March 19, 2010
Trust Me
The President is telling the American people, “Trust me. Expanding the size and scope of the federal government by a couple of trillion dollars over the next ten years is good for the Federal Deficit.” The President is telling the...
March 18, 2010
The Bipartisan Health Care Mirage
I had a brief chat with Dennis Kucinich and his wife last night at the Radio Television Correspondents Dinner. While I rarely agree with Mr. Kucinich, I think he is very nice, very intellectually consistent, and a very passionate promoter...
March 17, 2010
Putting Conservative Values Into Action
Last night, I shook the hand of a person who ought to be a true hero of the conservative movement. Nope, it wasn’t Glenn Beck. It wasn’t Rush Limbaugh. It wasn’t Jim DeMint. It wasn’t Sarah Palin. And it wasn’t...
March 16, 2010
The Corrupt Bargain
In 1824, the House of Representatives awarded the Presidency to John Quincy Adams after Henry Clay, who was then the House Speaker, concluded that he wouldn’t be President and cut a deal that landed him the job of Secretary of...
March 15, 2010
Pelosi to Deploy a Wide Variety of Tactics to Win Vote
(Washington DC) JMU News Service reports that House Speaker is considering a variety of different procedural and intimidation tactics in order to win passage of the President’s health care bill later this week. The tactics, according to well-informed sources, include...
March 14, 2010
The Real Problem with Our Public Schools
In a brilliant maneuver to change the subject from health care, the President announced that he was going to start talking about reforming President Bush’s No Child Left Behind law. The premise of NCLB is that if a school is...