End of Earmarks Affects Local Programs Large and Small
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 9th, 2011 5:31 am by HL
End of Earmarks Affects Local Programs Large and Small
On Health Care, Justice Will Prevail
Laurence Tribe, New York Times
THE lawsuits challenging the individual mandate in the health care law, including one in which a federal district judge last week called the law unconstitutional, will ultimately be resolved by the Supreme Court, and pundits are already making bets on how the justices will vote.But the predictions of a partisan 5-4 split rest on a misunderstanding of the court and the Constitution. The constitutionality of the health care law is not one of those novel, one-off issues, like the outcome of the 2000 presidential election, that have at times created the impression of Supreme Court justices as…
Obama’s Spending: The Abysmal Results
Rep. Darrell Issa, Financial Times
President Barack Obama's $814bn economic expansion has woefully failed to reach each of its self-imposed targets. The president's stimulus package promised (after adjusting for inflation) that gross domestic product in the fourth quarter of 2010 would be roughly $15,200bn. Yet the latest figures, released this month, fell short by some $400bn. Instead of being an important milestone for the global recovery, the data are just one further example of the failure of Mr Obama's Keynesian misadventure.
Why Are We Undermining Allies?
Thomas Sowell, Investor’s Business Daily
While everyone's attention seems to be focused on the crisis in Egypt, a bombshell revelation about the administration's foreign policy in Europe has largely gone unnoticed. The British newspaper The Telegraph has reported that part of the price which President Obama paid to get Russia to sign the START treaty, limiting nuclear arms, was revealing to the Russians the hitherto secret size of the British nuclear arsenal. This information came from the latest WikiLeaks documents. Receive news alertsTo betray vital military secrets of this country's oldest, most steadfast and most…
