, Hero’s unwelcome By ANNIE KARNI February 20, 2011 Columbia University students heckled a war hero during a town-hall meeting on whether ROTC should be allowed back on campus. “Racist!” some students yelled at Anthony Maschek, a Columbia freshman and former Army staff sergeant awarded the Purple Heart after being shot 11 times in a
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NEWS&OBSERVER Feb 18, 2011 Red ink and raw cynicism by Charles Krauthammer WASHINGTON Five days before his inauguration, President-elect Barack Obama told The Washington Post that entitlement reform could no longer be kicked down the road. He then spent the next two years kicking – racking up $3 trillion in new debt along the way
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FEBRUARY 19, 2011 Who’s in charge of our political system—voters or unions? By JOHN FUND This week President Obama was roundly criticized, even by many of his allies, for submitting a federal budget that actually increases our already crushing deficit. But that didn’t stop him Thursday from jumping into Wisconsin’s titanic budget battle. He accused
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FEBRUARY 18, 2011 A seminal showdown between public unions and taxpayers. For Americans who don’t think the welfare state riots of France or Greece can happen here, we recommend a look at the union and Democratic Party spectacle now unfolding in Wisconsin. Over the past few days, thousands have swarmed the state capital and airwaves
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JOURNAL SENTINEL.COM Unions want to overturn election result Feb. 16, 2011 Say you generally liked Gov. Scott Walker’s move to rein in government labor costs but had a few doubts on his method. The last few days should have cleared that up nicely. The public-sector union tantrums, meant to make lawmakers wobble, have an inadvertent
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OBAMA’S BUDGET BLUFF By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN Published on DickMorris.com on February 14, 2011 The Obama Administration and its acolytes on the Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction commission are propagating the myth that it is Social Security and Medicare that are driving the deficit over $1.5 trillion. Discretionary spending, they plead, is but a tiny
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