Israel’s elections yesterday sent a mixed message. On the one hand the centrist Kadima party managed to squeak by with a narrow victory over the conservative Likud party by winning 28 seats to Likud’s 27 seats in Israel’s 120 seat parliament. On the other hand, the Israeli electorate shifted to the right, with the Likud-led nationalist camp increasing its strength to 65 seats from 50 and Kadima and left wing parties collectively falling to 55 seats from 70. This will make it difficult for Tzipi Livni, the Kadima leader, to …
In what has been an unusually and welcoming warm week in the District and with that comes the “What’s so bad about global warming?” or “I love global warming!” facetious remarks. The funny thing is these comments are made by both global warming alarmists and global warming skeptics. As most Foundry readers know, the science behind global warming is anything but certain; 650 dissenting scientists took their case to the United Nations global warming conference in Poznan, Poland last December. Cutting carbon unilaterally would have negligible environmental benefits, as would …
Remember when those on the left kept saying it would be the end of American democracy as we know it if the military had the authority to indefinitely detain suspected terrorists? Well now that President Barack Obama is in power his two top legal appointees have both affirmed President George Bush’s position on the matter. The Los Angeles Times reports: Harvard Law Dean Elena Kagan, President Obama’s choice to represent his administration before the Supreme Court, told a key Republican senator Tuesday that she believed the government could hold suspected …
“First of all, when I hear that from folks who presided over a doubling of the national debt, then, you know, I just want them to not engage in some revisionist history.” – President Barack Obama, February 9, 2009 President Barack Obama has recently begun denigrating Republican attempts to pare back the bloated “stimulus” bill by asserting that a party which oversaw a large increase in the national debt has no business lecturing anyone on fiscal responsibility. It is true that, between 2002 and 2009, the budgets largely shaped by …
As Members of Congress push their liberal agenda on America disguised as “stimulus”, it may surprise them that President Ronald Reagan saw this exact scenario unfolding, way back in 1961. His words are eerily prophetic. This ten minute address is worth a listen, if only to remember that the left has been pushing this agenda for almost fifty years. And they are about to have it handed to them on a silver platter. “…this program, I promise you will pass just as surely as the sun will come up tomorrow. …
L. Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center and nephew of the late National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr., visited Heritage last week to promote Buckley’s last book “The Reagan I Knew.” Published in October after Buckley’s death, the book documents the 30-year friendship with the late president. Bozell, humbled in his role as spokesman for the book, told the assembled group how more than 900 books have been written about President Ronald Reagan. He explained how Buckley was perhaps the former president’s closest friend. In Buckley’s last book, he gives …
Whatever agreement comes out of the House-Senate conference on President Barack Obama’s Trillion Dollar Debt Plan is completely irrelevant. Whatever spending that Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Olympia Snowe (R-ME), and Arlen Specter (R-PA) get taken out of the bill, will just get included in future legislation. Budget process expert Stan Collender explains: Even if the president doesn’t make a request for additional fiscal stimulus, there will a number of already scheduled opportunities for more stimulus to be enacted. I’m even willing to predict that more will be adopted in the …
From the beginning we’ve warned you that President Barack Obama’s Trillion Dollar Debt Plan will not stimulate the economy, but will instead permanently expand the size and power of the welfare state. There is perhaps no better example of this than the provisions in the bill which abolish the successful welfare reforms passed on a true bipartisan basis by President Bill Clinton in 1996. Heritage senior research fellow Robert Rector has the gory details: Under the old AFDC program, states were given more federal funds if their welfare caseloads were …
During his first press conference this Monday President Barack Obama said: Look, I would love not to have to spend money right now. This notion that somehow I came in here just ginned up to spend $800 billion, that wasn’t — that wasn’t how I envisioned my presidency beginning. Really? Then why is the only thing Obama is fighting for in the conference between the House and Senate versions of the stimulus bill is the new spending? The Wall Street Journal reports: The White House is seeking to restore funding …
Great story by the Washington Post today on the false choice President Barack Obama is trying to sell to the American people: President Obama likes to portray the battle over the economic stimulus package that passed the Senate on Tuesday as a stark choice between his approach and that of those who would “do nothing.” … But in truth, few of those involved in the stimulus debate are suggesting that the government should not take action to aid the cratering economy. Many of the president’s fiercest congressional critics support a …
