Speak Nicely or Regret It
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 179 Current Event According to The Indianapolis Recorder and Associated Press Writers ; May 3, 2010 Obama takes direct aim at anti-government rhetoric ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) _ In a blunt caution to political friend and foe, President Barack Obama said Saturday that partisan rants and name-calling under the [...]
Extraordinary Gifts For Votes
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 175 Current Event According to The Los Angeles Times; November 15, 2012 Romney attributes loss to ‘gifts’ Obama gave minorities Mitt Romney said Wednesday that his loss to President Obama was due in large part to his rival’s strategy of giving “gifts” during his first term to three groups [...]
Disasters and Other people’s Money
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 174 Current Event According to FoxNews/AP January 05, 2013 Congress OKs $9.7B in Sandy relief, as conservatives question call for more aid advertisement Washington – Congress approved a $9.7 billion aid bill for victims of Superstorm Sandy on Friday, amid a gusty debate between those who say Congress must [...]
Protecting Minority Rights
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 170 Current Event According to President Obama at a press conference on November 4, 2011; question from Norah O’Donnell. The world leaders here have stressed growth — the importance of growth. And yet growth back at home has been anemic, the new jobs report today showing just 88,000 jobs [...]
A Response to President Obama’s Domestic Agenda
Last night, President Barack Obama addressed the nation on the state of our Union. Like most of his predecessors, President Obama observed that the Union is strong. Many on both sides of the aisle, however, are in agreement with Gerald Ford’s statement in his 1974 State of the Union Address that the nation is in [...]
Time to Wake Up from the Dreams
President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address failed to address the state of the national debt, which now stands at a mind-blowing $14 trillion. Yet his language about living up to the dreams of our children is flowery indeed. Each American child born today enters the world burdened by over $40,000 in federal debt. [...]
Spending Leads to More Spending
Past mistakes of the Obama administration continue to haunt the federal government, which approved the allocation of $600 million to help jobless homeowners avoid foreclosure in the five hardest-hit states across the country. Instead of searching for comprehensive and viable solutions to improving the unemployment rates in the country, temporary Band-Aids are being implemented by [...]
Just Another Fifty BILLION Dollars
After the $700B TARP bill (2008), the $152B Stimulus Bill #1 (2008), and the $500B Stimulus Bill #2 (2009), the passage of ObamaCare (2010), and continuing pressure for a business-punishing cap-and-trade policy, President Obama has sent a letter to congress urging them to endorse yet another government-sponsored, tax-payer-funded stimulus spending spree. This one another fifty billion dollars! [...]
UW System Increases Tuition by 5.5%
For the second consecutive week, the focus of the Wisconsin segment of the Weekly Political Forecast is focused on the issue of irresponsible spending in the Wisconsin education system. As a follow-up to last week’s discussion of the state of the public school system, we have decided to examine in detail wasteful spending by state [...]
