From Newsweek: High Speed to Insolvency Why liberals love trains. By George Will Generations hence, when the river of time has worn this presidency’s importance to a small, smooth pebble in the stream of history, people will still marvel that its defining trait was a mania for high-speed rail projects. This disorder illuminates the progressive [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, George Will, Self-Reliance, Socialism
From the WSJ: Unions vs. the Right to Work Collective bargaining on a broad scale is more similar to an antitrust violation than to a civil liberty. By ROBERT BARRO How ironic that Wisconsin has become ground zero for the battle between taxpayers and public- employee labor unions. Wisconsin was the first state to allow [...]
For your necessary dose of pop culture, check the latest on Strictly Pop, a hilarious take on where Lindsay Lohan went wrong by Amelia Hamilton.
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Donald Rumsfeld pulls no punches. In this interview with Andrea Mitchell, Rummy sets the left straight on what actually happened in the Bush administration: Part 1: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Part 2: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Tags: Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, Iraq War, Mainstream Media, Media Bias, War on Terror
From the Washington Post: By George F. Will Hitherto, when this university town and seat of state government applauded itself as “the Athens of the Midwest,” the sobriquet suggested kinship with the cultural glories of ancient Greece. Now, however, Madison resembles contemporary Athens. This capital has been convulsed by government employees sowing disorder in order [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Economics, George Will, Scott Walker, Unions, Wisconsin
From National Review: Reckless Spending Barack Obama isn’t stupid. High-speed rail is. By Thomas Sowell Nothing more clearly illustrates the utter irresponsibility of Barack Obama than his advocacy of “high-speed rail.” The man is not stupid. He knows how to use words that will sound wonderful to people who do not bother to stop and [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Economics, Spending, Thomas Sowell
Ari and I will be interviewing author and columnist Michelle Malkin on Strictly Right Radio on Monday. Want to have your question read on air for Michelle, email it in to Andrew@StrictlyRight.com!
Tags: Andrew Lawton, Ari Fine, Michelle Malkin, Strictly Right, Strictly Right Radio
From the Wall Street Journal: By STEPHEN HAYES When President Obama spoke last month at the memorial service for victims of the shooting in Tucson, his speech called on Americans to live up to their ideals. He encouraged the nation to see the shooting through the eyes of 9-year-old Christina Taylor-Green, “who was just becoming [...]
Tags: Arizona Shooting, Barack Obama, Civility, Wisconsin
The best part about this is that Allen West is now a member of Congress:
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From today’s Wall Street Journal: By STEVEN MALANGAGovernment workers have taken to the streets in Madison, Wis., to battle a series of reforms proposed by Gov. Scott Walker that include allowing workers to opt out of paying dues to unions. Everywhere that this “opt out” idea has been proposed, unions have battled it vigorously because [...]
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