Solyndra made solar panels, a green energy dream company. Obama saw that they got a $500 million dollar loan from the taxpayers. The company has now shut down and has laid off over a thousand employees and the taxpayers are
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Thomas Sowell writes Best Way to Aid Economy? Just Do Nothing in the Investors Business Daily, 9/14/11. Excerpts: The grand myth that’s been taught to whole generations is that the government is “forced” to intervene when there is a downturn
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The special election in New York to replace Twitter pervert Anthony Weiner is proving interesting. It is not surprising that in a heavily Democratic district in New York that the Jewish vote would come to play. It may be surprising
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“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend
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The hard core Obamaphiles still claim he is solving a problem not of his own making, and they are largely correct. To be sure, the mortgage meltdown did not happen on his watch. But the mortgage market was largely wrecked
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I have found that the claim to intellectual brilliance may the weakest, maybe the most dangerous reason to select a political leader. I recall Oprah Winfrey announcing that we should not vote for Obama because he is black but because
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President Obama made a presidential decision, both to remain focused on the pursuit of Bin Laden and on the crucial decision to bend the rules to send Special Forces in on the ground and kill him. He deserves credit for
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Our economy is in dangerous territory. Obama inherited a mess; a bubble that was a culmination and a combination of reckless leverage, poor regulation, misguided fiscal policy, major shifts in the global economy, and mistaken monetary policy. A lot of
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Issues like the GZ Mosque provide excellent fodder for the talking heads of the right and the left because it provides them with demons, and they both prefer demons to solutions. Demons get people worked up and when their blood
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I have been a fan of Fareed Zakaria,l read and enjoyed his Post American World, and I like the depth of his interviews on the TV show GPS. His recent article in Newsweek (“Obama’s CEO Problem”- 7/12/20101 print edition), however,
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Hard core party loyalists who damned Bush for his record deficit spending seem quiet about the multiples of prior deficits the Obama Administration has accumulated . Rather than apply the same standards to their president, they question where the Republicans
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The debate of financial reform is looking eerily like the debate on health care reform. In both cases both parties clearly see the need for change, and in both cases they disagree sharply on the means. When the financial meltdown
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Some perspectives on the Hillary/ Biden/ Obama smackdown of Israel for building Jewish homes in Jerusalem: from The Jerusalem Post Obama has Crossed the Line– by Isi Leibner Excerpts: The administration “condemns” us for building homes, not in densely Arab
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From “Why Elitists Fail” in American Thinker, January 30, 2010 Even the brightest minds cannot escape emotional impediments to a rational conclusion. Combining such emotional rationalism with a focus on theories detached from the verification of practical experience can be
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With the clarity of time we can look back at the brink of the collapse that hit us just prior to the last national election. In the midst of the collapse we were stunned and angry, and tended to blame
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“Could free markets have sorted out the mess without extraordinary government action? Yes, but only by destroying the remains of the financial system and possibly putting tens of millions of people out of work. Despite virulent public opposition to the
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Richard Cohen Writes in the Washington Post, From John Edwards, lessons on celebrity and politics Tuesday, January 26, 2010 Excerpt We have substituted the camera — fame, celebrity — for both achievement and the studied judgment of colleagues. The political
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The Senate election in Massachusetts may signal much more that dissatisfaction with the current administration; it may signal and end to partisan politics as we have known it. Given the euphoria and high expectations at Obama’s election in the midst
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A salient point made by Fred Barnes in the Wall Street Journal Why Obama Isn’t Changing Washington (Nov 26, 2009): Mr. Obama misread his own ability to sway the public. He is a glib, cool, likeable speaker whose sentences have
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We clearly need financial reform. Yet Obama’s reckless, populist, anti-business pronouncements only serve to harden the prevailing attitude that business growth and job generation is just too risky. Financial reform should be thoroughly vetted and discussed in the appropriate House
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