Congress is not wrong to fix state voting rights
Fox News opinions on the physical fortitude of Desaline Victor aside, we should be troubled by the multitude of polling problems reported in recent elections.
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State of the union
Column: Obama's non-union, right-to-work manufacturing model?
President Obama made a non-union, diesel power-train plant in right-to-work North Carolina the first stop in his post-State of the Union tour touting American manufacturing. Not surprisingly, the White House made no mention of these inconvenient facts. Indeed, the Canadian-owned Linamar facility outside of Asheville contradicts the entire industrial policy that Obama has made the … Continue Reading →
Why not a minimum wage of $300?
Is it really wrong that a person who works full-time at minimum wage earns almost $15,000 per year? The president might think so for his own personal reasons, but is it wrong from some well-founded philosophical sense?
Obama's focus on the family
A pity President Obama’s Sate of the Union address was on the economy – because he has compelling things to say on other matters like immigration and family. ”He doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” a friend and manager of a Detroit grocery said to me after a profoundly anti-business speech. Like many businessmen, he … Continue Reading →
Obama touts right-to-work NC manufacturing?
On his first post-State of the Union whistle stop, pro-union, anti-right-to-work President Obama came to Linamar Corporation outside Asheville, North Carolina. Somehow Obama’s advance team missed this: Linamar is a non-union shop in a right-to-work state. “I believe we attract new jobs to America by investing in new sources of energy and new infrastructure and … Continue Reading →
State of the Taxes
Maybe this State of the Union is bigger than we can handle. Most of us here in Michigan were actually watching basketball last night, and sneaking peeks into coverage of the fire-engulfed cabin in California. In fact, most of the people I talked to were more interested in paczki, friends, and family. So as President … Continue Reading →
State of warmed-over Obamanomics
President Obama’s State of the Union address was billed as an economic call to arms, but the economic portion was curiously flat, lacking inspiration. Only when he addressed social issues – immigration, women in the military, gun control – did his voice gain feeling. True to his activist roots, this is a president passionate about … Continue Reading →
Making bad matters worse
The election of a man that has a white mother and an African father to the presidency of the United States has made the hardhearted more hateful. The hatred seen now is so direct and open that robes and letters aren’t necessary. The opposition to the president and attorney general of the United States over the … Continue Reading →
Editorial: Obama SOTU recycles Granholm SOS
Governor Mitch Daniels’ stirring, pro-growth, small government rebuttal to President Obama’s class warfare, Big Government State of the Union speech surely left GOP primary voters praying that Daniels will reverse his decision not to run for president. But the Indiana governor is also a reminder of what is possible when voters choose leadership. Daniels’ gubernatorial … Continue Reading →