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Archive for May, 2011
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Court Upholds Employer Sanctions Law
Posted on May 31, 2011 | 1 CommentArizona’s employee sanctions law complements federal enforcement on its own terms. -
Your health care doesn’t need a middleman
Posted on May 31, 2011 | 1 CommentThrough a variety of labs available online, consumers can order tests ranging from checking cholesterol levels and blood sugar to a wide variety of more comprehensive testing. -
Will Islam Destroy Itself?
Posted on May 30, 2011 | No CommentsIt's not mere militancy that threatens Islam, but its own lack of proportion. -
Tea Party – A Movement in Search of a Leader
Posted on May 30, 2011 | 1 CommentThe Republican challenge here is certainly a short run advantage to Democrats. -
A Day at the Races
Posted on May 29, 2011 | No CommentsIf the Republican presidential field were any more unstable, it would be radioactive -
Collusion, Corruption, and Barney Frank’s Boyfriend
Posted on May 29, 2011 | 1 CommentCould it be that Congressman Frank used his power and influence to extend an opportunity to his significant other...? -
Medicare, Mediscare
Posted on May 27, 2011 | 2 CommentsThe Democrats' Mediscare strategy won't be that effective -
Is Sarah Palin Running for President?
Posted on May 26, 2011 | 3 CommentsSarah Palin will run for POTUS, not the Senate -
Failed State Colonization – The Greatest Threat of Our Time
Posted on May 26, 2011 | No CommentsMigration from failed states to successful states is leading the way to utter ruin -
Ed Schultz Grounded, But Keeping Nintendo
Posted on May 25, 2011 | 1 CommentMSNBC's Ed Schultz calls conservative Laura Ingraham a 'slut' -
No Dog in That Fight, Mr. President?
Posted on May 25, 2011 | No CommentsObama fights tenaciously only for the things he believes in -
Scarecrow Empires and Broken Alliances
Posted on May 25, 2011 | No CommentsObama's foreignness to the old traditions is only a small fracture point in the larger break -
World Bank Study: Freedom Boosts Economies
Posted on May 25, 2011 | No CommentsThe lesson is that while social spending might be based on good intentions, entitlement programs can harm both those who make social spending possible and the recipients. -
Setting the Record Straight
Posted on May 24, 2011 | No CommentsFar from granting “broad authority” to Congress, the truth is that Necessary and Proper Clause grants no power at all. -
Fin de Regime in Syria?
Posted on May 24, 2011 | No CommentsWestern states should seize on opportunity to remove Bashar al-Assad -
Cave Creek’s recent move respects the voters
Posted on May 24, 2011 | No CommentsAt issue is whether districts can spend bond money on projects voters have not approved. -
End of the World
Posted on May 23, 2011 | 1 CommentWhat's the difference between Al Gore and the Rapture prophet? -
Gingrich vs Ryan
Posted on May 23, 2011 | No CommentsIt’s much easier to reform a program where the prime beneficiaries are poor black women than a program where the beneficiaries are every working American adult -
Pictures of Sarah Palin’s Rumored Scottsdale House
Posted on May 22, 2011 | 13 CommentsRumors escalate that the Palins have purchased some desert real estate -
Freedom Fueled the American Moon Shot
Posted on May 22, 2011 | No CommentsNoteworthy, Kennedy's moonshot was announced during a speech to Congress that included his articulation of the Freedom Doctrine. -
Are Jewish Americans Undermining Israel?
Posted on May 22, 2011 | No CommentsThe plight of Senator Joe Lieberman over the past decade is an important chapter in America’s “indifference- to-hostility” story. -
The Embarrassing Poor
Posted on May 21, 2011 | No CommentsThe modern welfare state shovels money out to the poor but lets their culture wither away. -
Not Just Our Neighbors Crossing the Border
Posted on May 21, 2011 | 1 CommentThe human smugglers' international clientele -
The Ghosts of America Haunt Social Security
Posted on May 20, 2011 | 1 CommentLiberal social values that make social security economically unsustainable -
Live By the Sword
Posted on May 19, 2011 | No CommentsOh dear. Now that the government unions have looted the government coffers, encouraged by the politicians, the voters are mad. -
Susie’s lemonade stand not welcome in Phoenix
Posted on May 19, 2011 | No CommentsCities should ... eliminate [regulations] that stop entrepreneurs before they can even get started. -
A People’s Approach to National Security
Posted on May 18, 2011 | No CommentsIt is not governments that stop terrorists, but people who do -
Do you want Congress to hold the line on the debt ceiling?
Posted on May 18, 2011 | No CommentsIf the National Debt Relief Amendment were law, advocates of lifting the debt limit would have to make their case in 50 state legislatures. -
Nakbacide
Posted on May 17, 2011 | 1 CommentThe Nakba is a tiresome reminder that Muslims don't want peace -
Peoria calls a bully’s bluff
Posted on May 17, 2011 | No CommentsOur state constitution’s Gift Clause exists to help government officials do the right thing, and to hold them to account when they don’t. -
A Moment of Clarity
Posted on May 16, 2011 | No CommentsIt is the obligation of the United States to make clear to their European friends that supporting these anti-American groups will not occur, and that this ludicrous proposal must be stopped. -
Education Freedom is Civil Rights Issue of Today
Posted on May 16, 2011 | 1 CommentIt is Republicans who have championed school choice and vouchers that disproportionately will benefit blacks. -
Tariq Ramadan Discovers His Inner Flower Child
Posted on May 16, 2011 | No CommentsIt will take more than words...to stop the persecution of Christians across the Muslim world, the violence directed at Israel, the export of Wahhabi supremacism from Saudi Arabia, and the brutal Iranian theocracy -
Global Warming Goes Gangsta
Posted on May 15, 2011 | 1 CommentClimate scientists put together an awful rap video -
The Feds, The Economy, Your State And Your School Board
Posted on May 15, 2011 | 1 CommentWhen teachers lose their jobs, students suffer – and “student suffering” gets parents and other voters in the mood for a tax increase. -
The Long Election March
Posted on May 14, 2011 | No CommentsWhat [Romney's] really counting on is the collapse of the populism of 2010. -
A Sluggish Recovery for President Obama
Posted on May 13, 2011 | No Comments[T]he science is in on liberalism: the more you meddle with the proposition of democratic capitalism, the more misery you create. -
Iraq – A Provence of Iran?
Posted on May 12, 2011 | No CommentsIraqi maltreatment of Iranian dissidents both raises humanitarian concerns and points to the MeK's larger importance as a mechanism to thwart the U.S. goal of minimizing Tehran's influence in Iraq. -
Undisciplined Bureaucracy: Raucous special session likely for Brewer’s personnel reform plan
Posted on May 12, 2011 | No Comments“If [Brewer] puts out just what she has in those bullet points, we will rally these state employees,” Van Horsen said of the governor’s proposal. “We are going to tell them that this is the last line in the sand for you.” -
The Kushnerites and the Whiny Left
Posted on May 11, 2011 | No CommentsTony Kushner is the latest victim of McCarthyism, suffering the awful indignity of being briefly denied an honorary CUNY degree, after being caught supporting a terrorist regime whose victims, men, women and children lie in the hospitals and the cold dead ground. -
Keeping government from becoming a ‘kingmaker’
Posted on May 11, 2011 | No CommentsEven though SB 1041 will not become law, the Commerce Authority could still morph into a kingmaker, and one that the legislature and taxpayers must be vigilant in policing. -
America’s Big Social Problem
Posted on May 10, 2011 | No CommentsThe problem is how to socialize the boys, and turn them towards productive work and away from their natural instinct for mayhem and rapine. -
A Few Good Political Opportunists
Posted on May 10, 2011 | No Comments[I]n what universe will the Republican party pick up more votes than it loses by supporting an end to Medicare. -
Avoiding a multi-million tax dollar ‘emergency’ in Glendale
Posted on May 10, 2011 | No CommentsTonight’s decision before the City Council would commit Glendale to spend another $25 million, for a second year in a row, to keep the Coyotes playing at Jobing.com Arena while a deal is made... -
Mothers Day and Our Budget Crisis
Posted on May 9, 2011 | No CommentsAs we’ve given government increasing responsibility for our lives – our health care, our retirement, our housing, educating our children – the American family has correspondingly unraveled. -
Bin Ladin, Italian Style
Posted on May 9, 2011 | 1 CommentThe Italians were joyous as well, fervently expressing how this mass murderer deserved to die and asking why such men even exist. -
The King of I
Posted on May 8, 2011 | No CommentsLiberals wrestle with America, as they wrestle with themselves, their violent hate and bitter love, tied not to national history, but biography. -
A “Third Income Tax” To Fund Public Education?
Posted on May 8, 2011 | 1 CommentAs long as Democrat politicians can continue to re-distribute increasing amounts of wealth into the hands of unionized government employees, the unionized government employees will continue to do the grassroots political work to keep Democrat politicians in office. -
Killing the Bin Laden Within
Posted on May 6, 2011 | No CommentsLike 'Big Brother', we have learned to love 'Big Islam' -
Goldwater offers solutions to Coyotes quandary
Posted on May 5, 2011 | 1 CommentIt is not too late for Glendale to keep the Coyotes in town legally. -
Patriotism is the Last Refuge of a Liberal
Posted on May 4, 2011 | 1 CommentObama's success is a testament to the failure of his ideas -
Bureaucracy threatens state parks
Posted on May 4, 2011 | No CommentsThe real obstacle to keeping our state parks open isn’t money. It’s bureaucracy. -
Bin Laden Dead: Now What?
Posted on May 3, 2011 | No CommentsNow Obama and the ruling class must decide what our grand strategy should be -
Al Qaeda’s Next Wave of Terror
Posted on May 3, 2011 | No CommentsWhile Americans are still thinking in terms of 9/11, the terrorists have already moved on -
Protecting small fish from a big bureaucracy
Posted on May 3, 2011 | No CommentsHave you ever wondered how it came to be that in a nation committed to opportunity and freedom of enterprise, bureaucrats can run roughshod over entrepreneurs like Cindy Vong? -
The Talented Ms. Warren
Posted on May 2, 2011 | No CommentsFunding for the CFPB is taken from the earnings of the Federal Reserve System, which means that Congress has no voice in its operation. -
Politicization of the Fed a Dangerous Trend
Posted on May 2, 2011 | No CommentsLike everything else in our country, money has become relative and politicized. -
US Wins a Battle in the War
Posted on May 2, 2011 | 1 CommentLet's hope that our leadership doesn't fumble this rare opportunity advance our foreign policy objectives -
Why Muslim Military Shootings are Inevitable
Posted on May 1, 2011 | No CommentsYou can train them in Western tactics, but not in the morality of Western armies. -
Slouching Towards Insolvency (The California Way)
Posted on May 1, 2011 | No Comments[S]tate government estimates suggest that Brown just saddled Californians with an additional $600 million in pension liabilities.
