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Obamacare Opponents Have to Keep Pushing Repeal
Tweet Share on Facebook June 18, 2013 CommentCongress is getting busy, starting to move legislation on everything from soup to nuts. For a columnist, this creates a target rich environment, filled with things to poke at because they go too far, don't go far enough or are just silly.
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Can Obama's Berlin Speech Match John F. Kennedy's and Ronald Reagan's?
Tweet Share on Facebook June 18, 2013 CommentPresident Obama has been called one of the most eloquent of the modern presidents – and not without reason. That reputation will be put to the test tomorrow when he speaks in Berlin, a city which has served as the stage for two of the best-known modern presidential speeches: John F. Kennedy's "ich bin ein Berliner" address, which will see its 50th anniversary next week, and Ronald Reagan's "tear down this wall" address.
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Reform Conservatives Need to Tackle Unemployment and Jobs
Tweet Share on Facebook June 18, 2013 CommentIf you care about the Republican Party's plans to modernize, then you should know that there have been some positive developments on that front online. There is a growing community of "reform conservatives," and they are broadly unified by two big ideas: a willingness to recognize that the economic problems America faces are different from the problems President Reagan faced, and the understanding that the task most appropriate for the Republican Party to tackle is the economic health of America's middle class.
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If Background Checks are Good Enough for Guns, They're Good Enough for Jobs
Tweet Share on Facebook June 18, 2013 CommentAs Senate democrats and President Barack Obama gear up for another round of gun control legislation, I find it ironic that the same lawmakers who think expanded background checks are useful in helping filter out who shouldn't own a gun, don't see the same benefits when used by U.S. businesses to sift through potential job candidates.
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NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Is Neither a Whistle-Blower Nor a Civil Disobeyer
Tweet Share on Facebook June 18, 2013 CommentIn July 1846, Massachusetts tax collector Sam Staples confronted Henry David Thoreau, a transcendentalist period philosopher, over his delinquent six-year tax bill. Staples threatened Thoreau with arrest if he didn't pay, but Thoreau refused. He opposed the Mexican-American War and slavery, and didn't want to give the government money to fund things he objected to. He willingly went to jail.
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Obama Should Bring Small Business Owners on His Trip to Africa
Tweet Share on Facebook June 18, 2013 CommentCan we have a little fun?
The news has been filled with one tough story after another for months. Washington has been focused on gun safety, the political jockeying over the tragedy in Benghazi, the IRS controversy and secret electronic surveillance programs. Political gridlock is the bitter icing on this sourpatch cake making it no surprise that confidence in Congress is down to 10 percent in a recent Gallup poll and a CNN poll shows President Obama's approval rating has dropped overall and by 17 points with young people in the last month.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Divorce and Robert Kraft’s Super Bowl Ring
Tweet Share on Facebook June 18, 2013 CommentRussian President Vladimir Putin is the former head of the feared KGB. He has been blamed for the mafia state that has infested Russia since the dissolution of the former Soviet Union. He has presided over the selective punishment of political opponents such as oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the band Pussy Riot and a bunch of protestors labeled rioters for participating in a rally a year ago.
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Syria, Israel and the Obama Administration's Absentee Foreign Policy
Tweet Share on Facebook June 17, 2013 CommentEven though it has been more 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world still has yet to settle on any kind of a new political axis. China is growing more and more adventuresome in the Pacific as it expands its territorial claims in the open seas. Russia seeks to preserve its control over Eastern Europe and the breakaway republics through energy – particularly natural gas – instead of through military might. In South America there's a new – and unfriendly to the United States – power bloc shaping up. And in the Middle East things are going from bad to worse.
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Obamacare Contraception Mandate Targets the First Amendment
Tweet Share on Facebook June 17, 2013 CommentLost for some people amid worries about National Security Agency surveillance practices, Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative organizations and Department of Justice investigations of journalists who dared to speak to government employees is another troubling example of inappropriate federal overreach – the Health and Human Services contraception mandate.
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Obama Passive-Aggressive in the Face of Syria Hawks
Tweet Share on Facebook June 17, 2013 CommentPresident Obama can't outrun Syria any longer.
Actually he can't outrun the hawks – some from within his own administration – prodding him toward the bitter bloodbath going on in a lawless country ruled by a ruthless tyrant. So reluctantly, he let it be known we would arm the rebels. He let an aide, Benjamin Rhodes, break the news, as if to say he didn't want his own hands stained with blood.
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