President Barack Obama tried to make the argument today that he’s the real small-government leader, not Reagan and other Republicans. “After there was a recession under Ronald Reagan, government employment went way up,” Obama said at a college in Albany, N.Y. “It went up after the recessions under the first George Bush and the second [...]
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A senior Obama administration official defended the efficacy of “class warfare” on his personal blog Monday by quoting the political philosopher and communist theorist Karl Marx. Rick Bookstaber, who currently serves on the Financial Stability Oversight Council, the federal body established under the Dodd-Frank Act to “ensure the stability of our nation’s financial system,” took issue with [...]
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The French have now elected a socialist government. This event should be instructive to us. France currently has a government that absorbs more than 50 percent of its economy. They have a cradle-to-grave employment system, where once you have a job it is virtually impossible to lose it no matter your level of performance. The [...]
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Team Obama calculates that its road to victory is paved with the votes of women, so the American people are now subject to a coordinated effort to cast GOP opposition to expanding government power as an assault on the weaker sex. But few women view public policy as a battle between the sexes. Women whose [...]
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How bad is the post-bubble economy? The economy is so bad that even con artists are giving up on real-estate scams, Tom Perez, a top Justice Department official, told an audience of progressives on Friday. “Equity stripping is largely a thing of the past because there’s no equity to strip,” said Perez. “Equity stripping” is [...]
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President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will kick off the general election season Saturday with large rallies in two critical battlegrounds, Ohio and Virginia, intended to showcase the technological firepower of his re-election campaign. As he has been doing at fundraisers and other public appearances in recent weeks, Obama is expected to draw a [...]
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Economists are rightly starting to warn that the United States faces a worrisome “fiscal cliff” at year’s end. The blunt spending cuts mandated by the 2011 compromise on the debt ceiling — and the failure of the “supercommittee” that followed — along with across-the-board tax increases would derail the U.S. recovery and undermine the well-being [...]
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A funny thing happened upon release of the monthly unemployment statistics today. A few journalists in the mainstream media began to wake up. While there are still plenty of headlines floating around today that are some variation on “Unemployment Down Despite Lack of Jobs, Obama Yay,” a few journalists appear to have noticed the oxymoron [...]
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The Obama administration is evidently “willing to sacrifice” Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng to facilitate unimpeded trade talks with Beijing, a human rights activist charged Thursday. The administration’s “true values” were emerging in its handling of the case, said Reggie Littlejohn, founder and president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers – a group that campaigns against China’s [...]
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OSU’s Urban Meyer, Aaron Craft participate on National Day of Prayer At the call of a woman dressed in white, dozens of people knelt and bowed their heads yesterday on the stone tiles that pave the west side of the Statehouse Downtown. “All that can and all that will, let’s kneel before the Lord our [...]
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Whether Barack Obama should run a populist campaign or not hinges on two questions. The first is fairly obvious: Can he win that way? But there’s a more important question that should decide Obama’s rhetorical approach, one that looks beyond just November: What kind of party do the Democrats want to be? There are both [...]
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Five anarchist occupiers were arrested yesterday for attempting to blow up a bridge in Ohio. According to an affidavit unsealed on Tuesday, five Cleveland men—at least three whom are self-described anarchists—were recently arrested for plotting to blow up a bridge as part of the May Day protests, according to the Daily Mail. A member of [...]
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U.S. growth in the first quarter fell to 2.2 percent, a disappointment. But in Europe, that news would have caused general rejoicing. For consider the gathering crisis on the old continent. With negative growth now for six months, Britain has fallen back into recession. “I don’t think we’re anywhere near halfway through the eurozone crisis,” [...]
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The new USC study pointing to a much-slower rate of population growth in California has been greeted by demographers and urban planners as good news, in that it supposedly gives our state’s leaders a little breathing room to better plan for the future. The rate of growth has slowed to about 1 percent a year, [...]
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Something creepy is happening in Minnesota. A dialogue has begun between the Tea Party and Occupy movements. Stranger still, it may be leading somewhere. Facilitating the discussion is an organization called the Caux Round Table. Global Executive Director Steve Young seems hell-bent on bridging the divide between the two movements. Young is the author of [...]
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