Obama’s New Course: More of the Same
President Bush leaves office amidst the greatest economic calamity in several generations, perhaps ever. The federal budget deficit is poised to triple last year's record $400 billion, rising to a projected...
Politics
The Trouble With Leon Panetta
On January 5, the nation's new media learned that President-elect Barack Obama would nominate former congressman and Clinton administration official Leon Panetta as the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency....
Obama’s Plan: Increase the $1.2 Trillion Deficit
President-elect Barack Obama has a plan to bring the federal budget under control: spend more and increase the record $1.2 trillion deficit projected for the current fiscal year. ...
Kissinger Urges Obama to Build a “New World Order”
According to Henry Kissinger, the various political and economic crises currently conflicting the world offer President-elect Barack Obama an opportunity to create a "new world order." That's what the former Secretary...
Neoconservatism in the Obama Age
Neoconservatives are elated with Obama's appointments, recognizing that the new guard is very much like the old. ...
Skepticism About Second Amendment Support
ITEM: The Chicago Sun-Times reported on December 8: "As gun sales shoot up around the country, President-elect Barack Obama said Sunday that gun-owning Americans do not need to rush out and...
Is Conservatism Dead?
The rise of the neoconservatives within the GOP has not only discredited the Grand Old Party but tarnished the image of conservatism. ...
Paul Weyrich Passes Away
A leader of what became known as the "New Right," veteran conservative activist Paul Weyrich passed away on December 18 after a long bout with diabetes. A native of Wisconsin, he...
Rick Warren, the CFR, and Barack Obama
Is Obama’s choice of Rick Warren to give the invocation at the presidential inauguration purposefully driven? The news media, Evangelicals, the gay community, pro-lifers, and the general public are all agog...
Obama Names Duncan Education Secretary
On Tuesday, President-elect Barack Obama nominated the head of the Chicago school system, Arne Duncan, to serve as education secretary for the new administration. Nationally, little is known about Duncan, who...
Ohio Constitutional Convention Resolution Killed by Grassroots Pressure
On December 10 the Judiciary Committee of the Ohio House held a hearing on House Joint Resolution No. 8 (HJR 8), “Applying to the Congress of the United States pursuant to...
Run Auto Companies? “We Cannot Even Run the Government,” Ensign Says
Senator John Ensign (R-Nev.) wonders how the government could successfully run the Big Three automakers when it cannot even run itself. On December 11, before the $14 billion bailout bill died...
Automaker Bailout Fails in the Senate
H.R. 7321, the auto bailout bill which swept through the House of Representatives on Wednesday, died in the Senate on Thursday evening when negotiations with the automakers and union representatives reached...
Court Won’t Hear Obama Citizenship Case — but May Soon
On Monday, December 8, the Supreme Court unsurprisingly decided not to hear a case by retired lawyer Leo Donofrio claiming that Obama is not eligible to be president because Obama had...
Bush Says Saddam Hussein Was Not Connected to 9/11
Addressing the Saban Forum on December 5, President George W. Bush stated: "It is true, as I've said many times, that Saddam Hussein was not connected to the 9/11 attacks." ...