By Terence Jeffrey (Archive) · Wednesday, May 9, 2012 What does President Barack Obama know about the economy and what the government can and cannot do to create jobs? A fair measure is the economic stimulus plan Obama pushed through Congress in his first month in office. Did it work? On Jan. 9, 2009, less [...]

May 8, 2012  View Enlarged Image Taxes: A new IBD/TIPP poll finds most back President Obama’s soak-the-rich Buffett tax rule. But they also want dividend and capital gains taxes kept low to encourage investment and growth. Problem is, you can’t do both. The IBD/TIPP survey found that 55% of Americans think investment income should be “taxed at [...]

May 8, 2012 Sovereignty: Even if he’s not re-elected, the president hopes to leave behind a treaty giving a U.N. body veto power over the use of our territorial waters and to which we’d be required to give half of our offshore oil revenue. The Law Of The Sea Treaty (LOST) has been lurking in [...]

American freedoms are being replaced with the illusion of security By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Tuesday, May 8, 2012 Tampa, Fla., wants to cancel the rights of concealed-carry permit holders in the vicinity of the upcoming Republican National Convention. Commuter-train passengers in Chicago will be subjected to frisking and airport-style X-ray scanning during [...]

May 8, 2012 The results of the elections in France and Greece have made it abundantly clear that there is a tremendous backlash against the austerity approach that Germany has been pushing.  All over Europe, prominent politicians and incumbent political parties are being voted out.  In fact, Nicolas Sarkozy has become the 11th leader of [...]

Smaller, More Flexible Special-Operations Teams Would Tackle Emerging Threats Under New Plan May 7, 2012 – WSJ By JULIAN E. BARNES And ADAM ENTOUS WASHINGTON—U.S. military leaders have developed new proposals to speed the deployment of elite American special-operations forces to a growing number of the world’s trouble spots, advancing the Obama administration’s emerging approach [...]

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May 8, 2012 – John Hawkins There’s a reason it took the country so long to pull out of the Great Depression under FDR, why Americans became acquainted with the Misery Index under Carter, and why we’ve had the weakest economic recovery from a recession in U.S. history under Obama. Liberal economic policies just don’t [...]

By David Limbaugh (Archive) · Tuesday, May 8, 2012 President Obama formally kicked off his re-election campaign in Richmond, Va., and Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, and his theme was certainly not, shall we say, “it’s morning again in America” — President Ronald Reagan’s optimistic re-election slogan in 1984. Obama’s central message was more like: “Hey, I [...]

By William Murchison (Archive) · Tuesday, May 8, 2012 What Barack Obama has going for him in 2012 is, well, put it this way: human nature. Witness the French. Witness the Greeks. Part of being human is wanting all you can get without paying any more for it than absolutely necessary. In the context of [...]