Let's think about the kind of mess that we're in. Federal 2010 Medicare and Medicaid expenditures totaled $800 billion. The projected annual growth of both programs is about 7 percent. Social Security expenditures are more than $700 billion a year. According to the 2009 Social Security and Medicare trustees reports, by 2030, 49 percent of federal revenue will ... MOREWalter E Williams: Economic Chaos Ahead
Let's think about the kind of mess that we're in. Federal 2010 Medicare and Medicaid expenditures totaled $800 billion. The projected annual growth of both programs is about 7 percent. Social Security expenditures are more than $700 billion a year. According to the 2009 Social Security and Medicare trustees reports, by 2030, 49 percent of federal revenue will ... MOREWash Examiner: A Coming Mandate To Buy Chevy Volts?
The path of bailouts, regulations and CAFE standards President Obama spent more than $85 billion bailing out General Motors and Chrysler three years ago. Now he claims credit for saving the industry, noting GM's recent return to the top sales spot among automakers worldwide, Ford's record profits (albeit achieved without federal funds), and the recent ... MORESteven Greenhut: Property Rights Win In The Golden State
California's redevelopment scam dead at last. The California Redevelopment Association’s Web site is still up and running and still features job postings for redevelopment jobs, although the site does report that the association’s annual convention and expo has been cancelled. It’s just a matter of time before the news reaches the CRA web-master ... MORENeil Snyder: A World Tax? Keep Your Eyes On The Internet
A compelling reason not to elect Obama. The United Nations is finally moving toward the creation of a world tax. "No one should live below a certain income level," stated Milos Koterec, President of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. "Everyone should be able to access at least basic health services, primary education, housing, water ... MORESheldon Richman: Corporatism Is Not The Free Market
The U.S. ceased to be a free market long ago. When a front-running presidential contender tells the country that thanks to Barack Obama, “[w]e are only inches away from ceasing to be a free market economy,” one is left scratching one’s head. How refreshing it is, then, to hear a prominent establishment economist—a Nobel laureate yet ... MORETed Nugent: The Great Keystone XL Pipeline Massacre
A dead giveaway of Obama's left-wing agenda. President Obama’s decision to put a bullet in the back of the head of the Keystone XL pipeline is all the proof you need to know that his modus operandi is to sidle up to environmental green-energy crackpots instead of creating thousands of American jobs and honestly pursuing energy independence for ... MORE
Andrew Napolitano: What Is A Just War?
When safety and liberty are threatened. When President Obama announced last April that he was sending the United States military to bomb Libya, he not only violated the United States Constitution, which he has taken an oath to uphold, but he also violated the moral principles of the just war. The Constitution permits only Congress to declare war and the ... MOREPaul Revere: Tax Reality Vs. Liberal Propaganda
How Obama platitudes stand up to real facts. Want to help make a huge step towards balancing the budget, make the tax code fair and equitable and improve the economy? According to President Obama, Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, and other liberals, the way to do this is to raise taxes on the wealthy: From a CBS partial ... MOREPat Buchanan: Is Ron Paul A Reactionary Or A Visionary?
As our situation is new, we must think anew. After his fourth-place showing in Florida, Ron Paul, by then in Nevada, told supporters he had been advised by friends that he would do better if only he dumped his foreign policy views, which have been derided as isolationism. Not going to do it, said Dr. Paul to cheers. And why should he? ... MORESteve Chapman: Inoculating Against Religious Freedom
White House has religious freedom in the crosshairs. A few weeks ago, Rick Santorum got some criticism for saying the Supreme Court erred in saying states may not outlaw contraception. The idea that Americans could legally be forbidden to buy condoms or birth control pills struck most people as a gross violation of personal liberty. They are right, of course. But ... MOREThomas Lifson: Sugar As A Regulated Substance
You're too stupid to know what to eat, but fortunately your betters are about to prevent you from harming yourself by eating stuff that you like. Welcome to the new America, where people who think they are smarter than you get to run your life. CBS News reports: A new commentary published online in the Feb. 1 issue of Nature says sugar is as "toxic" for people as the ... MOREJames A. Dorn: The Federal Reserve's Crony Capitalism
Private virtue is being penalized by public vice. The Federal Reserve’s decision to release forecasts for short-term interest rates is supposed to clarify monetary policy and reassure the public. By keeping the federal funds rate close to zero for three more years, and switching from shorter to longer-term securities, the Fed hopes to spur investment ... MOREDavid Harsanyi: The GOP's ObamaCare Problem
Both Mitt and Newt have supported individual mandate. Once the presidential nomination process is settled—and Lord knows that day can't come fast enough—Republicans will get back to doing what they do best, getting on Barack Obama's case. Incredibly, though, they'll have to do it without one of their most potent arguments. The Republican ... MORELee Moran: Police Terrorize Citizen With Gestapo Tactics
FBI chainsaws through front door; storm wrong house. Bungling FBI agents held a terrified mother at gunpoint for 30 minutes after chainsawing their way into her home - before realising they had raided the wrong address. Officers stormed into Judy Sanchez's Fitchburg, Massachusetts, apartment at 6.04am on January 26 after using the ... MORETheodore B. Olson: Obama's Enemies List
Private citizens have become targets for White House attacks. How would you feel if aides to the president of the United States singled you out by name for attack, and if you were featured prominently in the president's re-election campaign as an enemy of the people? What would you do if the White House engaged in derogatory speculative innuendo ... MORE
Herbert London: The Fraud In Our Entitlement System
Government "soft" money has plenty of takers. Though some might still deny it, there is growing bipartisan belief that our nation's level of indebtedness is unsustainable. How we reduce the debt burden is another matter; this is where political knives are sharpened. Yet there is one uncontroversial issue that could result in dramatic savings and ... MORE
VIDEO: Nanny Of The Month Winner For January 2012
Perhaps LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa should use condoms on taxpayers.
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