On this Strictly Right, Andrew and Ari take a look at the racism of the Left, Obama’s libelling of the Tea Party, a great interview with David Limbaugh and much more. Follow @AndrewLawton and @AriMFine on Twitter for the latest updates. Subscribe on iTunes Listen online Strictly Right Radio – Episode 88
Tags: Barack Obama, David Limbaugh, Economics, Racism, Tea Party
From Human Events: Uncivil Unions By Ann Coulter As Obama rakes in historic campaign contributions from Wall Street money, liberals claim Republicans are beholden to “the rich.” However that may be, it is far more true, and far less remarked upon, that the Democratic Party is the party of public sector unions. And now, the [...]
Tags: Ann Coulter, Economics, Unions, Wisconsin
From today’s WSJ: Why Koch Industries Is Speaking Out Crony capitalism and bloated government prevent entrepreneurs from producing the products and services that make people’s lives better. By CHARLES G. KOCH Years of tremendous overspending by federal, state and local governments have brought us face-to-face with an economic crisis. Federal spending will total at least [...]
Tags: Economics, Koch Brothers
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 [...]
Tags: Economics, Unions, Wisconsin
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
From the Wall Street Journal: The Buck Doesn’t Stop Here President Obama is applying ‘a scalpel to the discretionary budget, rather than a machete.’ By STEPHEN MOORE We hear that the White House was caught off guard by the near-universal panning of President Obama’s budget proposal. So yesterday morning Mr. Obama was rushed in front [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Budget, Debt, Deficit, Economics, Spending
From the Wall Street Journal: The Cee Lo Green Budget The cynical and unrealistic White House budget. This was supposed to be the moment we were all waiting for. After three years of historic deficits that have added almost $4.5 trillion to the national debt, President Obama was finally going to get serious about fiscal [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Debt, Deficit, Economics
From today’s Wall Street Journal: Runaway Trains Obama’s high-speed rail plan is a fiscal pipedream. We suppose every President is entitled to a pipedream, but President Obama’s vow in his State of the Union address that 80% of Americans should have access to high-speed rail in 25 years is a doozy. Vice President Joe Biden [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Debt, Deficit, Economics