March, 2017

Sessions again threatens to defund sanctuary cities - Democrat Rep. says he’s ‘putting a gun to the

Yesterday, newly minted Attorney General Jeff Sessions re-iterated his threat to yank federal funding from so-called "sanctuary cities."

A Purgatory of a Transition

The period of transition of power from one leadership to another rarely limits to a few days following the elections and can be legally and morally limbo-like for the country.

Trump to sign order Tuesday reversing Obama climate policies

The good news, if you want to look at it that way, is that the left has suddenly decided there are limits on the executive authority of the president. Not the silly ones in the constitution, mind you. They have no use for those and never did, which is why they had no problem with any abuse of power by the lightbringer Obama.

How do we measure temperature? (video)

Ryan: Never mind that whole giving up thing; we’re still going to repeal ObamaCare

Maybe all the blowback to Friday's surrender press conference caused him to rethink whether Republicans can really just "move on to the rest of their agenda" and leave ObamaCare in place. Or maybe the whole thing was a rope-a-dope to put pressure on the dopes who saved ObamaCare in the first place.

Alabama congressman files two-page, one-sentence, ObamaCare repeal bill. Pass it, GOP cowards.

Sometimes, we wish you could see more of what goes on behind the scenes of Herman Cain HQ. We have a lot of laughs, a lot of interesting discussions, and a fair amount of non-PC fun. You'd enjoy it. Then, there are other times when we're glad you're not around. That's usually when we're bickering about legislation, and the concept of constitutionalism vs. "conservatism."

Quebec’s subsidized daycare imposes real costs on taxpayers, limits choice for parents

TORONTO--Quebec's subsidized daycare program has produced skyrocketing costs along with worrying child development outcomes without eliminating wait times, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.

Obama budget cuts left U .S. too weak to deal with multiple global menaces

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Constitution makes Donald Trump the commander-in-chief. But, the founding fathers assigned the responsibility of raising and maintaining a military to Congress.

Would a Carbon Tax Dividend Help Poor Households?

IER President Tom Pyle recently wrote an article for National Review's online magazine responding to George Schultz and Ted Halstead's own NRO piece making their case for a carbon tax.

What A Westinghouse Bankruptcy Could Mean For U.S. Utilities

International news services now report that Japan's Toshiba Corporation (9502.T) is preparing to make a chapter 11 bankruptcy filing for its Westinghouse Electric subsidiary as soon as this Monday, March 27. For most of our readers this news evokes little surprise. This is merely another chapter of a slow moving financial and accounting train wreck involving nuclear design and construction firm Westinghouse and its troubled Japanese parent, Toshiba. But like an old, leaky garbage scow there is much to clean up in its wake.

Congressman Ted Poe resigns from Freedom Caucus, which he helped create, over ObamaCare repeal fiasc

You can call me an unprincipled RINO if you want. Let's see if you say the same thing about Republican Congressman Ted Poe of Texas. He's one of the founding members of the House Freedom Caucus. He helped found it because he believed Republicans should push for conservative legislation wherever possible. I believe that too, for what it's worth.

Sessions: Shield Illegals, Lose $4 Billion

The Trump administration is moving forward with cutting off federal law enforcement grants to local governments that shield illegal aliens, especially violent felons, from federal immigration authorities, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said yesterday.

The tolerant Left assaults Trump supporters again

The tolerant Left assaulted Trump supporters again, this time in Huntington Beach, Calif. Around 2,000 Trump supporters gathered for a march to show their support for the president.

Trumping the State Department

President Trump’s budgetary assault on the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is long overdue. He is forcing a rethinking that will benefit America and the world.

Here’s the one surveillance crime we know someone committed

It’s not the one you’re hearing about. All the media attention is on the notion that Russians “hacked the election” or something. Or they’re telling us again that there’s “no evidence” Trump Tower was wiretapped, even though the investigation isn’t over yet and we can’t possibly know that.

Socialist Health Care Disguised as Tax

It appears that Obamacare is here to stay. Those doctors who grew up with the conditioning notion of utopian “social justice” love it. Those doctors who hate the government intrusion and regulation into their medical practice hate it. The American public is split as well along those lines.

Palestinian terrorist, ‘Women’s March’ organizer, stripped of U.S. Citizenship and deported

If you know the name Rasmea Yousef Odeh, you were probably following her involvement with the "Women's March" and "Day Without a Woman" movements. She among the leadership of both.

Joe Biden has regrets about not running for President - with good reason

I may not agree with his positions, I'm glad he's not President, and he may be an inveterate gaffe-machine but, unlike many Democrat lifer-politicians, Joe Biden isn't a bad person.

When it comes to achieving policy goals, Democrats are smart and Republicans are dumb

Democrats' policy ideas are terrible. They damage this country. They invariably expand the scope of the federal government and war against the productive sector. They make problems like poverty, crime and moral depravity worse. They promote corruption. They accrue debt.

That’s it? They’re just giving up?

After seven years of telling us they would repeal and replace ObamaCare at the first opportunity, the Republican House worked on it all of 63 days before apparently deciding it could not do so - despite a Republican majority in the Senate (however small) and a Republican president prepared to sign the bill.