Posts Tagged ‘government’

As everyone knows, California is in a financial crisis to beat all crises and is looking for every way possible to cut costs. The most recent cost cutting measure it has taken is its implementation of the US Preventative Services Task Force’s mammogram recommendation (via Hot Air):
The eligibility age for state-subsidized breast cancer screening [...]

Two independent documentarians, James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, went undercover posing as a pimp and prostitute respectively to expose the corruption that is inside ACORN.
If you don’t know who ACORN is, let me explain. ACORN stands for Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now. As its name indicates, it is a very large group of leftist [...]

We knew this already. At least those of us who live and function in reality knew this already. The CBO has declared that the president’s federal budget is a total bust and if he continues with his massive spending programs, he will sentence America to economic doom. Well, he didn’t say it exactly those words, [...]

Finally some good news on the health care reform front from Roll Call:
House Democrats’ health care bill has been delayed indefinitely as leaders continue negotiations with fiscally conservative Blue Dog Democrats.
This is not to say I don’t think there should be any health care reform. We need health care reform because the system we have [...]

Health care is Obama’s Moby Dick. It’s his ultimate prize because once he has that, he has everything. Today at American Issues Project I discuss the lengths to which Obama will go to get his way on health care. Here’s a portion:
President Barack Obama is promoting a health care plan that would dismantle private insurance. [...]

My newest column is up at American Issues Project. This week I argue that our country’s educational system needs a monopoly buster. So many children in America’s cities are wasting away in failed school systems. It doesn’t have to stay this way. There is an alternative system but in order for it to work, someone [...]

If more of us had the cojones this Texan has, then we might actually be able to accomplish something. I saw this first on Fox and Friends. Glenn Beck picked it up as well. In fact, it’s gotten a lot of press attention because its author has tapped into the feeling that many taxpayers feel: [...]

The Hill reports that Senator Reid has two Republicans voting for the stimulus which means passage of the $900 billion boondoggle.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters Thursday that he has enough votes to pass a more than $900 billion stimulus bill out of the Senate.
Reid said he believes at least two Republicans [...]

The idiots running the state of California now want to force flat screen television manufacturers to make their products more energy efficient. Sounds easy enough, right? Nope. This would drive up the price of the televisions.  Consumer electronics such as flat screen televisions have been dropping in price very quickly, making them affordable for many [...]