31
May
Despite the President’s assurances that he does not want to be in the car business and that “we cannot make the survival of our auto industry dependent on an unending flow of taxpayer dollars”, in just a few hours, you, the taxpayers of America, will own General Motors. Tomorrow, GM will file for bankruptcy marking [...]
Tags: business concerns, capitalism, Chrysler, economic crisis, government spending, UAW
27
May
With the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, President Obama has reignited an old controversy over how judges should decide cases. This debate has occupied legal theorists for two hundred years. For instance, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes thought that the law should be separate from any ethics system. He famously stated that the [...]
Tags: legal decisionmaking, Sotomayor
24
May
Climate change solver or economy killer – these are the two sides to the debate on a cap-and-trade system. While it might be easy for many to get on board with reducing emissions, swallowing the costs of doing so is a different story. While the latest version of the bill eliminates permit auctions and has [...]
Tags: Cap-and-Trade, global warming, taxes
19
May
“Transparent government is good government, and good government has nothing to hide from the taxpayers who fund it.” So said Joe Calomino, Illinois State Director for Americans for Prosperity, in response to the Illinois legislature passing House Bill 35 last week, also known as the Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal (ITAP). In a state plagued [...]
Tags: Government Transparency, Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal
14
May
“The Obama administration’s adoption of the stonewalling tactics and opaque policies of the Bush administration flies in the face of the president’s stated desire to restore the rule of law, to revive our moral standing in the world and to lead a transparent government.” And so went the ACLU’s outraged reaction to the President’s announcement [...]
Tags: alleged detainee abuse
13
May
Ed Morrissey of Hot Air graciously invited me on his radio show today to discuss the American Issues Project and my newest blog post on yesterday’s healthcare announcement. I’m a novice in the political blogosphere, but Ed kindly walked me first my such appearance! I thoroughly enjoyed our conversation which you can find here – [...]
Tags: The Ed Morrissey Show
12
May
“An unrivaled set of abstractions and posturing,” is how a Boston University Professor of Health Policy described the announcement that health companies (insurers, providers and drug companies) have promised to enact $2 trillion in cost-cutting measures over the next 10 years. This ceremonial commitment came on the heels of Democrat’s revealing their willingness to use [...]
11
May
Bloomberg reports that the President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, said his country “doesn’t have to disclose the location of its weapons to the U.S..” This is in response to a U.S. inquiry as to the location of the weapons for strategic reasons, namely for their and our security and in an effort to keep [...]
Tags: Pakistan, war on terror, weapons, Zardari
11
May
Yesterday, President Obama urged Congress to pass credit-card reform legislation by Memorial Day. In his weekly address, he stated, “There is no time for delay…We need a durable and successful flow of credit in our economy, but we can’t tolerate profits that depend upon misleading working families.” The House passed the Credit Cardholders’ Bill of [...]
Tags: credit card reform, Credit Crisis
7
May
Last week, when President Obama announced Chrysler’s impending bankruptcy, he lambasted “a group of investment firms and hedge funds that held out” by refusing to go along with the government’s proposal. The President could not have been clearer about his ire toward the group, stating that he “did not stand with them”. Who are these [...]
Tags: Auto Bailouts, bankruptcy, Chrysler, UAW
