Prudence Can End Obama’s Soft Despotism by Michael Barone Many Republican House members and the bloggers and Tea Partiers who cheered their victory in gaining a majority in November 2010 seem to be seething with discontent and eager for confrontation. They believe, reasonably, that that victory represented a repudiation of the vast expansion of government… Continue Reading
Friedrich Hayek in “The Constitution of Liberty,” 1960: Not only is liberty a system under which all government action is guided by principles, but it is an ideal that will not be preserved unless it is itself accepted as an overriding principle governing all particular acts of legislation. Where no such fundamental rule is stubbornly… Continue Reading
Debt Problem? What Debt Problem? OBAMA’S FY2013 BUDGET KEEPS ON SPENDING RIGHT PAST THE FISCAL GRAVEYARD AWAITING AMERICA $47.0 Trillion: Total Federal Spending Proposed By Obama’s FY2013 Budget Through 2022. (OMB, 2/13/12) $25.9 Trillion: Total Federal Debt By The End Of 2022. (OMB, 2/13/12) $16.351 Trillion: Total Federal Debt By The End Of This Year.(OMB, 2/13/12) $10.6… Continue Reading
Wall Street Journal Graphics on 2013 Budget The Obama administration on Monday released its budget request for the 2013 fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1, 2012. The Wall Street Journal has provided graphics for understanding the Obama 2013 Budget , including revenue and spending, deficit forecasts and department budgets. The spending deals struck in 2011 mean… Continue Reading
Budget Overview We now face a make-or-break moment for the middle class and those trying to reach it. After decades of eroding middle-class security as those at the very top saw their incomes rise as never before and after a historic recession that plunged our economy into a crisis from which we are still fighting… Continue Reading
President Obama’s Budget Proposal: Running on Empty – Patrick Louis Knudsen Coming from a President whose economic philosophy is a borrowed car company slogan, the Obama budget submitted Monday all too predictably repeats the stale and unsuccessful policies of the past three years. The Administration has tapped all its resources and can only recycle the President’s… Continue Reading
By David Boaz, Cato It’s being reported that in his 2013 budget President Obama will propose to increase spending now and reduce the deficit some day. Isn’t that what every budget promises these days? As I noted last summer during the debt ceiling fight at the Britannica Blog, fiscal conservatives should be very skeptical of plans and… Continue Reading
There are two indisputable facts about politics. “The first is that every modern president in the fourth year of his presidency resorts to the cheap political stunts, broken promises and truth-fudging it takes to win reelection in what has been and will be a 50-50 nation. The reason is simple: Politics is not clean-living; it’s… Continue Reading
On Wednesday, January 18th 2012, members of the Martin County Republican Executive Committee attended the meeting of the Martin County Canvassing Board. The Board convened for the public testing of the voting and tabulating equipment to be used for the January 31, 2012, Presidential Preference Primary Election. Precinct Committeemen Don Gleichman and Jim McGovern joined the… Continue Reading
It’s never entirely easy to distinguish between retrenchment and retreat. For three years, the Obama administration has followed what it believes is a strategy of retrenchment—withdrawing from Iraq, setting a deadline for Afghanistan, calling off further expansion of NATO, signing arms-control treaties, asking the Europeans to take the lead in Libya, preferring sanctions to military… Continue Reading