Senator Tom Coburn has a pet project. It’s called Wastebook, Mr. Coburn is sadly retiring at the end of this year (read The Doctor is Out), and the 239-page Wastebook he is releasing this week will be his final as senator. Leading this year’s edition is $19 million in salaries that the government paid to workers who […]
Archives for October 2014
A Step in the Right Direction on Ebola
The Obama administration has taken a small step in the right direction on preventing Ebola from reaching U.S. shores. The Department of Homeland Security has narrowed down the ports of entry for travelers from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone to five airports including: Dulles, JFK, Newark, O’Hare and Atlanta. Reuters reports: Affected travelers will have […]
Obama’s Shocking Poll Numbers
The NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll shows that (a) 61% of Americans disapprove of the job Barack Obama is doing on foreign policy, and (b) 65% of Americans believe that the country is on the wrong track! I just looked at the Real Clear Politics average job approval ratings for Obama in 15 key states. […]
Ireland’s 12.5% Corporate Tax Winner
The Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell weaves a compelling story featuring a “remarkable acknowledgement by Bono that free markets were the best way to lift people out of poverty.” The leader of the U2 band and long-time anti-poverty activist specifically stated that, “capitalism has been the most effective ideology we have known in taking people out […]
Government Maleficence
“I also wish that during the years I was in public office, I had had this firsthand experience about the difficulties business people face every day. That knowledge would have made me a better U.S. senator and a more understanding presidential contender.” George McGovern, writing in the WSJ, 1992 Netflix founder Marc Adreessen writes of […]
A Presidential Pariah?
“Obama is President Pariah in these final weeks of the 2014 midterms. Vulnerable Democratic candidates don’t want to be seen with him,” writes Dana Milbank in the Washington Post. This past Sunday, about 20 minutes into President Obama’s rare campaign appearance for Maryland’s gubernatorial candidate Anthony Brown, an exodus began as attendees raced out to […]
World Series Winner in Kansas: Gov. Brownback
Governor Sam Brownback is in the fight of his political life, under immense pressure by the tax and spend liberal left. It’s no mistake that Gov. Brownback was one of only four governors to receive an “A” grade in Cato’s Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors. My friend Chris Edwards at Cato calls out […]
Sunnis Aren’t Biting
Obama needs Iraq’s Sunnis against ISIS. And it appears to be a no-go. Here State Department whistle blower Peter Van Buren explains what’s going on and why. When ISIS first took control of Sunni areas in western Iraq, anger towards the Shia government in Baghdad caused many to see them as liberators. The Iraqi army, […]
U.S.Repeating Past Mistakes
Here the American Conservative’s Daniel Larison explains America’s tendency to exaggerate foreign threats. Stephen Walt sees the U.S. repeating past mistakes in its war on ISIS. The first mistake he identifies is the tendency to exaggerate foreign threats: Why is threat inflation a problem? When we exaggerate dangers in order to sell a military [action], […]
Which Country is the World’s Small Government Model?
This fall Americans have a chance to throw out the big government interventionists. Thanks to the Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell for producing a small government template for all America-first candidates. Here Dan explains the worldwide model that Hong Kong has become with it’s 15% flat tax. It is time the Washington elite began to do […]
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