Browsing Month September, 2011
RICK PERRY::What CONSTITUTIONALISM Means – Ramesh Ponnuru – NRO
By MB Snow at September 27, 2011 | 10:11 pm
Soon after Texas governor Rick Perry announced his presidential campaign, a few websites, mostly liberal, compiled a list of the constitutional amendments he has at various times touted. He has spoken favorably about amendments to end the lifetime tenure of federal judges, to allow supermajorities of Congress to overturn Supreme Court decisions, to repeal the Sixteenth ... Go To Article
Commentary , Election 2012 , Featured , General , Rick Perry
TONY BLANKLEY: Obama’s Foreign Policy Failures Increase – RCP
By MB Snow at September 27, 2011 | 9:34 pm
President Obama, like most American presidents, is lucky that the public pays little attention to foreign policy and rarely casts its votes on the basis of presidential foreign-policy performance. It required something as dramatic as the November 1979 Iranian seizing of our diplomats as hostages, followed the next month by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to turn Jimmy ... Go To Article
DENNIS PRAGER::The Palestinians Want Peace — Just Not With a Jewish State
By MB Snow at September 27, 2011 | 9:20 pm
About five years ago, I was invited by the Hoover Institution to lecture at Stanford University over the course of a week. Coincidentally, Israel's Independence Day fell during that week, so I was invited to speak at the celebration held by pro-Israel students. In my talk, I noted that the crux of the problem in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was that most Palestinians ... Go To Article
RICK PERRY::Perry’s Wife Influenced Stance on HPV Vaccine – NYTimes.com
By MB Snow at September 27, 2011 | 6:37 pm
Four years after Gov. Rick Perry issued an executive order that would have made Texas the first state to require that sixth-grade girls be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted disease linked to cervical cancer, its genesis remains a mystery. Opponents, including Representative Michele Bachmann, suggest the governor was influenced by close ties to lobbyists for the ... Go To Article
Election 2012 , General , Health Care , News , Politics , Rick Perry
YOUR MONEY::Solar Decathlon powered by $11m in federal subsidies – WASH Ex
By MB Snow at September 27, 2011 | 6:22 pm
The U.S. Energy Department has spent $11 million over the past two years to allow 19 college teams to showcase energy-efficient homes this month near the National Mall. The federal government gives each competing team a $100,000 grant and spends the remaining $8 million planning and staffing the three-week-long Solar Decathlon, which is held once every two years, said ... Go To Article
PERRY urges Obama to block major EPA rule – The Hill
By MB Snow at September 27, 2011 | 5:39 pm
GOP White House hopeful Rick Perry is asking President Obama to scuttle new air pollution rules that require cuts in power plant emissions that blow across state lines and worsen smog and particulate pollution. The Texas governor, in a letter to Obama on Monday, takes aim at the Environmental Protection Agency’s recently finalized Cross-State Air Pollution ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Congress , General , News , Politics , Rick Perry
JOBS::Every Job Requires an Entrepreneur – WSJ.com
By MB Snow at September 27, 2011 | 5:27 pm
In his speech before a joint session of Congress on Sept. 8, President Obama said, "Ultimately, our recovery will be driven not by Washington, but by our businesses and our workers." He is right. We can spark an economic recovery by unleashing the job-creating power of business, especially small entrepreneurial businesses, which fuel economic and job growth quickly and ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Commentary , Congress , Economy , Election 2012 , Featured , General , Politics
ELECTION 2012::Barack Obama, Democratic Wrecking Ball « Commentary Magazine
By MB Snow at September 27, 2011 | 4:14 pm
Here’s yet more good news for Democrats. National Journal reports: One of the Democratic party’s leading pollsters [Stanley Greenberg] released a survey of 60 Republican-held battleground districts today, painting an ominous picture for congressional Democrats in 2012. The poll shows Democratic House candidates faring worse than they did in the 2010 midterms, being ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Commentary , Election 2012 , General , Politics , Religion
JONAH GOLDBERG: A bear of a problem for Obama – latimes.com
By MB Snow at September 27, 2011 | 4:10 pm
"You woke the bears! Why did you do that?" That's from one of my favorite scenes in "Anchorman." In the Oscar-robbed film, Ron Burgundy (played by Will Ferrell) loudly leaps into a bear pit to rescue his girlfriend and then falsely blames her for waking them up. Watching President Obama these days reminds me of that scene. In March 2010, liberal columnist Peter ... Go To Article
RICK PERRY’S Intriguing Idea for BI-NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE – Forbes
By MB Snow at September 27, 2011 | 4:01 pm
At the Fox News-Google Republican debate in Orlando last week, Rick Perry was—as usual—in the cross-hairs. Rick Santorum, the former Senator from Pennsylvania, had one of the most memorable lines of the evening. Said Santorum, “[Rick Perry] gave a speech in 2001 where he talked about bi-national health insurance between Mexico and Texas. I mean, I don’t even think ... Go To Article