Executive Orders Trump the Consent of the Governed
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 125 Current Event Published October 31, 2011 | FoxNews.com Obama Orders FDA to Reduce Drug Shortages Acting once again without Congress, President Obama on Monday was directing the Food and Drug Administration to take steps to reduce drug shortages that administration officials say have placed patients at risk and [...]
Circumventing Congress on Immigration
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 105 Current Event According to FoxNews.com/AP; August 19, 2011 Republicans accused the Obama administration of instituting “backdoor amnesty” after officials announced they would launch a case-by-case review of illegal immigrants slated for deportation in an effort to thin the list and focus resources on kicking out criminals. The move [...]
Essential Constraints
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 103 Current Event According to ABC News October 27, 2008 (full article available online) On Jan. 18, 2001, then-state senator Barack Obama appeared on a public radio chat show to discuss “The Courts and Civil Rights.” Obama in that interview said, “If you look at the victories and [...]
President Obama’s Budget Does Nothing to Address Deficit
President Barack Obama spearheaded the expansion of the U.S. federal budget by $700 billion in his first two years. Now, in his third year, he seems to think highly of his ability to reduce it by $100 billion. The president’s proposed budget does nothing “to pay down debt or ever come close to balancing it,” says Senator Jeff Sessions, [...]
Themes for Leadership in a World without Hosni Mubarak
After today’s news that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has surrendered power to the country’s military leadership after weeks of civilian protest, it is not surprising that the airwaves have been humming with high hopes, speculation about future events, and some rampant rumors. Several themes deserve to be spotlighted. The immediate crisis in Egypt is not [...]
What Part of “Private” Doesn’t He Understand?
In his address to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC today, President Barack Obama bluntly insisted that profits earned by private companies “have to be shared by American workers.” Someone should remind the President of the United States that 401Ks, employer-based insurance premiums, and myriad other company-sponsored perks already ARE examples of private [...]
The Bush Tax Cuts: Renewing Prosperity and Enhancing Economic Growth
The Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 were instrumental in fostering the greatest economic expansion since the conclusion of the Second World War, in 1945. On January 1, 2011, the Bush tax cuts are set to terminate. President Obama, his liberal allies, and the mainstream media have led the American people to believe that [...]
President Obama Exempts World’s Worst Regimes that Employ Child Combatants
In a brief memo released on October 25th, the Obama administration exempted Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan and Yemen from the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008. The Act bans funding for foreign governments’ militaries if they use child soldiers. Child combatants in these countries are used as soldiers, porters, human mine detectors [...]
President Obama Justifies Failure to Fulfill AIDS Support Campaign
Bothered by unfulfilled campaign promises from President Barack Obama to increase global AIDS programs, protesters have been interrupting the president’s recent election rallies. His response? His administration has done more than Republicans would have. Besides the obvious issue that there is no way to prove the statement, President Bush also did more for AIDS assistance [...]
