On January 21, 2009, Barack Obama stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and, in his inaugural address, pledged to America that he would “wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost.” What he did wield, of course, was a 2,000-page bill known as Obamacare. More than a year on, […]
In our work on public sector compensation, Andrew Biggs of the American Enterprise Institute and I have routinely counted enhanced job security as a benefit for public workers, and we have tried to quantify just how valuable it can be. Some critics have argued that public workers actually have no extra job security, but this […]
By Tom McClintock Federal spending has ballooned 28 percent during the Obama Presidency while the government has amassed more debt than it acquired from the first day of George Washington’s administration to the last day of George H. W. Bush’s. Our nation is racing toward a fiscal cliff. Yet, as Sen. Jim DeMint noted, instead […]
Another brave Patriot is speaking out against Obama’s vital records. A Hawaii source with inside knowledge has asserted that Obama supporters placed a forged long-form 1961 birth certificate in the vault of the Hawaii Department of Health. Talk-radio host and former Nixon White House operative G. Gordon Liddy recently announced that one of his trusted […]
It looks like we’re finally going to get the full-fledged investigation into Obama’s eligibility to be president that Congress has FAILED to deliver. Today, we’re happy to let you know that two more sheriffs – one in Florida and one in New Jersey – will likewise be asked by Tea Party leaders and their constituents […]
Governor Rick Perry submitted this op-ed, which appears in the Wall Street Journal: Obama policies have encouraged the Palestinians to avoid direct negotiations with Israel. The historic friendship between the United States and Israel stretches from the founding of the Jewish state in 1948 to the present day. Our nations have developed vital economic and […]
Sunday marked the anniversary of an oppressive law that has resulted in almost 40 million “missing” women and some of the most egregious human rights violations in recent history. Thirty-one years ago, on September 25, 1980, the Chinese government instituted a population control policy that prohibits almost all Chinese couples from having more than one […]
In honor of the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 Islamist attacks on New York City and the Pentagon that killed 2,819 innocents, the Pew Research Center recently conducted a survey of Muslim Americans to see how that particular community’s thoughts and attitudes had changed since the last survey in 2007. And the political sentiments of […]
The South China Sea continues to bubble as the small fish in the sea summon bigger fish to counter the Chinese leviathan. Vietnam has strengthened its ties with the United States and now the sub rosa ties between New Delhi and Hanoi are surfacing. India has quietly been providing Vietnam with help in beefing up […]
by Daniel Pipes August 5, 2011 Chris Christie, the New Jersey governor since 2010, has qualities and achievements that appeal to mainstream conservatives, from his direct style to his impressive budget cutting. As a result, he has won impressive support to run as a Republican candidate for president of the United States. But Christie […]
