Share/Bookmark  America learned in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina that the private sector is far more capable of effectively responding to major natural disasters than is government. Now with Hurricane Irene — the most-hyped tropical system to hit our shores since Katrina — we’re learning that government is every bit as incapable when it comes
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Share/BookmarkThe faddish obsession with “green jobs” is being revealed as a massive waste of taxpayer money. Pipe dreams eventually are revealed for what they are — unrealistic, wishful thinking. It didn’t take long for Spain’s touted green-job revolution to be revealed as a financial disaster, siphoning taxpayer subsidies and destroying 2.2 real jobs for every
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Share/BookmarkIn addition to preserving the inalienability of our individual liberties, limited government ideology has always revolved around the belief that the invisible hand of the free market creates more prosperity for more people than command-and-control economic wealth redistribution. Actually this isn’t so much a belief (or theory) as it is an incontrovertible economic law. Unfortunately,
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Share/BookmarkBarack Obama came into office aspiring to bridge the chasm between liberals and conservatives, red states and blue states, and behold, the gulf is gone. People in each camp heartily agree that as a president, he’s a disappointment and a flop. Both sides even compare him to Jimmy Carter. Karl Rove, who was George W.
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Share/BookmarkA few hundred billion dollars here, a few hundred billion dollars there — sooner or later we’re talking about the real cost of Barack Obama’s new socialized medicine monstrosity. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi once said that “we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” Apparently, passing
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Share/BookmarkGood riddance to Col. Moammar Gadhafi, the Libyan dictator who oppressed his people for 42 years while fostering terrorism abroad. As President Barack Obama said Monday from Martha’s Vineyard, the situation in the Libyan capital of Tripoli remained “fluid,” but “the Gadhafi regime is coming to an end, and the future of Libya is in
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Share/BookmarkSenators were unleashed on their respective states last week which, poetically, coincided with Shark Week. After getting the country downgraded and dodging any budget cuts, they scurried home for vacation. They caved in so badly on doing anything significant that we need to send in a team of Chilean miners to find them. Obama’s staff
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Share/BookmarkMIDLAND — A North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to a judge to threatening the life of President Barack Obama and faces up to five years in a federal prison. Appearing before Magistrate David Counts in Midland on Thursday, Robert Frank Ackerman, 45, admitted he had threatened to travel to Washington, D.C., to kill the
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Share/BookmarkCEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA It’s a steamy August day, and the candidate arrives shortly after high noon for an outdoor rally in full sun. But bounding off the campaign bus, she is smiling broadly, and no wonder: It’s a good day to be Michele Bachmann. That’s because the credit rating service Standard and Poor’s has downgraded
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Share/BookmarkTax reform is in the air. One proposal floating around is to eliminate or reduce the tax deduction for home mortgage interest. About 35 million homeowners use the deduction to reduce their yearly tax bills. The total deduction amounts to about $131 billion a year.During the recent wrangling in Washington over the budget and debt
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