactive salary caps on middle-income people at financial companies. Keep in mind that the Federal government has long been about 22% of the economy, and Obama has suddenly increased that share to 28%. So you really can’t be a large business and not do business with the government. Does that mean every large company, not just failing banks, can now expect Washington to "suggest" changes in how they operate, including what businesses they choose to engage in, and how much they can pay their people?
RealClearPolitics – Articles / Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:37:53 GMT
Once again he takes the prize. How does he keep getting reelected.
Watchdog: Barney Frank Is Porker of the Month
Newsmax – Inside Cover / Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:38:19 GMT
Obama’s legions.
The $6 Bil National Service Boondoggle
Maybe it’s just me, but I find federal legislation titled the GIVE Act and the SERVE Act downright creepy. Even more troubling: the $6 billion…
IBDeditorials.com Commentary and Cartoons / Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:19:39 GMT
Let’s hope the don’t become big dictators.
Congress: The spectacle of the very same people responsible for one of the nation’s great financial calamities angling to be given even more…
IBDeditorials.com Commentary and Cartoons / Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:08:16 GMT
Get your pitchfork’s ready. Next stop their houses.
THOMAS: Channel anger at Pelosi, Frank, Dodd
One of the more familiar sayings in politics is, "Don’t get angry, get even."
stories: Editorials / Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:45:00 GMT
Does this surprise anyone? As long as they keep growing, they will have to start covering them.
Media Bias: The press need not support every protest it covers. But when it ignores a grass fire movement against government spending while its…
IBDeditorials.com Commentary and Cartoons / Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:08:16 GMT
Another Obama plot to nationalize the banks.
Why Congress Will Kill the Bank Rescue
What happens when the hedge funds make profits?
WSJ.com: Opinion / Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:21:02 GMT
Obama’s Just Not That Into You
Does President Obama truly believe that he can castigate and condemn Wall Street on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and then secure its cooperation on the other days of the week? Does he not understand that when he ignites a public furor over AIG bonuses and then incites Congress to pass a punitive tax, he sends shivers down the spines of every other corporate executive who makes a lot of money?
RealClearPolitics – Articles / Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:20:23 GMT
Spector sees the light. Or maybe he’s just scared.
Chipping away at the support for "card check."
WSJ.com: Opinion / Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:31:35 GMT
What can I say? He sent his kids to private school.
Nat Hentoff indicts president over his silence on killing of D.C. voucher program
WorldNetDaily Commentary / Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:00:00 GMT
Yes, this is Amerika
And So Begins Another Week Of Malfeasance
With the braying of 328 yahoos — members of the House of Representatives who voted for retroactive and punitive use of the tax code to…
IBDeditorials.com Commentary and Cartoons / Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:04:32 GMT
Regulation: The Obama administration is considering placing caps on the pay of executives beyond those whose companies took bailout cash. We…
IBDeditorials.com Commentary and Cartoons / Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:04:32 GMT
Isn’t this same argument AIG made?
Official defends Fannie bonuses
He says there’s a ‘great risk" of key employees walking away if they don’t pay out.
POLITICO Top Stories / Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:30:33 GMT
Better hide whatever’s left in your piggy bank.
EDITORIAL: Obama budget breaks the bank
House and Senate Democratic leaders are looking to pass the Obama administration’s $3.6 trillion federal budget for 2010 by the end of next week, but the lawmakers under them should take into account the shocking deficit impact and fight to reign in the proposal. We’re not holding our breath that they will do so, despite the immense deficit predictions announced Friday by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.
stories: Editorials / Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:45:00 GMT
Hey, something’s wrong here.
A lesson in fiscal restraint.
WSJ.com: Opinion / Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:31:41 GMT
It’s not socialism.
Obama’s Stimulus Has "Spread the Wealth Around": Are Tax Hikes Next?
President Obama famously said during the campaign that he thinks the economy works best when "we spread the wealth around." He is wasting no time pursuing this redistributionist agenda, and he is using the tax code to do it. The Wrong Medicine The so-called "stimulus" bill (H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) created the refundable Making Work Pay Credit, increased and made refundable the Hope Scholarship Credit (now renamed the American Opportunity Education Credit), and increased the two largest existing refundable credits, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the Child Tax Credit. To the extent these credits are refundable, they are really spending run through the tax code and as such will do nothing to boost the ailing economy.
RealClearPolitics – Articles / Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:00:00 GMT
I couldn’t have said it better.
Exclusive: Joseph Farah doesn’t want to be part of a nation that would elect such a man
WorldNetDaily Commentary / Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:00:00 GMT
The AIG tragic comedy, and Senators who don’t read the laws they pass. And the fool of the week is: Chris Dodd.
Sen. Christopher Dodd — the largest recipient of AIG executives’ political contributions in the U.S. Senate, according to the Center for Responsive Politics — told CNN Tuesday that he had no idea who inserted that language into the Obama stimulus bill. Then Wednesday, Dodd was forced to admit he himself had submitted that language — at the request of the Obama Treasury Department.
The White House was also in the loop. Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) says that the administration asked him to attach a provision to the stimulus bill that authorized such bonuses. Dodd protests that he only agreed because he didn’t understand what the measure would do.
Maybe other people who voted for it in the Senate and House didn’t either. Maybe Dodd and the rest ought to read legislation before they approve it.
A Hidden Agenda Behind the 90% Tax?
RealClearMarkets / Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:36:08 GMT
RealClearMarkets / Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:16:17 GMT
AIG and Our Embarrassing Congress
Congress is outraged. Really, really outraged. Unbelievably, incredibly outraged. And there are certainly grounds for anger. Not at the insurance company AIG, which paid bonuses that are seen as intolerable, but at Congress, which blithely declined to prohibit them but is now shocked to find AIG doing what it was allowed to do. The Democrats who control Capitol Hill want revenge, as do many Republicans. So the House voted by a 328-93 margin to impose a 90 percent tax on the payments.
RealClearPolitics – Articles / Sun, 22 Mar 2009 06:00:00 GMT
Maybe Obama should spend some time working instead of going on Leno, and worrying about college basketball.
Aides attempt to cover for Obama
To hear his camp tell it, President Obama has been in the dark about at least two issues that broiled into controversies this week. Republicans are jumping at the chance to cast doubts about the White House’s operations.
stories: Latest Headlines / Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:45:09 GMT
This is scary.
EDITORIAL: ACORN to count heads for Census
First it was President Obama trying to break all precedent and run the 2010 census from within the White House. While the administration finally backed down from that politicization of the census, it clearly hasn’t learned its lesson.
stories: Editorials / Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:45:00 GMT
Yes, another tax cheat.
Congressman Pete Stark represents California, but where is he paying taxes?
WSJ.com: Opinion / Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:13:23 GMT
Where will it stop? When are they going to fix the problem. and stop this nonsense?
WASHINGTON — A $14 trillion economy hangs by a thread composed of (a) a comically cynical, pitchfork-wielding Congress, (b) a hopelessly understaffed, stumbling Obama administration, and (c) $165 million. That’s $165 million in bonus money handed out to AIG debt manipulators who may be the only ones who know how to defuse the bomb they themselves built. Now, in the scheme of things, $165 million is a rounding error. It amounts to less than 1/18,500 of the $3.1 trillion federal budget. It’s less than one-tenth of 1 percent of the bailout money given to AIG alone. If Bill Gates were to pay these AIG bonuses every year for the next 100 years, he’d still be left with more than half his personal fortune.
RealClearPolitics – Articles / Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:20:00 GMT
Barney Frank as Madame Defarge
"It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob … but to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger." — Charles Caleb Colton "The mob is the mother of tyrants." — Diogenes Shamelessness is the order of the day. If I were an AIG executive entitled by law to a large "retention" bonus negotiated before the taxpayers had bailed out my company, I hope I would have the decency to refuse it. Reward for a job well done in the private sector is one thing. Suckling from the government sow is another. And it is particularly galling to reward mismanagement!
RealClearPolitics – Articles / Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:00:00 GMT
By Ian Bremmer and Sean West All investors have reason to worry about Washington’s readiness to bend the law.
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WSJ.com: Opinion / Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:13:23 GMT
The pitchforks are out. More bungling.
Fanning populist furies won’t help the financial system.
WSJ.com: Opinion / Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:09:07 GMT
As AIG Proves, The Gov’t Can’t Run Anything
This whole AIG fiasco — where the entire political class is suddenly screaming over bonuses paid to derivative traders in AIG’s financial…
IBDeditorials.com Commentary and Cartoons / Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:27:41 GMT
If the Libs love European socialism so much, why don’t they move there. Big government, less freedom.
In a move that certainly pleased unions, within days of taking office Mr. Obama issued executive orders rescinding requirements for workers to be informed of their right not to pay portions of union dues attributable to political activities with which they may disagree.
Two Steps Back on Labor Rights
Why would American workers want European stagnation and unemployment?
WSJ.com: Opinion / Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:11:28 GMT
Hope you like drinking from flower vases when you’re thirsty.
Medicine: Establishing universal government health care might cost as much as $1.5 trillion, according to one new estimate. And what’ll we get? As…
IBDeditorials.com Commentary and Cartoons / Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:27:41 GMT
Another corrupt Democrat. And lest we forget, didn’t she defend Fannie Mae.
Waters’ use of funds faces scrutiny
Waters defends and ignores criticism, and she hardly suffers at the polls.
POLITICO Top Stories / Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:38:44 GMT
Don’t you just love the objective media?
A Front-Page Story: President McCain’s First 50 Days
Suppose Sen. John McCain, rather than Sen. Barack Obama, won the presidency but made the same decisions and pursued the same goals to turn around the economy. The following is a hypothetical front-page story: After more than 50 days in office, the new President, even to some of his supporters, seems overwhelmed by the magnitude of the problems he faces. Though he calls the economy job one, he confounds critics and supporters alike with the most audacious, ideologically driven agenda since the Great Depression, if not in the history of the republic.
RealClearPolitics – Articles / Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:00:00 GMT
What a farce!
This whole AIG fiasco — where the entire political class is suddenly screaming over bonuses paid to derivative traders in AIG’s financial-products division — is just a complete farce. What it really shows is how the government has completely bungled the AIG takeover. Blame the Bush administration and the Obama administration. It also shows, once again, why the government shouldn’t run anything, because it cannot run anything. AIG should have been placed in bankruptcy last fall under some sort of government sponsorship. While in bankruptcy, all the salary contracts (and every other AIG contract) would have been nullified and voided. At the same time, there would have been an orderly liquidation and sale of AIG’s assets and separate divisions.
RealClearPolitics – Articles / Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:30:00 GMT
The Kabuki Theater of AIG Outrage
All the world’s a stage, wrote Shakespeare, and in the world of Washington, the curtains have opened on the most elaborate farce of the year. Welcome, taxpayers, to the Kabuki Theater of AIG Outrage — where D.C.’s histrionic enablers of taxpayer-funded corporate bailouts compete for Best Performance of Hypocritical Indignation. Over the weekend, cloaked in their finest populist costumes, the Beltway’s hair-sprayed and powdered politicians and White House aides took to the airwaves to inveigh against $165 million in employee retention payments made by the government-backed insurance giant. Those bennies were reportedly part of a larger $450 million round of bonuses. After subpoenaing AIG, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo informed Congress that 73 employees in the very division responsible for the financial meltdown received bonuses of $1 million or more — 11 of whom left the company after getting the cash to retain them.
RealClearPolitics – Articles / Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:00:00 GMT
Exactly what they want. More people dependant on government, stuck in a hopeless life of dependency, and guaranteed votes.
Big Government: Even many liberals thought the 1996 reform ended the welfare debate forever. That Congress’ stimulus unravels that landmark law…
IBDeditorials.com Commentary and Cartoons / Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:36:57 GMT
The left’s strategy. Time for us to get the word out better than they.
Obama’s New Community: Hill Democrats
Republicans are still awestruck at how Barack Obama was able to get every Democrat in the House and Senate to vote for his stimulus package…
IBDeditorials.com Commentary and Cartoons / Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:36:57 GMT
Would they have still voted for him?
Now You Tell Us, Mr. President
Imagine that last fall before being elected, Barack Obama had outlined the positions he has embraced since being inaugurated as president.
IBDeditorials.com Commentary and Cartoons / Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:36:57 GMT
Should have seen this coming. Let me see if understand this correctly. The government is willing to pay more for people on welfare, bail out undeserving corporations, and home buyers, but when it comes to the men and women defending us, they are told to go elsewhere. Hail the commander and chief.
Will Obama Go AWOL on VA Health Benefits?
Wounded soldiers deserve support.
WSJ.com: Opinion / Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:03:49 GMT
Alert the media. They got it wrong again.
Mideast: In most ways, the news from Iraq couldn’t be better. People there feel more secure, and are more committed to democracy, than ever. Is it…
IBDeditorials.com Commentary and Cartoons / Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:26:50 GMT
People, not corporations, pay taxes.
How Congress Deprives Us Of Prosperity
Ask the average person which is the correct answer to the following question: Which president gave the biggest tax cuts for the rich — Reagan or…
IBDeditorials.com Commentary and Cartoons / Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:26:50 GMT
Will he screw these up the same way he is the economy?
EDITORIAL: Obama and the Iranian bomb
Iran’s mullahs are set to achieve what decades of western diplomacy could not – bring about Arab/Israeli détente. Fears of nuclear weapons in the hands of Tehran’s revolutionary Shiite regime are forcing a shotgun marriage of Tel Aviv and the Sunni Arab states in a stunning triumph of power politics over historical hatreds. The Washington Times recently had an opportunity to sit down with an Israeli source who told us, “You’d be amazed at how we see eye-to-eye with the moderate Arab states.”
stories: Editorials / Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:45:02 GMT
It was probably inevitable that the American left would turn sharply against the war in Afghanistan the moment it was politically opportune.
WSJ.com: Opinion / Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:31:04 GMT
Great, another Barney Frank fiasco in the making. He did so well with Fannie, and Freddie.
Congress Is the Real Systemic Risk
After Fannie and Freddie, you’d think Congress would no longer be interested in creating companies seen by the market as backed by the government.
WSJ.com: Opinion / Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:24:08 GMT
So, is the Porkulus bill, and the expanded social programs even necessary, or was it just an excuse?
Bernanke says recession could end in 2009 (AP)
AP – America’s recession "probably" will end this year if the government succeeds in bolstering the banking system, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Sunday in a rare television interview.
Yahoo! News: Top Stories / Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:24:55 GMT
Yes, we know it’s incompetent, but what does it matter as long as we save the planet, bail out undeserving people, give everyone government run health care, and throw more money away trying to solve the education system.
Does Obama Know What He’s Doing?
The furor over the huge federal spending under President Obama – a $1.75 trillion deficit, 13 percent – obscures an even more basic question: Does he know what he is doing? That is, does he know how to do anything other than spend? His stimulus package, of course, took no special ability: He left the details to Democrats in Congress. But his two other major initiatives – his banking and mortgage-relief plans – are both flawed and unlikely to solve their respective problems.
RealClearPolitics – Articles / Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:20:35 GMT
"Never waste a good crisis" has become the semi-official motto of the Obama administration.
stories: Editorials / Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:45:00 GMT
Well at least someone is doing well. Business is booming, gun battles at our borders, and the Secretary of Homeland Security does nothing.
Mexican Drug King Makes Forbes Billionaire List
Newsmax – Inside Cover / Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:52:04 GMT
EDITORIAL: Adrift on border security
Department of Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano seems to be floundering on immigration and national security issues.
stories: Editorials / Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:45:00 GMT
Hope people will finally learn. If it’s too good to be true, it is, and do your due diligence.
Bernie Madoff Had Accomplices: His Victims
RealClearMarkets / Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:37:43 GMT
Oh, I think he is focusing on the things he wants.
Friendly Fire Shows Obama Losing Focus
We’ve been hearing a lot of criticism of Barack Obama in recent days from pro-Obama corners — from celebrity investor Warren Buffett,…
IBDeditorials.com Commentary and Cartoons / Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:02:37 GMT
Couldn’t agree more
Star Parker: Republican Party needs a chairman who will step up and fight the fight
WorldNetDaily Commentary / Sat, 14 Mar 2009 06:00:00 GMT
Could this be why Obama wants everyone, young and old to get a college education?
Education: A new survey shows America’s professors downgrading the classics and elevating social activism as a teaching goal. There must be…
IBDeditorials.com Commentary and Cartoons / Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:36:24 GMT
More of your money down the tubes, and out the door.
Economy: At least 300,000 of those stimulus jobs will go to illegal aliens who are likely to send that money home to their native countries. Just…
IBDeditorials.com Commentary and Cartoons / Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:36:24 GMT
The $787 billion stimulus bill is about as long as the Manhattan phone book and as full of surprises. We just found another doozy.
stories: Editorials / Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:45:00 GMT
As the markets, your money, your children’s and grandchildren’s futures and your freedoms go to hell.
Schoen and Rasmussen: Obama’s Poll Numbers Are Falling to Earth
The president’s approval rating is below George W. Bush’s in the same period of 2001.
WSJ.com: Opinion / Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:34:49 GMT
The laugh of the week is
Get Ready For Barney Frank’s Regulatory Overhaul
RealClearMarkets / Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:31:48 GMT
So did Obama fudge the numbers?
Do We Really Need More College Grads?
The first seven weeks of Barack Obama’s presidency have been notable for the use of our economic turmoil as an excuse for showering money and…
IBDeditorials.com Commentary and Cartoons / Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:38:10 GMT
Budget? What budget?
GREGG: Old image of cost-cutting is out
The term "budget" usually conjures up images such as setting limits in order to help individuals, families and businesses spend within their means and avoid running up unaffordable debts. But not anymore. Under the Obama administration, a budget now means just the opposite of what one would intuitively think it means.
stories: Editorials / Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:45:00 GMT
More false assumptions.
Obama’s $80 Billion Exaggeration
There’s no evidence electronic medical records will save the money the president claims.
WSJ.com: Opinion / Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:36:00 GMT
The Dem’s should listen. It’s what we’ve been saying all along. Or maybe they don’t care.
Old Europe Is Right on Stimulus
A new Keynesian analysis rebuts the Obama estimates.
WSJ.com: Opinion / Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:36:00 GMT
Oh, how good it feels when they fall.
Another funny transaction for the Ethics Committee.
WSJ.com: Opinion / Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:36:00 GMT
More scandal.
2 arrests in Obama appointee’s office
Feds search D.C. office of Vivek Kundra, who was recently named Obama’s chief information officer.
POLITICO Top Stories / Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:29:58 GMT
But of course. Wouldn’t want the princess to fly commercial like the rest of us peons. We just get to pay for it.
Air Force called Pelosi’s personal taxi service
Taxpayers foot bill for House speaker’s erratic demands for military planes
WorldNetDaily / Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:42:00 GMT
Queen Nancy: Fly as I Say, Not as I Fly
Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is the Jennifer Lopez of congressional travel — fickle, demanding and notoriously insensitive to the time, costs and energy needed to accommodate her endless demands. On Tuesday, the indispensable government watchdog Judicial Watch released a trove of public records through the Freedom of Information Act on Pelosi’s travel arrangements with the U.S. military. As speaker of the House, Pelosi is entitled to a reasonable level of military protection and transport. But it’s the size of the planes, the frequency of requests and last-minute cancellations, and the political nature of many of her trips that scream out for accountability.
RealClearPolitics – Articles / Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:00:00 GMT
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Health Care: Americans need to ask themselves if they really want to drive private insurers out of the medical marketplace, because that’s what…
IBDeditorials.com Commentary and Cartoons / Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:46:28 GMT
Tell us something we don’t know. Like how he is going to stop making things worse and start making them better?
EDITORIAL: Obama’s part in Wall Street plunge
For reasons due to both words and deeds, President Obama is far from blameless that the stock market has plunged 32 percent since Election Day, with over 80 percent of that taking place after the beginning of the year.
stories: Editorials / Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:45:00 GMT
What are we to believe?
EDITORIAL: Too rosy for even a Nobel Prize winner?
The Obama administration is basing its budget forecasts on the economy growing an eyebrow-raising 15.6 percent above inflation between 2008 and 2013 – a drop of 1.2 percent this year followed by an average of 4 percent growth over the following four years. That’s very impressive growth for any period of time.
stories: Editorials / Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:45:00 GMT
The bullies are back.
Big Labor gets nasty on ‘card check.’
WSJ.com: Opinion / Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:50:04 GMT
What can I say? You get what you pay for?
Obama Reminds Us It’s Not His Fault
There are few things more satisfying than unloading your righteous rage on one of those insatiably greedy Wall Street bankers. We have Gordon Gekko to blame. Barack Obama has George W. Bush. So while the president is busy radically centralizing the nation’s economy, he, in a superbly eloquent and inspirational pitch, always reminds us that nothing is his fault. If Washington had a buck to spare, it still wouldn’t stop at the top. But let’s, for the sake of argument, concede that presidents trigger recessions. Well, then, we also must concede that nearly every initiative enacted in the first 50 days by the Obama administration has exacerbated what Bush started.
RealClearPolitics – Articles / Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:25:00 GMT
Yes, he really is the Manchurian Candidate.
EDITORIAL: Obama’s reliance on teleprompters
Is President Obama able to conduct a news conference without a teleprompter? Is he is an automaton in answering questions? With all the jokes about Karl Rove as George Bush’s brain or cracks during the 1980s about Ronald Reagan supposedly being an amiable dunce, could you imagine the reaction if either president had used a teleprompter to answer questions? The late night joke writers wouldn’t have let it go until the president gave in to the merciless ridicule as he was painted as an idiot who couldn’t tie his shoes without being fed instructions on how to do it.
stories: Editorials / Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:45:00 GMT
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Let’s see. Irresponsible home buyers will be paid incentives for doing what they are required to do. Renters who were responsible and did not buy above their means get nothing.
Housing Rescue Confronts Wall of Negatives
RealClearMarkets / Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:13:58 GMT
The High Cost Of Subsidizing Bad Decisions
Now that the federal government has decided to bail out homeowners in trouble, with mortgage loans up to $729,000, that raises some questions that…
IBDeditorials.com Commentary and Cartoons / Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:08:20 GMT
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Now we know why he has done nothing. Doesn’t look pretty.
Tim Geithner’s $2 Trillion Black Hole
RealClearMarkets / Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:58:10 GMT
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The new mantra, "Never let a crisis go to waste"
Politics: This administration continues to express its desire to take advantage of the economy’s downturn. It’s now clearer than ever what…
IBDeditorials.com Commentary and Cartoons / Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:08:20 GMT
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Here’s some good news:
Sen. Chris Dodd’s Poll Numbers Plummet in Connecticut
Newsmax – Inside Cover / Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:03:19 GMT
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Oh the hypocrisy!!
Liberals oppose a tax hike on rich donors.
WSJ.com: Opinion / Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:10:20 GMT
How come we didn’t hear about this then, but all we are hearing about is how Rush Limbaugh wants Obama’s policies to fail?