Jan 22 2010

A Look Behind the Scenes of Presidential Advance

Ever wonder how much effort goes into planning a President’s trip to, well, anywhere? So did we. Fortunately, the White House Presidential Advance team allowed us to invade their world for a couple weeks as they made arrangements for President Obama’s trip to Ohio later today.
 
This will be the second stop on the President’s “White [...]

Dec 14 2009

Seventy Six Percent reject the left’s ‘church and state’ myth

A new Rasmussen poll shows that the overwhelming majority of Americans (76%) support allowing religious symbols on public land. 83% think public schools should actively celebrate religious holidays.
As Robert Moon aptly notes at The Macon County Examiner, this flies in the face of everything we are told by radical left-wing groups like the ACLU about [...]

Sep 11 2009

As the Byrd Rule Flies: Why Dems Can’t Use Reconciliation to Pass Radical ObamaCare

…Unless they’re willing to immolate themselves in the process — and probably lose the fight anyway.
Everybody is now slinging around the term “reconciliation process,” but I think most of us don’t really understand what the heck that means — other than a sneaky way to pass ObamaCare without having to break a Republican filibuster. [...]

Jun 18 2009

He’s No Roosevelt

The Times’s Joe Nocera reviews the Obama administration’s financial regulatory overhaul: “[I]t’s not even close to what Roosevelt accomplished during the Great Depression.”
Meanwhile, Peter Hart and Bill McInturff’s polling shows that the president’s approval rating is below 60 percent.
And health-care reform is running up against hurdles in the Senate.
And flies are attacking the White [...]