Want a Real Anti-Poverty Plan? Stop Amnesty!
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 31st, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Want a Real Anti-Poverty Plan? Stop Amnesty!
Michelle Malkin, RealClearPolitics
It is now all the fashionable rage in Washington, D.C., to proclaim solidarity with America’s working poor in front of the cameras — while stabbing them in the back behind closed doors. Privileged Illinois Democratic Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky and others have taken to Twitter, posting photos of themselves eating tuna sandwiches and buying Ramen noodles to show how much they empathize with minimum-wage workers. On the other side of the aisle, GOP Rep. Paul Ryan has wrapped himself in a cloak of compassion, putting a cheesy Taylor Swift hand heart around conservatism by proposing government…
Officials: New Sanctions on Russia May Have Global Cost
Alexis Simendinger, RealClearPolitics
After a wave of U.S. economic sanctions hit Russia more than a week ago, President Putin protested to President Obama during a tense phone call, and casually mentioned that a plane had crashed in Ukraine. Nearly 300 civilians perished, and none apparently had imagined they were flying over a combat zone in Ukraine. In response to those deaths, blamed indirectly on the Kremlin, Europe and the United States banded together Tuesday to impose tougher, coordinated economic sanctions, hoping that President Putin will reverse course. Senior administration officials, speaking to reporters Tuesday…
Probe Exposes Flaws Behind Health Care Site Launch
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, RealClearPolitics
WASHINGTON (AP) — Management failures by the Obama administration set the stage for computer woes that paralyzed the president’s new health care program last fall, nonpartisan investigators said in a report released Wednesday. While the administration was publicly assuring consumers that they would soon have seamless online access to health insurance, a chaotic procurement process was about to deliver a stumbling start. After a months-long investigation, the Government Accountability Office found that the administration lacked “effective planning or oversight practices” for the development…
New Russia Sanctions; Dems’ Sunbelt Forays; Florida and Marijuana; Independence Day
Carl M. Cannon, RealClearPolitics
Good morning. It’s Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Today is the birthday of two men who chronicled the United States in different centuries using different mediums: Alexis de Tocqueville (1805) and Ken Burns (1953). It is also the birthday of numerous notable American women who used their gifts and careers to entertain, enlighten, and transform. Let’s start with two great film actresses, Theda Bara and Clara Bow. The characters they played wouldn’t have had to worry about a certain ESPN commentator’s assertion that women provoke their abusers verbally — they starred in silent…
