Obama’s debt speech just mailed in

By: Bob Weeks (Diary)  |  January 18th at 12:55 AM  | 

Remarks attributed to Barack Obama in 2006 regarding the debt ceiling were never spoken in the senate, but were mailed in, so to speak.

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Duration of unemployment isn’t improving

By: Bob Weeks (Diary)  |  October 12th at 12:29 AM  | 

Although the unemployment rate has declined, there are still problems in the labor market that don’t appear to be improving. The duration of unemployment is an example.

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Governor Romney is right: End the wind production tax credit

By: Bob Weeks (Diary)  |  August 29th at 08:08 PM  | 

U.S. Representative Mike Pompeo, a Republican who represents the Kansas fourth district, contributes the following article on the harm of government involvement in energy markets, wind power specifically. Pompeo has written extensively on energy; see Pompeo on energy tax simplification, Era of energy subsidies is over, and Free market energy solutions don’t jeopardize national security. He has also introduced legislation to end all tax credits | Read More »

Energy subsidies exposed

By: Bob Weeks (Diary)  |  August 20th at 01:55 PM  | 

On the campaign trail, President Barack Obama calls for an end to energy subsidies for the fossil fuel industry. It turns out, however, that this industry receives relatively little subsidy, while the president’s favored forms of energy investment — wind and solar — receive much more. Additionally, coal, oil, and gas industries paid billions in taxes to the federal government, while electricity produced by solar | Read More »

Pompeo: Impending tax increases threaten economic growth and jobs

By: Bob Weeks (Diary)  |  July 29th at 09:30 AM  | 

Following is an article from U.S. Representative Mike Pompeo. This week the House of Representatives will vote to stop the largest tax hike in American history, which, absent legislative action, is set to occur on January 1, 2013. I hope the Senate and President Obama will join us. Last week’s report of the economy growing at an anemic 1.5 percent is further evidence that tax | Read More »

Obama vs. the American Dream

By: Bob Weeks (Diary)  |  March 6th at 01:17 AM  | 

By U.S. Representative Tim Huelskamp, who represents the Kansas first district. Do politics reflect culture, or does culture reflect politics? In a representative form of government, what happens in Washington should be a reflection of what happens in each of the communities and among the people of our country. Those elected to serve are to carry to Washington the views, ideas, and priorities of their | Read More »

Obama fundraising on anti-Koch obsession

By: Bob Weeks (Diary)  |  February 25th at 12:41 PM  | 

Are Americans tired of hearing that this year’s election is all about an obsession with defeating President Barack Obama? For those who know that Obama took a bad economic situation and implemented policies that made it worse — yes, we want to defeat the current president. The president’s election campaign, however, turns that concern for the future of our country into “obsession” and uses it | Read More »

The Democrats continue unjustified attacks on taxpayers and job creators

By: Bob Weeks (Diary)  |  February 7th at 12:23 AM  | 

The following article by U.S. Representative Mike Pompeo, a Republican who represents the Kansas fourth district, including the Wichita metropolitan area, explains — yet again — how ridiculous it is for President Barack Obama and others to attack Wichita-based Koch Industries on the Keystone XL pipeline issue. Pompeo explains that Koch has no financial interest in the pipeline, what “intervenor” status means, and who really | Read More »

Obama’s executive orders

By: Bob Weeks (Diary)  |  October 31st at 10:56 PM  | 

Americans for Limited Government has commented on President Barack Obama’s recent use of executive orders to step around the will of Congress: “These unilateral executive orders, whether on government-backed student loans and mortgages or FDA oversight, are intended to sidestep the consent of the governed, and as a result they overstep the President’s constitutional boundaries. Obama can rhetorically dress this up however he likes, but | Read More »

Kerpen on Obama’s regulatory extremism

By: Bob Weeks (Diary)  |  October 23rd at 11:37 AM  | 

In the introduction to his book Democracy Denied, Phil Kerpen gives us a history lesson on a topic that doesn’t receive much discussion in public: the grab for executive power by presidents through the use of “signing statements.” Elizabeth Drew made the case against Bush’s abuse of executive power in a lengthy New York Review of Books piece called “Power Grab.” She specifically highlighted Bush’s | Read More »