Tag: Barack Obama
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Stimulus Pushers
If we needed more evidence of President Barack_Obama’s inclination to shower public treasure on public sector unions, here it is. The Wall Street Journal details some of the ways that last week’s mini-stimulus bill is a gift to public sector unions at the cost of everyone else.
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President Obama job approval
As President Barack Obama develops a track record, and as people become familiar with his policies and their results, they realize don’t like this man and his policies.
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Obama health care rejected in Missouri election
What are we to think when President Obama’s signature legislative achievement is highly unpopular with Americans?
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At RightOnline, John Fund is hopeful, but warns
At Saturday’s general session of the RightOnline conference at The Venetian in Las Vegas, Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund told the audience of 1,100 conservative activists that they will win in November, but opposition is already planning to derail the victory.
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Herman Cain: Conservatives should dream, be united, informed, inspired
At this weekend’s RightOnline conference at The Venetian in Las Vegas, businessman and radio talk show host Herman Cain delivered an inspirational message to the audience of some 1,100 conservative activists from across the country.
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Financial reform passes Congress
This afternoon the United States Senate passed sweeping financial services regulation, sending the bill to President Obama. As the President has championed this legislation, it is certain he will sign the bill.
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President Obama’s job approval in Kansas
The job approval rating for President Obama in Kansas is on a downhill trend.
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Supply-side economics, not taxes, cure for recession, audience told
Sound money and income tax cuts — the elements of supply-side economics — have produced economic growth in America, according to Dr. Brian Domitrovic of Sam Houston State University. When our country imposes inflationary loose money policies and high income taxes, economic growth suffers, as in the period from 1973 to 1982. Unfortunately, these are…
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Health care about to get worse
The market for health insurance should be more like the market for auto insurance: less government regulation.
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Kansas schools fail to make cut for grants
Last year Secretary of Education Arne Duncan created a program named “Race to the Top” which would make grants to states that are willing to make certain reforms. Two such reforms prominently mentioned by Duncan and President Barack Obama are charter schools and merit pay for teachers. We now know that Kansas was not selected…
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The stimulus evidence one year on
Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported a piece that analyzes whether the Obama stimulus plan, after one year’s time, can be judged a success. (See The Stimulus Evidence One Year On) Robert J. Barro, who is professor of economics at Harvard University and a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, writes that the…
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Why Obama is wrong about net neutrality
“Net neutrality” sounds like a noble concept, doesn’t it? It’s another example of one political position co-opting language in a way that mislabels the underlying agenda.