It’s fascinating to watch Democrats and their liberal-media friends as they treat Republicans like a bunch of kids at summer camp, keeping them up at night with scary stories.
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To say that the military is what makes America great could perhaps give other nations the wrong impression, but it is true all the same. This is not because Americans are a particularly militaristic people. Nor is it because other aspects of the national identity — our freedoms, our ingenuity and our entrepreneurship — are less important.
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Anyone can make specious claims about the federal budget. Witness, for example, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer’s assertion that our federal government is not going broke, and his party’s broader argument that “Medicare as we know it” is somehow sustainable with just a few tweaks.
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President Barack Obama stirred up a hornets’ nest when he declared during his highly anticipated Middle East speech Thursday that Israel’s borders should be based on the pre-1967 lines. He added enough caveats to render his demand unattainable from a practical standpoint, but, as a matter of political and strategic perception, Obama has inflicted a serious wound on America’s most reliable ally. For that reason, it’s important to understand what Obama is demanding of Israel.
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"Danaher’s closing,” said Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., lamenting the loss of a plant that had employed 330 people in his state. “Now those jobs are going to Arkansas and to Texas.”
It was April 2005. Neal was taking the opportunity during a House committee hearing on competition with China to complain instead about how Massachusetts was losing jobs to states with less-hostile business climates.
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Why has private sector unionization fallen from 35 percent of the work force during World War II to less than 7 percent today? The main reason is that unions raise a firm’s labor costs, leaving fewer resources for things like job creation, capital improvements and research and development. Unions also make it much harder for owners and executives to make practical business decisions.
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President Barack Obama neatly summed up his political philosophy last year when he advised Latinos to “punish our enemies” and “reward our friends” on immigration issues. House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., took a brave stand against that philosophy this week, announcing his opposition to a draft presidential executive order that would require any company seeking a government contract to disclose all federal political contributions by the firm’s owners, directors and managers.
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It’s not uncommon to find wide disparities between the conventional wisdom among Washington elites and the reality experienced daily beyond the west bank of the Potomac River. There is, however, a Grand Canyon’s worth of difference between Washington and the rest of the country on the matter of border security with Mexico.
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Remember when you were a kid and your mother told you to eat your Brussels sprouts because “they’re good for you?” That’s exactly the attitude today from President Barack Obama, Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar concerning high gas prices.
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Congress is required, by law, to pass a budget resolution by April 15 every year. Last year, for the first time in the history of the modern budget process, both the House and Senate failed to even vote on a budget.
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