Five years ago, I wrote a piece critical of the Obama administration’s takeover of the student loan program. It was a bad idea then, and a disaster today.
In a sweeping move to cut commercial banks out of the federal loan market, Congress voted to establish still another bureaucracy, ending the 45-year old bank-based program.… read more
When I read the Wall Street Journal’s Aug. 2, commentary, “States Should Shun the EPA’s New Power Mandate,” a report on the Clean Power Plan, I was reminded of the years of letters to the editor and opinion pieces in my Michigan hometown newspaper, mostly by those opposing coal-generated energy. They had bought into the health and climate change scare tactics of environmentalists and the Obama administration.
The much-maligned James De Young coal-fired power plant in Holland, Michigan. The NAACP called it an “environmental justice offender. (Mark Copier photo)
In 2012, a spokesman for Green America signaled the proposed EPA rules as “good news.” Citing questionable statistics that coal-fired plants were the cause of four out of the five leading causes of mortality in the U.S., he said the carbon emissions were responsible for billions of dollars in health care costs.
Advocates have said the move to renewable energy was going to create thousands of new Michigan jobs and reduce pollution “without significantly increasing energy prices.” Where have I heard this before? Continue reading
“I’m certainly aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material.” – Hillary Clinton
If Hillary Clinton neither sent nor received classified information, just how did she carry out the normal day to day business of a secretary of state?
Even her daily itinerary should have been classified. Friendly and unfriendly countries alike want to know who she’s meeting with and where.… read more
I found it interesting to read the editorial, “Obama’s Lawless Labor Board,” in today’s Wall Street Journal.
First, because it points once again to the culture of corruption in the Obama administration. The editorial describes how a federal appeals court struck down a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling because its acting general counsel was in the job illegally.… read more
Scott Walker’s comment on the wealth of counties around the nation’s capital hardly reported. (slate.com)
While making his point that Hillary Clinton believes she can grow the economy by growing Washington, Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker cited that six of the top ten wealthiest counties are around the nation’s capital. He was referring to the median income of those working in the nation’s capital.
It’s unfortunate the remark was meaningless to the average viewer, and we can thank our low information media for ignoring the statement. He’s made the point several times during his campaign; part of his plan to reduce the size of government. Continue reading
“Trusting someone to fight for them and trusting someone, these are two different things.” -CNN’s Briana Keilar
On Aug. 1, I wrote how I believed Hillary Clinton had reached the level of incompetence defined by Laurence J. Peter in his 1968 book, The Peter Principle.
I am beginning to see signs of her popularity shrinking, but I can’t see how she won’t be nominated to represent the Democrat party in 2016. But it’s not going to help her with Independents and Republican women.
CNN’s Briana Keilar asked Hillary about the trust issue during an otherwise session of softball questions. (ccnpressroom)
It began with the visible signs of arrogance. Her refusal to hold meetings with the press; only sitting for interviews with friendly members. Her continued insistence that she did no wrong by destroying e-mails, classified or otherwise. Her belief that she is listening to the voices of the middle class in those round table meetings with a handful of supporters. Her “entitled” projection as someone to whom rules of law and conduct don’t apply.
Her arrogance came through in the interview she did with CNN’s Briana Keilar on July 7, when, for the most part, she was fed softball questions. The atmosphere changed, however, when Keilar said, “We see by our recent poll that nearly six in 10 Americans say they don’t believe that you’re honest and trustworthy. Do you understand why they feel that way?” Continue reading
I was delighted that two of the presidential candidates who I support did extremely well in the first Republican debates – Carly Fiorina in the early session and John Kasich in the prime time session.
Once an unknown, Ohio Governor John Kasich came out of the first Republican debate with high marks. (business insider)
Regular readers will recall that I went out on a limb on May 30, naming Ohio Governor John Kasich for president in 2016, nearly two months before he made it official.
For someone who captured the tenth spot on the evening stage, Kasich appears from all that’s being said was either the winner or he finished in the top three.
Fiorina, from all reports, was the clear winner in the first session. Continue reading
“The painful fact is that Barack Obama is the president that Nixon always wanted to be,” – Jonathan Turley, constitutional law expert
While perusing the daily newspaper this morning, my attention was drawn to the This Day in History column featuring President Richard Nixon’s Aug. 8, 1974 resignation.
Forty-one years ago, President Nixon resigned the presidency. (ahharsfnewws.com)
Over the years I have often considered Nixon’s transgressions to be foolish and clumsy to say the least, but it led to his impeachment and key members of his administration went to jail.
Hardly a day goes by, however, that I don’t see the actions of President Obama equally or more egregious than those of Nixon. But when you look back to the 1970s, reporters Woodward and Bernstein had the backing of their powerful newspaper, The Washington Post, to uncover the deeds of Nixon and his men.
You can ask, where the Woodward’s and Bernstein’s are today, but you soon come to your senses and realize that Nixon openly scorned the media and President Obama owns the media. Today, The Washington Post might tweak the Obama administration by giving the president or Hillary Clinton four Pinocchio’s. Continue reading
Acting more like the commander-in-cheap, the president compared Republicans to Iranian hard-liners in his speech at the American University. (jonathanernst/reuters)
The president continues to say that the only alternative to his nuclear deal with Iran is war, and used a ridiculous analogy in making his case that Republicans want to go to war with Iran.
“Many of the same people who argued for the war in Iraq are now making the case against the Iran nuclear deal,” he told an American University audience yesterday. Need he be reminded that 29 Democrat Senators, including Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, were among those voting in favor of the Iraq resolution?
Acting more like the commander-in-cheap, he likened the Republicans to the hard-liners in Iran saying, “It’s those hard-liners chanting ‘Death to America’ who have been most opposed to the deal. They’re making common cause with the Republican caucus.” How insulting! How unstatesman like. Someone failed to tell him that they’ve already selected a new host for The Daily Show. Continue reading
“The Clean Power Plan will drive significant new investment in cleaner more modern and more efficient technologies, creating tens of thousands of jobs.” – President Obama
Just how stupid does the president think we are? His $800 billion stimulus was supposed to “save or create more than 3.5 million jobs,” but 1.5 million jobs were lost in the two years following the stimulus enactment. He later had to admit that “shovel-ready was not as shovel-ready as we expected.”
I wonder if the people protesting in Washington DC for more green jobs were aware that the EPA would be hiring some 800 people to serve as regulators, who will be killing jobs across the country. (21stcenturyapprecticeshiiopworkforce3one.org)
The $20 billion in green technology funding was supposed “to create the jobs of the future,” but those “efforts to stimulate creation of green jobs have largely failed,” reported the New York Times. A $500 million Labor Department program to train workers for green jobs was designed to place 80,000 workers in energy efficiency or renewable energy careers, but reportedly just 8,000 found work in the two years following the program start. Continue reading