Thanks to a young Republican, Brady Nemeth, for sharing these two educational links. These are two great videos that just came out today. They’re both short and to the point (the first is just 1 minute, the second is roughly 5 minutes), and leave out any politics, which means that they are great for sharing
TWO GREAT VIDEOS – SPENDING CUTS IN PERSPECTIVE AND THE FREE MARKET Read More »
June 15, 2011 “Brother, Can You Spare a Regulation?” By Tony Blankley Last week, in a much-discussed, open, live, televised forum, Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, asked Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke the $64 trillion question. While most commentators focused on the apt question, it was Bernanke’s answer that shocked me when I
REGULATING THE NATION INTO A DEPRESSION Read More »
Power Play by Nina Easton Obama’s labor union problem By Nina Easton, senior editor-at-large @FortuneMagazine June 30, 2011: FORTUNE — How many ways are there to sidestep Congress’ refusal to make it easier for unions to organize? Let us count them. No, better than that, let’s add yet another example — this one involving Delta
OBAMA’S LABOR UNION PROBLEM Read More »
JUNE 30, 2011 Teddie E. Pryor Sr. Chairman , Charleston County Council, Charleston, S.C. Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr., Charleston, S.C. Mayor R. Keith Summey, North Charleston, S.C. Mayor Billy Swails, Mount Pleasant, S.C. We find Thomas Geoghegan’s “Boeing’s Threat to American Enterprise” (op-ed, June 20) astounding in its ignorance toward our manufacturing statistics and
LETTER TO THE EDITOR – BOEING EXPANSION IN SOUTH CAROLINA IS A SMART MOVE Read More »
FORBES by Steve Forbes Fact and Comment For Whom The Greek Bell Tolls 07.18.11 Given its rich mercantile heritage in the Mediterranean, Greece should be the Hong Kong/Singapore/ Switzerland of the Balkans. Its emigrants and their descendants have been huge business successes in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Canada and elsewhere. Yet Greece is bankrupt,
FOR WHOM THE GREEK BELL TOLLS – STEVE FORBES Read More »
JUNE 25, 2011 The real risks of the shale gas revolution, and how to manage them. The U.S. is in the midst of an energy revolution, and we don’t mean solar panels or wind turbines. A new gusher of natural gas from shale has the potential to transform U.S. energy production—that is, unless politicians, greens
THE FACTS ABOUT FRACKING Read More »
REAL CLEAR POLITICS June 27, 2011 Like Chauncey Gardiner, Obama Is Profoundly Aloof By Michael Barone EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:Sometimes it seems he’s president of the AFL-CIO, not the U.S.A. The man who said he wanted to double exports in five years has nothing to say about his National Labor Relations Board appointee’s attempt to
OBAMA IS STRANGELY ALOOF Read More »
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Fred Barnes June 13, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 37 The Obama administration is 0-for-3 in meeting economic expectations. In 2009, President Obama and his advisers believed the bountiful stimulus package would give the economy a strong jolt. It didn’t, and still hasn’t. In 2010, Obama declared Recovery Summer and
Published on Washington Examiner (http://washingtonexaminer.com) By Timothy P. Carney Jun 14 2011 – If your goal were to foster more political cronyism, reward lobbyists, entrench incumbents, enrich the politically connected, and get the revolving door spinning faster, you would have a hard time crafting a more useful piece of legislation than the Dodd-Frank financial regulation
DURBIN, TESTER, LOBBYISTS, AND THE DODD-FRANK CORRUPTION MACHINE Read More »
US NEWS America’s Fading Exceptionalism Only serious leadership on immigration, the national debt, and unemployment will make America great once again By Mortimer B. Zuckerman Posted: June 10, 2011 Our 21st century does not seem to be on course to be described as the “American century,” the title indubitably merited for the 20th century. For
AMERICA’S FADING EXCEPTIONALISM – MORT ZUCKERMAN Read More »
