Charles Krauthammer rehearses the staggering national debt that we are facing and that it can only mean raising taxes. He says the only tax that could raise the kind of revenue we need will be the Value Added Tax, the national sales tax on every
Charles Krauthammer rehearses the staggering national debt that we are facing and that it can only mean raising taxes. He says the only tax that could raise the kind of revenue we need will be the Value Added Tax, the national sales tax on every
An editorial in the Washington Post, no less, which supported the health care reform bill, admits that the lawsuits seeking to strike down the new law may have a case: Just minutes after Tuesday’s signing ceremony, the constitutionality of the health insurance reform law came
This grew out of a conversation I had yesterday with a student over lunch. He was talking about why the books are nearly always better than the movies that are made based on them. I said that this is true, but there are some cases
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has sobering news about the federal budget: President Obama's fiscal 2011 budget will generate nearly $10 trillion in cumulative budget deficits over the next 10 years, $1.2 trillion more than the administration projected, and raise the federal debt to 90
HT: Rich Shipe
The health care reform bill consisted of 1,990 pages. Congressmen could hardly have read what they were voting for. Who knows what all is in there? There may be all kinds of surprises. For example, to the dismay of many liberals, funding for abstinence education–which
Why do so many Americans have such a visceral reaction against the new health care law? It seems to me like a bad law, poorly thought through and terrifyingly expensive, especially given our present deficits. But I’m thinking that even if it were not so
I’m not a Sinead O’Connor fan, but the Irish singer–notorious for tearing up a picture of Pope John Paul on “Saturday Night Live” some years ago–has written a scathing op-ed piece on the priest child-molestation scandal coming out in Ireland. She herself says that she
So, how are your NCAA basketball brackets going? Did ANYONE pick Butler, Michigan State, West Virginia, and Duke to be in the Final Four? I gave up after Kansas, one of my alma maters, got upset. Reason and reason alone would suggest Duke, the only
Thanks to tODD for actually doing research on that piece I blogged about by Civil Rights activist turned conservative Roy Innis, accusing the Obama administration of devastating Ghana because of its global warming mandates: This article appears to be less than truthful. I searched on