Believing the U.S. unworthy of its superpower status, President Barack Obama hit the foreign policy “reset” button. Unfortunately, it reset us back to the Carter years and a weaker, less respected America around the world. In the last few weeks, in addition to the murder of our diplomats in Libya, there have been protests against the U.S. at more than 50 of our embassies and consulates | Read More »
In November 2008, Americans voted for Barack Obama because they thought he was the kind of leader who could bring Republicans and Democrats together and return America to battle-tested ideals that would stem our economic decline. Nearly four years later, it is clear America didn’t get that leader. This month, under President Obama’s leadership, the national debt broke the $16-trillion barrier, adding more than $5 | Read More »
I want to express my deepest condolences to the families of Ambassador Stevens and the three other American officials who were killed in Tuesday’s heinous terrorist attacks. And I want to thank all of them for their heroic service to our country. On Tuesday, Americans here and abroad commemorated the 11th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11th. At the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, | Read More »
Obamanomics, the name for “spreading the wealth around,” in reality only spreads poverty and economic decline. By any measure, President Obama’s economic policies have been a total disaster. There are millions of men and women seeking work who want to build a better future for their families. From communities large and small and businesses of all sizes, the work ethic of middle-income America is what | Read More »
What do chicken sandwiches and the First Amendment have in common? August 1, 2012. Wednesday marked a key date in the implementation of the freedom-offending ObamaCare. It’s when many organizations and employers were required to begin violating their consciences by providing services that end life rather than affirm it. Their alternative is to drop healthcare for their employees and pay the fine, or what the | Read More »
Barack Obama campaigned in 2008 on the promise that his administration would be transparent and that he would respect the Constitutional constraints on the executive branch. In an effort to drive that message home, his surrogates often reminded us that then-Senator Obama had been a Constitutional law instructor. Now in his fourth year in office, it is apparent that President Obama actually finds the Constitution | Read More »
The sound of explosions, the smell of gunpowder, and the bright splashes of color against the dark night sky were not always a cause for celebration as the fireworks we watch on this Fourth of July will be. Instead, to our early countrymen, these sensations came amidst a fight for our independence against an overbearing monarchy that restricted and ignored the freedoms of his people. | Read More »
Today, the Supreme Court tried to find a creative way to justify undermining freedom. Obamacare is offensive to freedom-loving people. Calling it a tax does not change that and should not allow it to pass the constitutional test. Chief Justice Roberts got it wrong. President Obama and his supporters combined bad policy, with bad process, to produce a bad result for the American people, and | Read More »
It has been said that this nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. Those brave men and women, our noble veterans, deserve our respect and support on all levels and at all times. I am the son of two Veterans Administration professionals and grew up on VA Grounds in the states of West | Read More »
Manufacturing is a tremendous part of our heritage as Americans and my heritage as a Pennsylvanian. Raised in Butler, the heart of both steel country and manufacturing, I witnessed the decline of the manufacturing industry and the accompanying impact on struggling communities. One of the contributing factors was the way that government headwinds made us uncompetitive against foreign competitors. Thirty years later, the manufacturing sector | Read More »
What type of future do I want for my children and future grandchildren? I do not wish for them a future with a financially unsustainable, cradle-to-grave dependency on the federal government. Rather, I wish for those I love so much a future where the federal government encourages and empowers success, personal responsibility, and financial independence. I also want a future where state governments, or the | Read More »
Of the many wounds to America’s economy over the past few years, the majority have been self-inflicted. But that unfortunate reality notwithstanding, you can’t seriously examine our long-term national economic and jobs outlook, particularly regarding manufacturing, without addressing the China question. I was tempted to say “the China threat,” and certainly that would be accurate on many levels. But in the vast intersection of the | Read More »
Two years ago, President Obama signed into law ObamaCare, his signature piece of legislation. As a direct result of that law’s unpopularity, Congressional Democrats suffered devastating defeats in the midterm election of 2010, losing more than sixty seats in the House. It would be an understatement to say the President’s healthcare overhaul law is merely “unpopular.” According to several recent polls, Americans still overwhelmingly oppose ObamaCare by a two-to-one | Read More »
Just when you thought Obamacare could get no worse, we learned this week that the fundamentally flawed and overreaching law will include a $1 abortion insurance payment surcharge. That’s right. Obamacare now demands that Americans will directly pay for ending the life of an unborn child. So no matter if you oppose abortion on conscience grounds, as I do — and as Christians, Orthodox Jews, | Read More »
Mitt Romney highlights his business experience in the private sector but tries to hide his economic record in the public sector. He was a failed one-term Governor of Massachusetts, and by any objective measure, he would receive an F for his faulty fiscal stewardship there. Indeed, his economic record would not put him in the ring as a featherweight — let alone a lightweight — in | Read More »
As President of the United States I would take an oath to defend the Constitution – the whole Constitution – and that includes the Second Amendment and the cherished “right of the people to keep and bear Arms.” Sadly, President Obama and his Administration have mocked, downplayed, and disregarded this right. When I take office, I will restore our gun rights – in full. I | Read More »
There a lot of folks who want to make sure that President Obama gets voted out of office. They are the same folks who want to see America vibrant again, with an economy that brings real prosperity to real people. Let me tell you why I am the candidate who can defeat Obama, and grow the economy. Mitt Romney is a creature of Wall Street | Read More »
I have traveled across this great country many times. I have met countless Americans looking for jobs–real jobs, doing real work. These Americans have lives to lead, families to feed, rent to pay, and gas tanks to fill. Their dreams are our dreams; their hopes are our hopes; their search for a better America is our search. And yet in Washington, blocking the American dream | Read More »
On Health Care, ObamaCare and RomneyCare Will Hurt Ohio Families By Rick Santorum Two years ago, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or as we all have come to know it – “ObamaCare.” ObamaCare is the trifecta of all that is wrong with this Administration: a massive tax bill, an unprecedented expansion of the federal government, and a combination of unaffordable entitlement programs that will burden the economy | Read More »
From the diaries. President Obama has an amazing ability to make Jimmy Carter’s foreign policies look good. Opposition to imperfect allies and support of radical Islamists has resulted in the almost-extinction of religious freedom for religious minorities – from the Copts in Egypt to the defenseless women and children who were slaughtered in Homs, Syria – in the Middle East. Another example is the devolving | Read More »
Promoted from the diaries. “The budget should be balanced; the treasury should be refilled; public debt should be reduced; and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.” - Cicero. 106-43 B.C. Our nation is in economic turmoil, and American families are focused on what matters the most: putting food on the table and keeping the lights on.With economic growth stagnating and over 13 million Americans | Read More »
President Obama’s State of the Union speech confirmed that flowing rhetoric can’t compensate for failed economic policies. In Florida, families are hurting and jobs are scarce with nearly 10 percent unemployment. In Washington, politicians have nearly doubled their spending over the past 10 years and they plan to burn through $3.7 trillion this fiscal year alone, spending around 40% more than we have. Through their | Read More »
President Obama’s flat-out rejection of the Keystone Pipeline is radical, irresponsible, and dumbfounding. Sadly though, It is yet another example of this President’s capitulation to the radical environmental fringe which puts our economy and national security at risk. Our nation needs to become energy independent and this pipeline would have been an important step in that direction. Instead of an estimated twenty thousand jobs going | Read More »
This election, the most important of our generation, is about ideas and core concepts about the role that government should play in individuals’ lives. The Liberal-Left has and will continue to expand the size and scope of the federal government, insisting that the government has the authority to dictate personal health decisions. There is very little that the modern liberal Democrat believes is off-limits for | Read More »
Iran’s President Ahmadinejad was selling tyranny on a tour of Latin America last week, visiting his strategic allies in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Ecuador. He’s wasn’t vacationing; he was talking about how to defeat the United States. Iran is organizing a Latin terror network, assembling weapons, including missiles that can hit us, exploring for uranium for its nuclear weapons program, and using Latin American banks, | Read More »
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