Government by Tantrum

“Waaaaa! You’re not playing fair!” “Waaaaa! You’re going to bankrupt America!” “Waaaaa! You guys started it!” The crybabies in Washington are at it again. Arguing, name-calling and throwing heated rhetoric around like “extortion” and “blow the whole thing up,” our so-called leaders are acting like out-of-control little kids in a sandbox. They haven’t begun hitting […]

 

6 Things Every American Should Know About Obamacare

If you think every American should know these facts about Obamacare, do your part to spread this column around and make it happen. 1) Millions of Americans are paying much more for health care because of Obamacare. Obama’s new health care law has a lot of new requirements, restrictions, and red tape. That means the […]

 

Reasonable People Compromise

Reasonable people compromise. Unreasonable people do not. Instead, they trample over those around them to selfishly get their way. And the government is shut down this chilly October day in 2013 because unreasonable Democrats behaving like spoiled children would rather refuse treatment to terminally ill children, ravage the economy, disparage veterans and make the rest […]

 

New, Compelling Evidence that More Immigration Leads to Higher Poverty

One fact in the endless immigration debate is unarguable: the more entitlements California makes available to illegal aliens, the more beckoning the state becomes. Earlier last week, Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill that will allow illegal aliens to obtain drivers licenses. He also signed bills that would permit illegal immigrants to practice law, and […]

 

Voters to Politicians: Both Parties are Blundering

What to make of all the polls on the government shutdown? You know, the ones that say that, to varying degrees, congressional Republicans are being blamed more than Democrats and Barack Obama. Let me give a roundabout answer, based on a theory that people sometimes try to send messages through their responses to poll questions. […]

 

There’s Nothing Wrong With Standing Up For Taxpayers

It was Cory Booker’s constant sneering attack in the first New Jersey U.S. Senate debate – Steve Lonegan is a “tea party leader.” What does that mean? It’s true, Steve Lonegan has long been one of the Garden State’s strongest leaders for fiscal responsibility, lower taxes, and constitutional government – the core values of the […]

 





1-800-T-O-T-A-L-F-A-I-L: One Man’s Obamawreck Nightmare

Behold the Hollywood bubble. This week, actress Olivia Wilde starred in an Obamacare propaganda video targeting young people. “You can sign up for health care online in 10 minutes,” her co-propagandist chirped as she cheered. Cue the laugh track. Back on planet Earth, Americans nationwide are still struggling with the $634 million online health care […]

 

Obama’s confession of indifference

Last week I wrote a column accusing the president of having a vindictive streak — of deliberately trying to make the lives of average Americans worse just so he could score ideological and political points. We already knew from how he handled the budget sequester that Obama liked this approach. He ordered Cabinet secretaries not […]

 




No Good Options for Obama

Not long ago, the conventional wisdom in official Washington held that the so-called sequester spending cuts would be a disaster for the Republican Party. They were expected to rise up in vehement protest once the “cuts” went into effect. Instead, nobody outside of Washington noticed. Today, the conventional wisdom suggests that the so-called government shutdown […]

 

20 Things You Never Want To Hear In Obama’s America

1) The Death Panel will now decide if your treatment is too expensive. 2) Yeah, right! There’s a better chance Democrats would go after veterans or kids with cancer than do that! 3) We’ll get to the bottom of this scandal in no time now that the Obama Administration is investigating itself! 4) Sure, it’s […]

 

Democrats To America: We Own The Government!

In the current fight over the government shutdown, Republicans are simply representing the views of the American people. Americans didn’t ask for Obamacare, they don’t want it, but now their insurance premiums are going through the roof, their doctors aren’t accepting it, and their employers are moving them into part-time work — or firing them […]

 

From ‘Young Invincibles’ to Mature Vulnerables

The founts of wisdom on the Affordable Care Act spent the past year anguishing over whether “young invincibles” — young adults with low medical costs and no health coverage — would buy policies under the act. If young adults instead chose to pay the $95 fine, experts predicted, Obamacare would falter. Since the Oct. 1 […]

 

Mr. Netanyahu and the end of days

So far Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s peace ruse is still bearing some fruit. President Obama was eager to talk with him at the United Nations — only to be reportedly rebuffed, until Obama managed to phone him for the first conversation between heads of state of the two countries since the Iranian storming of the […]

 


Harry Reid: Concern About Runaway Spending Is ‘Anarchy’??!!!

A national network reporter, during an interview about about the government shutdown, actually told me: “Democrats believe government should do some: things. Republicans don’t believe government should be doing anything.” Where had we heard that characterization of the GOP? “‘Anarchist’? Why in the world wouldn’t I use the term anarchy?” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, […]

 


Why Do Advertisers Back Race-Baiter Al Sharpton?

Back in 1987, a young demagogue named Al Sharpton leapt onto the national scene, accusing a New York assistant district attorney, Steven Pagones, of raping a 15-year-old girl, Tawana Brawley. Actually, Sharpton claimed that Pagones had raped Brawley, anally raped Brawley and then scrawled the initials “KKK” on Brawley’s torso in feces. “We stated openly […]

 

Occupy America! Park Visitors Storm the Barrycades

Could this be the end of Monument Syndrome? Across the country, ordinary Americans are rising up in revolt against the old Washington tactic of closing public parks and memorials during selective government “shutdowns” to score political points. Tax-paying tourists are tossing off the orange traffic cones and “Barrycades.” Enough is enough. The movement started with […]

 

Shutdown Theater

Government wants you to play a role in the “shutdown” of the federal government. Your role is to panic. Republicans and Democrats both assume that shutting some government is a terrible thing. The press concurs. “Shutdown threatens fragile economy,” warns Politico. “Federal workers turn to prayer,” laments The Washington Post. If the public starts noticing […]

 

Racial Trade-offs

Trade-offs apply to our economic lives, as well as our political lives. That means getting more of one thing requires giving up something else. Let’s look at some examples. Black congressmen and black public officials in general, including Barack Obama, always side with teachers unions in their opposition to educational vouchers, tuition tax credits, charter […]

 


Obama’s Dangerous Claim to Executive Power

Negotiating with Republicans has never been in Obama’s playbook. Three days after his inauguration in 2009, President Barack Obama silenced Republican lawmakers who voiced concerned about the enormity of spending in his stimulus bill by uttering two brash words, “I won.” That was his governing philosophy, as he rammed through the American Reinvestment and Recovery. […]

 

The hidden opportunity in the federal shutdown

PARIS — Over a year ago, I sent my fingerprints for a standard foreign background check to the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C., along with a money order. Both promptly disappeared, never to be seen again. A personal survey of those around me suggested that this was standard operating procedure — which is why […]