Analysis: President Obama’s FY 2012 Budget Proposal
During his 2008 campaign, President Barack Obama pledged to make the eradication of out-of-control spending his foremost priority upon being elected. But he has failed to follow through with this promise: his highly-anticipated 2012 budget, released this week, reneged on this pledge. Even as the president made it a point to criticize the Wisconsin state [...]
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 [...]
Analysis of Governor Walker’s State of the State Address
In his first State of the State Address as Wisconsin’s governor last week, Scott Walker reiterated his panoply of campaign promises and pledged to make job creation, business development, balancing the budget, and restoring economic prosperity his foremost priorities in the current legislative session. Even though Governor Walker’s speech lacked much on these issues, he [...]
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 [...]
Can’t Have It Both Ways, Mr. President
In his State of the Union Address last week, President Barack Obama described two disconnected, mutually-exclusive policy agendas: 1) Within 25 years, he hopes to give 80 percent of Americans access to high-speed rail. 2) In the aftermath of national economic recession, we have to confront the fact that our government spends more than it [...]
PAI Releases Fall-Winter 2010 Edition: The Collegiate Conservative
Check Out the Fall-Winter 2010 Edition This Edition’s Talking Points Included: The emerging crisis over Iran’s nuclear ambitions continues to unfold. The news in recent months has lived up to expectations; there have been few surprises, but the clock is ticking. The United States has been leading a coalition of individual states and international bodies like the United [...]
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 [...]
State of the Union Report: The State of Energy
“We need to out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world,” said President Barack Obama, in a moment that largely defined his 2010 State of the Union speech. It also aptly describes the focus of his energy policy. President Obama is correct to advocate pursuing an innovation policy to combat dependence on foreign oil [...]
United States Hosts Chinese Premier Hu Jintao
Hu Jintao, China’s President and General Secretary of the Communist Party, concluded a three-day visit to America this past Friday. Because Hu divided his time between Washington, DC and Chicago, his visit had broad ramifications not only for American foreign policy and national-level economic interests but also for primarily Midwestern issues. President Barack Obama had [...]
