Aug 20, 2009 – Faced with rising opposition to his health care plan, Barack Obama has apparently turned to a higher power:In a morning conference … income to charity.  … Congressional Republicans tried to add this provision and DEMOCRATS VOTED IT DOWN.Bottom line, it is I and I alone who decide to be…

Aug 20, 2009 – Because first we've got to take back the White House, we've got to take back the Senate, and we've got to take back the House. … That’s what I’d like to see.” He made no distinction. Who are you going to believe, Obama or your lying eyes and  ears? … To bolster our confidence, he pointed to how well FedEx and UPS compete with the U.S. Postal Service.…

Aug 20, 2009 – In a resounding example of why we need to adopt more British idioms, Gerald Warner goes for the jugular in his assessment of Obama's … agenda.Obama has no interest in genuine health care reform: as a Senator he voted against all the moderate, achievable measures that … So far as he was concerned, the worse things got for 48 million uninsured Americans the better: it might persuade them to buy into…

Aug 20, 2009 – Novak's voice was mostly stilled after he was diagnosed with brain cancer in July 2008 -- he seemed to adhere to his longstanding practice … which threatens to increase the national debt from 40 percent of gross domestic product to a World War II level of 70 percent. … They seem to be pessimists, but pessimists who are determined to resist what looks like a nightmare.…

Aug 19, 2009 – to so solve problems. … Speaker Pelosi has voted for a similar exemption to aid New Mexico in the past, yet she stands in the way to provide relief for the … The most immediate action that you can take to get water to our farmers now is to pressure Speaker Nancy Pelosi to support legislation…

Aug 19, 2009 – The President’s community-organizer approach to governance is beginning to wear thin. … At this point, the President is compelled to come up with something to patch things up regarding the health care package in order to … He has to find a way to reconcile his rhetoric supporting marriage with his actions behind the scenes trying to repeal DOMA.…

Aug 19, 2009 – (Grassley voted for a similar provision in 2003 when his Republican-controlled Congress added drug coverage to Medicare.) … If they are incurred, someone has to pay them. … So it is not a leap to foresee government limiting health care, especially to people nearing the end of life.…

Sep 6, 2009 – Sestak is likely to be okay with helping Toomey at this stage because Sestak, first and foremost, wants to be able to have a chance … voters – and that could hurt him with the voting demographic he plans to help deliver to Specter. … Yet one thing to note is Toomey’s maturing as a candidate: He is edging to the center in his campaign, thanks to the Sestak-Specter…

Sep 5, 2009 – “We will make it clear that America is ready to lead.” The President and Al Gore are certainly ready to lead. … to fall between 1940 and 1975, then to stabilize and finally decline again 1998-2009. … Any call to curb carbon emissions would “condemn billions to continued poverty.…

Sep 4, 2009 – However, while the House Energy and Commerce Committee at first voted to exclude abortions from "essential" services, to the howls … Obama said in Mexico City he is determined to put our 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens on a "path to citizenship." … to life are going to be curtailed or cut off.…

Sep 3, 2009 – to stop it.) … What does it take for some to wake up? … He seeks to take the country -- over the growing resistance of even those who voted for him -- to an idealized world of government-guaranteed…

Sep 2, 2009 – Further, in 30 cases in which the citizens have been allowed to vote on marriage protection, they voted against gay marriage and marriage … to the ballot. … A simple way to explain why Full Faith and Credit should not apply to marriage is to share with people that Full Faith and Credit has…

Sep 2, 2009 – appoint someone temporarily to fill Kennedy's position. … If Massachusetts is added to that roster, the proportion bumps up to 28.7 percent. This is undemocratic and shouldn't continue." … From New York to Florida to Illinois to Delaware, voters are being represented in the Senate by an appointed official, not an elected…

Sep 1, 2009 – Returning to Disney World in August to celebrate my birthday with my family I noticed a marked change in the attire of many patrons … So what has caused the Obama juggernaut to stall out? … Could it be his constant need to apologize to other nations for the perceived misdeeds of his own country?…

Aug 30, 2009 – wanted the future to be different from what went before. … His promise of change was eloquent enough to motivate the left wing of his party but vague enough to make him acceptable to people … showering the economy with stimulus dollars to trying to overhaul health insurance.…

Aug 30, 2009 – There is no constitutional mechanism to do for California what the state of New York did for New York City in 1975 -- transfer to an … He favors a constitutional convention to reform the initiative process by forcing proponents of particular propositions to stipulate … ), inviting 150,000 to call in to an enormous conference call, and discussing issues for 90 minutes with the 20,000 who do.…

Sep 17, 2009 – Just like the Senate, the House of Representatives voted today to cut ACORN's access to federal housing funds.  … The House voted 345-75 to defund the organization that has been at the center of an explosive undercover sting investigation for the … past week.The Representatives listed below voted against the measure, meaning they  still support our tax dollars funding this corrupt…

Sep 17, 2009 – No one wants to fall in with racists, to heed racially motivated comments, or to be lumped in with their kind -- so, to President Carter's … spending, to racist motives solely because the sitting president is black. … No, the one who seems to forget that is none other than President Carter himself.…

Sep 17, 2009 – Some organizers emphasized that it was not their job to judge others. … On Monday, the Senate voted 83-7 for a measure by Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., to prohibit granting federal housing funds to ACORN. … Last year, ACORN was forced to acknowledge that election officials rejected 400,000 of the 1.3 million people the group had tried to…

Sep 17, 2009 – Yet opposition to same-sex marriage by black voters -- the very ones who voted for the President -- helped to strike down same-sex … Similarly, most Republicans who voted against the President in November 2008 support his decision to increase our troop commitment … But don't expect that number to get much lower.…

Sep 17, 2009 – People "wanted" to elect a black man president because of our history of slavery and the denial of civil rights for so many years to … It is never "racism" to vote for someone because he is black. … Using the formulation now being applied to President Obama that opposition to any of his policies -- from health care, to record amounts…

Sep 16, 2009 – closing its doors to new clients for now. … The Senate voted Monday to block the Housing and Urban Development Department from giving grants to ACORN, and the Census Bureau last … Gibbs said he assumed that federal agencies "constantly evaluate to ensure that any grantee is living up to what has to happen in order…

Sep 16, 2009 – An amendment Gregg introduced today would have ended the use of stimulus dollars to buy these "signs to nowhere," but instead met stiff … We have a long way to go to get jobs up and running, there's no question about it. … We don't have to put up a sign and tell them we're spending their money.'…

Sep 16, 2009 – So how should reporters have reacted to a Minneapolis surprise last month? … Facts: A convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in August voted to ordain as clergy noncelibate homosexuals … Of course you will have to believe in these things in order to grasp their ramifications.…

Sep 16, 2009 – activists posing as a pimp and prostitute who wanted to start a brothel. … On Monday, the US Senate voted overwhelmingly to block … in response to a report in The Post. … A spokesman for Cuomo said the attorney general would seek to make sure pork-barrel grants directed to ACORN by state lawmakers were…