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Barack, we’d like you to meet Lyndon and Dick.
No president can be president without the trust of the American people. Just ask Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.
“Just where in the world are these angels?”
With as much power over our lives as is now vested in the federal government, the virtue of its leaders and functionaries becomes a concern of much greater magnitude.
The bathroom door.
Does it matter, if you’re doing nothing wrong, that the government is collecting your emails, your Tweets, your Facebook posts and monitoring you web browsing?
Power: dispersed or concentrated? (Big difference.)
Get a letter from GEICO and you most likely throw it away. But get a letter from the IRS and the room spins.
Texas: Good for Illinois.
Republican Texas governor Rick Perry is good for Illinois despite what Democratic Senator Dick Durbin might think.
The fourth branch.
The fourth branch of government consists of about 50 federal agencies under various cabinet-level departments that have over time accumulated astonishing autonomy to write and enforce rules and regulations.
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Prev NextA nation of infants.
Forget the esoterica of the constitutional arguments. Forget that Congress has arrogated to itself power over your life on a scale never before seen. The real problem with Obamacare is that upwards of four out of ten in the United States believe that entitlement on such a scale is even possible.
Obamacare turns two.
Obamacare's second birthday is coming and going today almost totally uncelebrated. Proud father Barack Obama had everybody over to the house on the day his namesake was born. But today he, and Obamacare's mother, Nancy Pelosi aren't saying a word.
Lessons from the loo.
Try to imagine the bureaucratic gridlock of a city of fewer than 100,000 trying to procure toilet paper for a few city buildings scaled up to say, the size of the bureaucracy of an entire country trying to procure health care for 310 million citizens.
Why you may be frustrated.
If you're frustrated or scared I think I know why. Not only is nothing being done about our problems, little of use is even being said.
If only Rush had said…
posted on: Mar 4, 2012 | author: Paul Gleiser
By his ham-handedness, Rush Limbaugh turned the event of a college student's testimony before Congress into a wasted opportunity to expose the folly of limitless entitlement.
At least the Brits admit there’s a problem.
posted on: Mar 1, 2012 | author: Paul Gleiser
There's no money left in the U.K. and there's no money left here. The only difference is that the coalition government is admitting as much in Britain while politicians on both sides of the aisle here in the U.S. talk of our dismal finances only in oblique terms.
The school lunch police nab a four year-old.
posted on: Feb 23, 2012 | author: Paul Gleiser
If we here in the land of the free have arrived at the place where bureaucrats are being hired by the state to pull snap inspections on the sack lunches of pre-school children, we're not nearly as free as we'd like to think.
The word “free” explains everything.
posted on: Feb 16, 2012 | author: Paul Gleiser
It finally has become clear to me that I have insufficiently appreciated what is actually motivating those that argue in favor of mandated health plan coverage of contraceptives. The word "free" explains it all.
I’m now Catholic. (So are you.)
posted on: Feb 9, 2012 | author: Paul Gleiser
As a result of the arrogance of an administration that believes that there is no aspect of American life into which it does not have the unlimited right to intrude, we are all Catholics now.
Spring training.
posted on: Feb 3, 2012 | author: Paul Gleiser
The fight between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich has gotten nasty and many Republicans are worried about it. Not me.
Nothing to run on.
posted on: Jan 26, 2012 | author: Paul Gleiser
If you were a true Obama believer during the 2008 campaign, the State of the Union address Tuesday had to have rung hollow when listened to against the backdrop of three years of actual experience under an Obama administration.
Romney’s rock and hard place.
posted on: Jan 19, 2012 | author: Paul Gleiser
Romney has already disclosed that his effective tax rate is about 15 percent, well below the rate that most middle class taxpayers pay. On the strength of that disclosure, the demagoguery is on, little of it having any connection to facts.
Following Europe’s dangerous path.
posted on: Jan 12, 2012 | author: Paul Gleiser
Self-reliance means possessing and maintaining the ability to defend one’s self, something of which Europe is now utterly incapable. The president's proposal to dramatically cut defense spending reveals disturbing parallels for the U.S.
Some questions about money for the president.
posted on: Jan 5, 2012 | author: Paul Gleiser
President Obama made a rare appearance at the Pentagon to announce a plan to make deep cuts in the Defense Department budget. One must ask, what about the rest of the government?
Basic economics and the school cafeteria.
posted on: Dec 22, 2011 | author: Paul Gleiser
Hard as it is to believe, vegetable curry, lentil and brown rice cutlets and black-eyed pea salads aren’t big hits in the school cafeteria.
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The station was owned by broadcasting pioneer Gordon McLendon. McLendon was known for his sharply-written editorials. Those editorials were, however, a one-way street. There was no practical way for the listener to respond.
But that is no longer the case. With the the advent of the Internet, lectures have turned into dialogues.
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That's why we call it You Tell Me.
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