Welfarism

• Where’s the Accountability?
  Late last week JPMorgan Chase announced that it had lost some $2.3 billion, and possibly more, as a result [...]
• For the Sake of Fairness: Let’s Redistribute top 10% of GPA’s so EVERYONE can Graduate
  Are self-achieved grades fair? Why not redistribute the top 10%’s GPAs for the general welfare of the campus? Carthage College [...]
• Paul Amendment to Export-Import Bank Reauthorization Fails
  WASHINGTON, D.C – On May 16, the U.S. Senate voted on a series of amendments to the Export-Import Reauthorization bill [...]
• Lee offers Amendment to End Export-Import Bank
  WASHINGTON—Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) delivered a speech on the Senate floor yesterday regarding his amendment to the Export-Import Bank Reauthorization [...]
• The Coming Fiscal Collapse of California
  Please mark January 1, 2013 on your calendar.  That will be an historic day for the State of California. Unless things [...]
• Sen. Paul Urges Senate to Reject Re-Authorization of the Export-Import Bank
  WASHINGTON, D.C – Today, Sen. Rand Paul took to the Senate floor to oppose the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank. [...]
• Women of the Welfare State
  I just hope the Obamis are as stupid as we conservatives imagine.  Because it would be too bad if the [...]
• The People’s Pottage: Foreword
  Garet Garrett (1878-1954) is a voice largely forgotten or altogether unknown today. Born in Illinois, by the age of twenty-five [...]
• The End of French Champagne and French Pastry
  The Headlines over the weekend included the fact that “Socialist Francois Hollande swept to victory in France’s presidential election on [...]
• Free-market Economist Dissects Obama’s ‘Life of Julia’ Slideshow
  Obama’s recent I-Can’t-Make-It-Without-Government-Welfare-And-Assistance slide-show “The Life of Julia” — see here: http://www.barackobama.com/life-of-julia The verdict: We’re hopeless without Big Government programs that [...]
• Your Tax Dollars Subsidizing the Wealthy
  We knew electric vehicles were expensive, but we didn’t know just how much of that expense was the battery alone. [...]
• Occupier Gangs and Unions To Terrorize America on May 1
  The biggest holiday in the old Soviet Unions was May 1, “May Day”.  It was a celebration of the worker—actually, [...]
• How to keep the poor poor
  Media personality Tavis Smiley and Princeton philosophy professor Cornell West have just published their latest contribution to American [...]
• Immigration: 150 Million Want to Relocate to US
  Recently a Gallup survey showed that out of the worlds 640 million people who wish to leave their home country,  [...]
• Obama as Lawbreaker
  Nine State Attorneys General TAKE A STAND Against Barack Hussein Obama — Saying He Is A LAWBREAKER! IT’S STARTING — [...]
• Mr. President, It’s All of the Above
  Even MSNBC reckons that the president had a bad week.  The bad-hair week, according to Chuck Todd, included the “tax-fairness [...]
• Christie the Prophet
  New Jersey governor Chris Christie recently warned that America is in danger of becoming a country of “people [...]
• What You Missed Over Recess
  Shocker: Obamacare Will Increase the Deficit: Medicare public trustee Chuck Blahous released a report last week explaining how, after taking [...]
• Obama makes foul call for economic ‘fairness’
  You have got to give credit where credit is due. President Barack Obama has laid out the core message of his [...]
• The Buffett Rule: Class Warfare In The Making
  On April 16th, the Senate will vote on the Buffett Rule, and we must educate them on how bad [...]
• The Day the Supreme Court Laughed at Liberalism
  One of the historical judgments about the Supreme Court striking down many of FDR’s early New Deal measures—especially the [...]
• 7-Day New York March for DREAM Act
  From the Editor: Welfare for our own people is crippling our economy (and moral fiber) enough, yet demands for it [...]
• The mystery on the cliff: Whose fingerprints are on granny’s wheelchair?
  Our country is steep in debt, going further in debt, and the government is digging the hole deeper each and [...]
• Garet Garrett: Ex-America, part IV
  Garet Garrett (1878-1954) is a voice largely forgotten or altogether unknown today. Born in Illinois, by the age of twenty-five [...]
• How many incumbents voted themselves a pay raise this year?
  President Obama bashed Mitt Romney by name this week, in a sign that the presidential race is finally in [...]
• Supreme Contempt
  Recently President Obama made this remarkable statement, “Ultimately, I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be [...]
• Ron Paul: The Supreme Court and Obamacare
  Last week the Supreme Court heard arguments concerning the constitutionality of the Obamacare law, focusing on the mandate [...]
• America at Risk: Repeal ObamaCare
  The much-anticipated Supreme Court “fireworks” are over—for now. Three grueling days of legal wrangling have resulted in some sort of decision, [...]
• Does the federal government know better than you?
  President Barack Obama and his liberal cronies are trying to turn America into communist China – where the only way [...]
• The Supreme Court Clash Over Obamacare
  As we are in the midst of the days that the United States Supreme Court takes on the Obamacare [...]
• Prosecutorial Discretion is Obama’s Amnesty
  The unthinkable has happened! Under any other president—this would not have happened! Barack Obama – via his self-proclaimed “Prosecutorial Discretion” edict has [...]
• Ron Paul on Supreme Court healthcare case: ‘I suspect they’re going to rule it constitutional’
  Ron Paul on Monday said that his “big guess” about the Supreme Court’s ruling on the constitutionality of the controversial [...]
• Fed Chairman says Central Bank not Responsible for Housing Bubble
  Optimists call it a great recession, while realists call it a depression. Our economy — regardless of labels — is [...]
• Alert: Liberals Trying to Sway Justices to SUPPORT Obamacare
  The Washington Post is reporting that next week’s Supreme Court hearing on Obamacare might swing in favor of that socialist [...]
• GOP must decide: Reject Dems’ crony capitalism?
  When President Eisenhower appointed General Motors CEO Charles Erwin Wilson to be Secretary of Defense, many people questioned whether [...]
• Who Decided That It Would Be A Good Idea…
  Do you have faith in the people running this nation?  When answering that question, most people would bash either [...]
• Hitting the Ceiling
  If you liked last year’s battle over raising the debt ceiling, just get ready for the fight to come. Last summer’s [...]
• America’s Verdict on Obama
  When Jonah Goldberg wrote Liberal Fascism back in 2008, liberals blew it off; they weren’t interested in engaging its arguments. [...]
• Transgender Illegal Alien Detainees Will Get ‘Hormone Therapy’ Courtesy of ICE
  Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the division the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) responsible for enforcing the [...]
• Boom-Era Property Speculators to Get Foreclosure Aid
  The Obama administration will extend mortgage assistance for the first time to investors who bought multiple homes before the market [...]
• Cutting Spending is Possible
  Lawmakers in Idaho, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey and South Carolina are advancing legislation to scale [...]
• The DREAM Act Scam
  Exactly whose fault is it that the DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) has failed to [...]
• It’s Time For An Honest Budget
  Every year, Presidents and Congress produce budgets that fail to put forth a credible plan to save our country and [...]
• We’re Already Europe
  With seemingly every day bringing more bad news from Europe, many are beginning to ask how much longer the [...]
• America’s per capita Government debt worse than Greece
  The office of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions released a chart (shown above) that should prompt America to get her financial [...]
• Ron Paul says US ‘slipping into fascism’
  Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul slammed America’s system of governance at a rally in Kansas City, saying businesses and [...]
• Obama “phones in” to WIN the election
  Did you know that you’re paying a minimum of $80 a year to buy votes for Barack Obama? Hiding [...]
• Joe Biden: Recovery and Reinvestment Act lived up to its name
  The following is Vice President Joseph Biden’s opinion on the Obama Administration’s Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which was signed into [...]
• Santorum voted to preserve NEA funding
  When social conservatives were fighting to stop funding the National Endowment for the Arts in the 1990s, Rick Santorum was [...]
• Sen. Paul Continues to Push for the Elimination of Foreign Aid to Egypt
  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the U.S. Senate voted to limit debate on the 2013 highway bill. In its [...]
• 4 Easy Ways Conservatives Can Revive American Exceptionalism
  People who adopt American values are more noble than those under other traditions and ideologies so say the believers in [...]
• Up From Big Government Conservatism
  It was yet another embarrassing spectacle of Republicans squabbling over who was for big government first. Jim Talent, a former [...]
• Contraceptives and Catholic hospitals: The primary issue is Obamacare, not the First Amendment
  Does the mandate forcing Catholic hospitals to offer abortifacients and contraception violate the First Amendment? The surprising answer [...]
• Why Are Record Numbers Of Young Adults Jobless And Living At Home With Mom And Dad?
  In the United States today, unemployment among those age 18 to age 34 is at epidemic levels and the [...]
• 10 Things That Every American Should Know About The Federal Reserve
  What would happen if the Federal Reserve was shut down permanently?  That is a question that CNBC asked recently, [...]
• Illinois Gov creates DREAM Act scholarship fund
  Gov. Pat Quinn announced the DREAM Fund Commission at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights ( [...]
• Report: Government dependency jumps 25 percent since 2005
  The American public’s dependency on government programs jumped almost 25 percent since 2005, according to a study released Wednesday by [...]
• Sen. DeMint: Why Republicans Must Become More Libertarian
  “The new debate in the Republican party needs to be between conservatives and libertarians,” says Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.). “A [...]
• All those billions, blowing in the wind
  On February 1, an urgent alert was sent to supporters of wind energy. It stated: “The PTC is the primary [...]
• Nanny State Giving Out Free Cell Phones, Minutes To Welfare Recipients
  Did you know that the federal government is giving out free cell phones and free cell phone minutes to [...]
• Obama pushed Dodd-Frank because of God
  President Barack Obama has been taking lumps from Republicans for years over his support for Wall Street and health [...]
• California Destruction Continues
  The California Air Resources Board has determined that by 2025—thirteen years from now—15% of the cars on the road will [...]
• Rep. Paul: Speech Against Raising the Debt Ceiling Jan 18 2012
   
• NAACP Plantation Masters Play Race Card Again
  Rick Santorum must be “racist” because he thinks all people, regardless of ethnicity, should have the dignity of self [...]
• ECO-SCAM: Solyndra Wants To Pay HUGE Bonuses With Taxpayer Money!
  Taxpayer-Financed Solyndra Wants to Pay Six-Figure Employees HUGE Bonuses! DEMAND That Congress DIG DEEPER Into Obama’s “ECO-SCAM” NOW! The Washington Times [...]
• CA: Brown Seeks 7% California Spending Boost
  California Governor Jerry Brown proposed $92.6 billion in spending for the year starting in July, an increase of about 7 [...]
• Big Government cannot pay its bills. Again
  Since Barack Obama became president on Jan. 20, 2009, the federal government has not had a budget. It did [...]
• Smoke and Mirrors
  Like a sleight-of-hand-artist on a busy street with a briefcase that turns into a table, three walnuts shells [...]
• CA: Dream Act repeal effort under way
  Inland Empire opponents of the California Dream Act have taken charge of a grassroots effort to repeal the new [...]
• It’s the Freeloading, Stupid
  It seems so stupid the way that tin-pot dictators screw up their nations’ economies.  Don’t they get it that [...]
• Bachmann criticizes Obama’s student loan plan
  ST. PAUL, Minn. — Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann criticized a directive by President Barack Obama to ease student [...]
• Three Big Problems
  In a way, the Occupy Wall Street protesters are right.  Wall Street is the epicenter of our problems.  But [...]
• Equally Poorer
  As President Obama continues to base his reelection hopes on resentment toward the “1 percent” who are supposedly not [...]
• Social Security benefits to increase in 2012
  Seniors will receive a 3.6 percent Social Security cost-of-living increase next year, the first since 2009, signaling that consumer [...]
• Our Government Doesn’t Create Jobs, It Kills Them
  President Obama says government will have to build the nation out of the economic trough. “We’re the country that built the [...]
• The CA Dream Act has a problem
  California Gov. Jerry Brown signed the state’s Dream Act this weekend giving those illegal immigrants who apply to state colleges, [...]
• Nearly Half of U.S. Lives in Household Receiving Government Benefit
  Families were more dependent on government programs than ever last year. Nearly half, 48.5%, of the population lived in a household [...]
• Obama pushes DREAM Act, but says he needs Congress to do it
  President Obama on Wednesday reiterated his commitment to overhauling U.S. immigration laws, but said those who want him to do [...]