Federal Spending is the Problem: Defense is Not!
by George Landrith With a long history of federal overspending and the recent explosion of more federal debt, it is obvious that the federal budget must be cut back to…
The Real Fiscal Cliff
“After the phony cliff, we face the terrifying one.” by Conrad Black Last week, Fareed Zakaria and Charles Krauthammer appeared in Toronto (where I live much of the time), and…
Clinton Era Taxes and Clinton Era Spending
by George Landrith With the budget and fiscal crisis facing the United States and difficult economic times surely ahead for the foreseeable future, President Barack Obama has vociferously argued that…
Fiscal Crisis: Failing the Details, Math and Leadership Tests
by George Landrith President Barack Obama repeatedly chided Mitt Romney’s budget plan during the presidential campaign on at least two grounds: (1) it lacked detail, and (2) the math didn’t…
Ronald Reagan on Tax Cutting Legislation (The “whole controversy”)
“This whole controversy: Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?” by Scott L. Vanatter…
Mandates, Taxes, Spending Cuts and Crazy Talk
by George Landrith After a long, tough campaign, Barack Obama won reelection by a slim 51% to 49%. Now Obama is claiming a broad mandate to increasing taxes and demands…
Fact-checking President Obama
by George Landrith Let’s fact check President Barack Obama’s debate statements. He spent a lot of time since the first debate and during the second debate complaining that what Gov.…
Romney won the second debate
by Dick Morris By scoring big on the economy, gas prices, and Libya, Romney continued his victorious string of debate wins. He looked more presidential than Obama did and showed…
The most divisive President: A presidency wasted
by Victor Davis Hanson The Obama narrative is that he inherited the worst mess in memory and has been stymied ever since by a partisan Congress — while everything from new…
Economy, Debates Reveal Obama, Biden Haven’t Got What It Takes
by Peter Morici This election should be about the economy — the recovery is too slow and Americans are hurting. The performances of President Obama and Vice President Biden in…
Obama’s Weak Economy: Five Reasons
by Scott L. Vanatter What kind of economy did Obama inherit? Brit Hume put it this way: “A central premise of the Obama campaign is that he inherited an economy…
Vice Presidential Debate Analysis
By George Landrith Post Debate Analysis: Biden was smug, arrogant, condescending, over-bearing and over-aggressive. I’ve never seen a debate where one person was so disrespectful and even contemptuous of his…
Obama’s new winning issue – Big Bird’s endorsement
Obama still doesn’t get it. He’s been president for four years and paid little attention to economic recovery or jobs. Now that there is four weeks left in the election,…
Big Bird can make it rain on his own
by Taylor Bigler Big Bird is a billionaire. A Warren Buffett, Eric Schmidt, Steve Jobs billionaire, which is pretty impressive considering that he is not a real person but rather…
Princeton Economist: Romney Tax Plan Mathematically Sound
by Tony Lee Bill Clinton, President Barack Obama, and liberal think tanks have claimed Mitt Romney’s plan to cut tax rates across the board by 20 percent is bad arithmetic,…