Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has failed us again. Her hostility to allowing pilots to be armed against terrorists is going to make our nation less safe. On Monday, Napolitano’s vision for a “risk based” security system failed to keep a box cutter off a commercial aircraft in Houston. Secretary Napolitano said recently at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing that she is proposing a 50% cut | Read More »
President Barack Obama is known as a great orator. One would think that this skill would serve him well during the State of the Union tomorrow, yet his public speaking is fast becoming his biggest liability. It is because the American people look at many of his biggest promises skeptically. The AP reports in a story titled, “At Obama’s Midpoint, an Altered State of the Union” that the President has a record of promises | Read More »
I have written an Op Ed for Human Events titled the “Do-Nothing-Good-Congress.” A Human Events commenter made an excellent point. square root writes: Truman’s “do-nothing” Congress was the sole Republican Congress from 1928 to 1953. All Republicans could do in that ONE term, was stand against Truman’s liberal agenda and hold firm for the people they were sent to serve. Republicans had the numbers to | Read More »
The biggest earmark in American history has been doled out to a company in Illinois, the President’s home state, in the name of green jobs. The President’s $862 billion Stimulus plan has been an abysmal failure. It provided states and localities with billions in bailout moneys, funded wasteful projects like the Monkey cocaine study at Wake Forest and given false hope to Americans that the President has | Read More »
The President will address the nation from the Oval Office this evening. Like many of the President’s actions during the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, this speech may be a day late and a dollar short. President Obama will have to explain why he has not taken responsibility for his slow and distracted response to the crisis and avoid his natural urge to blame to others for | Read More »
As a candidate for President, Senator Barack Obama told NPR that “he might use signing statements to clarify his position on an ambiguous law, he would not abuse signing statements to undermine the will of Congress.” President Obama yesterday used a signing statement on “dozens of provisions in a $410 billion government spending bill” recently passed by Congress. Undoing many provisions of the Omnibus spending | Read More »
The reviews are in on President Obama’s Address to Congress and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s GOP Response. The New York Times calls Obama’s speech “Reaganesque exhortation to American resilience” and the consensus among my circle of friends is that Gov. Jindal did not do a great job of delivering his speech. I think we have bipartisan consensus that President Obama’s delivery was better than Governor Jindal. After | Read More »
The House passed stimulus bill has a provision that will provide stimulus to criminals. No joke. On page 52 of the House Stimulus Bill, “$3,000,000,000, to be available for the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program.” The same provision is in the Senate bill, but for only $1.5 billion on page 42. These monies are dispensed by the Bureau of Justice Assistance at the Department of | Read More »
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