How Obama Can Empower The Courts To “Spread The Wealth”

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  October 30th at 11:36 AM  | 

Over at NRO, the indefatigable Andrew McCarthy looks at Obama’s statements about redistribution and posits that, as president, he could try to revive a Soviet-backed UN treaty previously endorsed by the Carter Administration: In 1966, with key help from the Soviet Union, the United Nations began promoting a monstrosity of a treaty known as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). It | Read More »

Robbing Peter To Pay Peter

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  October 29th at 05:52 PM  | 

So Charlie Rangel and other New York Democrats want a federal bailout for state and local governments: “Our hope is that the leadership of both parties will be able to confer and come back after the election, and see what we can do to provide assistance to our local and state governments, as we have been able to do for our banking and finance industry,” | Read More »