N.C. Schools: Those Who Erase History
02/08/2010
By William A. Wilson
It is one thing to forget, ignore or misinterpret our nation’s history, but a group of uber-liberal educrats in North Carolina is taking the radical revisionism of America one step further. These politically-correct, taxpayer-funded “thought police” are actually trying to erase American history from our children’s textbooks... http://blog.getliberty.org/default.asp?Display=2006
Growing Beyond Consent Of The Governed
By BETSY McCAUGHEY
Posted 02/01/2010 06:49 PM ET
The $3.8 trillion dollar federal budget that President Obama announced Monday is another bruising blow to American freedom. Government is growing beyond the consent of the governed... http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=519772
After Toyota's Hit, Why Invest Here?
Posted 02/05/2010 07:16 PM ET
Commerce: Now that Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has served notice he's "not finished" with Toyota, how keen will other foreigners be to invest and create jobs here? This political show could cost us... http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=520380
Keep it up! Your letters and protests do count!
Great Scott!
By Thomas Sowell
Some of the most melancholy letters and e-mails that are sent to me are from people who lament that there is nothing they can do about the bad policies that they see ruining this country. They don't have any media outlet for their opinions and the letters they send to their Congressmen are either ignored or are answered by form letters with weasel words. They feel powerless.... http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell012610.php3
February 07, 2010
Populist Constitutionalism and the Tea Party
By Larrey Anderson
"Populist Constitutionalism" - that's what the Tea Party is all about. Love and respect for the Constitution is driving the movement. Sharing the document, and then discussing the meaning, purpose, and the ideas of the Constitution, that is the process that is taking place as a result of this love and respect.... http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/populist_constitutionalism_and.html
Americans Reject Keynesian Economics
Friday, February 05, 2010
While influential 20th Century economist John Maynard Keynes would say it’s best to increase deficit spending in tough economic times, only 11% of American adults agree and think the nation needs to increase its deficit spending at this time. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 70% disagree and say it would be better to cut the deficit... http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/business/general_business/february_2010/americans_reject_keynesian_economics
Republican Scott Brown of Massachusetts sworn in to Senate
His replacement of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy means Democrats no longer have the 60 votes they need to avert a GOP filibuster... http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-brown5-2010feb05,0,6040960.story
Is US bullying Toyota on recall?
By Mira Oberman (AFP) – 18 hours ago
CHICAGO — The US transportation chief's public rebukes of Toyota's handling of a massive safety recall have raised eyebrows, given the US government's major stake in rivals General Motors and Chrysler... http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5im7AzPBsRb2Q_qT0FXa8DxrjjLwA
Justice Defends Ruling on Finance
By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: February 3, 2010
Justice Thomas responded to several questions from students at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Fla., concerning the campaign finance case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/us/politics/04scotus.html?hp
Washington Times
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Ralph Z. Hallow
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele has maneuvered through a minefield of internal discontent, emerging from a critical party gathering with his authority intact and a strategy to harness the energy of the "tea party" movement to the Republican cause.
High-profile Republican gubernatorial wins in Virginia and New Jersey and a victory in the recent special Senate election in Massachusetts have helped quiet grumbling within the RNC over Mr. Steele, whose position and authority seemed shaky just a few months ago.
A feared open revolt against the former Maryland lieutenant governor fizzled at the 168-member RNC's winter gathering in Honolulu over the weekend, despite lingering questions about the party's finances and the chairman's side business dealings.
"The party came away from its winter meeting fired up and unified," said North Dakota GOP Chairman Gary Emineth, a Steele supporter on the RNC. Mr. Steele "had the benefit of New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts to build on, because the RNC invested significant financial resources and time, which paid off."
"If there is any concern, it is the limited amount of cash on hand with a huge opportunity before us in 2010," Mr. Emineth added.
In the view of RNC General Counsel Reince Priebus, who is also Wisconsin GOP state chairman, the "embattled" label on Mr. Steele "is nothing but fiction."
Mr. Steele is "popular with the members of the RNC, and he is.............. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/04/steele-weathering-discontent-in-rnc
Comes with strings attached...
Morning Bell: The President’s Permanent Political Slush Fund
February 3rd, 2010 at 9:32am
After suffering major electoral and legislative defeats last month, President Barack Obama took to the campaign trail in Nashua, New Hampshire, pitching his administration’s latest new plan to lower our nation’s double digit unemployment rate. This time, the President hopes to do for small businesses what Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac did for home mortgages. Specifically, he wants to create a new $30 billion “Small Business Lending Fund” which will loan money to banks with assets under $10 billion at favorable new rates, as long as they comply with a slew of new regulations designed to incentivize them to loan that money to small businesses... http://blog.heritage.org/2010/02/03/morning-bell-the-presidents-permanent-political-slush-fund/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell
January 31st, 2010 Author: politicalmath
... I hate the “We’re saving all this money by not spending it” line because it is similarly political. If a future politician wants to play this stupid numbers game, all they have to do is “project” that they will spend like a crazy person next year and when the next year comes, they decided to spend like a half crazy person. Then they can claim that they have “saved” all this money because they “reduced” their projected spending.... http://www.politicalmathblog.com/?p=310
Sen.-elect Brown demands to be seated
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
By Joseph Curl
Massachusetts Sen.-elect Scott Brown on Wednesday demanded to be seated immediately, saying that while he is set to be sworn in Feb. 11, "there are a number of votes scheduled prior to that date."... http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/03/sen-elect-scott-brown-demands-be-seated/
Backdoor taxes to hit middle class
Mon Feb 1, 4:09 PM
By Terri Cullen
In the 2010 budget tabled by President Barack Obama on Monday, the White House wants to let billions of dollars in tax breaks expire by the end of the year -- effectively a tax hike by stealth... http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/100201/us/usreport_us_budget_backdoortaxes
N.L. Premier Williams set to have heart surgery in U.S.
Kenyon Wallace, National Post
Published: Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Mr. Williams' decision to leave Canada for the surgery has raised eyebrows over his apparent shunning of Canada's health-care system.... http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2510700
Liberties oversight panel gets short shrift
Seats on board left unfilled by Obama
By Eli Lake Tuesday, February 2, 2010
President Obama is coming under pressure from Democrats and civil liberties groups for failing to fill positions on an oversight panel formed in 2004 to make sure the government does not spy improperly on U.S. citizens... http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/02/liberties-oversight-panel-gets-short-shr-15642008/
Former Polish President Lech Walesa Endorses Ill. GOP Candidate, Local Media Ignore
By Lachlan Markay
Tue, 02/02/2010
The only local television coverage the endorsement event received was from Chicago's ABC News station, which showed Walesa and Andrzejewski on stage while covering a Tea Party rally at the event, but never even mentioned the former president by name (see video).... http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lachlan-markay/2010/02/02/former-polish-president-lech-walesa-endorses-ill-gop-candidate-local
