More Educrat Funds, Dumbed-down Standards
ITEM: Writing in the Washington Post for May 28, the “chair” of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, Christina Romer, called for passage of a $23 billion “emergency...
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Feeding Insatiable Government Appetite Won’t End Obesity
Item: Reuters reported on May 20: “New York Governor David Paterson on Thursday proposed lifting the sales tax on diet soda, while adding a new ‘sugar tax’ to full-calorie...
Paving the Way for Future Bailouts
Item: The April 22 Washington Post reported that President Obama was making an “assertive stride into the debate on financial regulatory reform.” The President flew to New York “to...
A Bad START and Other Perilous Nuclear Posturing
Item: In an article entitled, “Republicans expected to line up behind New START,” the Associated Press reported on April 9: “Despite near gridlock in the Senate, Republicans were expected...
Intergenerational Welfare, a.k.a. Social Security
Item: The New York Times for March 22 reported: “Now that landmark legislation overhauling the health insurance system is about to become law, addressing Social Security’s solvency could well...
Being Realistic About the China Threat
Item: In an article entitled “China’s military bluster camouflages toothless bite,” Reuters reported on March 8, "China’s military has far to go before its bite begins to...
Stimulus Spawns More Debt and Govt Jobs
Item: An Associated Press story dated February 17 reported: “Vice President Joe Biden asserted in an interview Wednesday that taxpayers have ‘gotten their money’s worth’ out of the $787...
Scheme to Nationalize Student-loan Industry
Item: Following the State of the Union address, Bloomberg News reported on January 28 that President Obama “urged the U.S. Senate to join the House in overhauling the federal...
Foreign Handouts: More Harm Than Good
Item: Writing in his blog for the New York Times on January 6, Nicolas Kristof discussed Clinton’s remarks: “She talked about partnerships with local countries, and consulting them rather...
Govt Spends Money Like Monopoly Money
Item: Sunlen Miller reported for ABC News on December 21: “Saying that the federal government can no longer spend taxpayers’ money like it is ‘Monopoly money,’ President Obama today...
Ballooning Education Bill
ITEM: An MCT News Service article in the Chicago Tribune for November 4 reported: “During a speech … in Madison, Wis., [President] Obama plugged the federal government’s $4.35 billion...
What Will Greenhouse Gas Reductions Do?
Item: The Obama administration must make a commitment on carbon-emission reductions, insisted the Washington Post on November 19. The House of Representatives, commented the Post, “has endorsed a 17...
Infected Bill of Health
ITEM: The Associated Press reported on November 4: “In a coup for House Democrats, AARP will endorse sweeping health care overhaul legislation headed for a history-making floor vote…. Backing...
Razing Dollars: Obama Wants More Giveaways
Item: Speaking at the United Nations on September 23, President Barack Obama boasted of what his new administration had done already: ...
Global Warming: Scaring Up More Controls
Item: “The United Nations is planning a form of diplomatic shock therapy for world leaders this week in the hope of injecting badly needed urgency into negotiations for a...
The Burden of Social Security
Item: “President Barack Obama has said he would like to tackle Social Security next year,” reported the Associated Press on April 24, “after Congress finishes work on health care,...
Cash for Clunkers
Item: The National Public Radio news blog, “The Two-Way,” reported on August 7: “The relatively good news that the unemployment rate dropped slightly to 9.4 percent in July had...
Washington Gives Us the Treatment
Item: The New York Times for July 30 reported that the White House and other supporters of overhauling the U.S. healthcare system are being met by resistance, charging that...
Stimulus Scam Redux?
Item: President Barack Obama, reported the Bloomberg news agency for July 11, “said his $787 billion stimulus bill ‘has worked as intended’ as he pushed back against Republican criticism...
Taxing Energy in the Name of Climate Change
The San Francisco Chronicle reported on June 25: “The climate-change legislation likely to win House approval Friday will produce ‘millions of jobs’ in renewable energy technologies while slowing down...