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• Morning Bell: Surviving the Obama Assault on the Rule of Law

  Posted July 29th, 2010 at 9:30am in Protect America, Rule of Law with 49 comments

  Hours after yesterday’s decision by President Bill Clinton judicial appointee Susan Bolton to preemptively stop enforcement of Arizona’s immigration enforcement law, Thomas A. Saenz, president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), told The New York Times: “This is a warning to any other jurisdiction.” Just in case the message from the [...] More

• Morning Bell: Let’s Not Make a Deal

  Posted July 27th, 2010 at 9:22am in American Leadership, Protect America with 30 comments

  At the height of the debate over Obamacare, when the White House’s leftist allies were in full panic mode, The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein accused Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) of being “willing to cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.” Lieberman’s crime? He opposed including an expansion of Medicare in the health regulation [...] More

• Morning Bell: An Admission of Failure

  Posted July 26th, 2010 at 9:30am in Entitlements with 76 comments

  It is established practice in Washington that if you have to release bad news, it is best to do it on a Friday … the later in the day the better. So not only did the White House schedule the publication of the “Mid-Session Budget Review” for last Friday, but they then released it three [...] More

• Morning Bell: The Obama Tax Tsunami is Here

  Posted July 22nd, 2010 at 9:23am in Entitlements with 65 comments

  The American people are already well aware of President Barack Obama’s historic expansion of government spending: his $862 billion economic stimulus that has completely failed to keep unemployment below 8% as promised; his still-expanding health care law which the Congressional Budget Office now admits will cost more than $1 trillion; and an Obama budget that [...] More

• Morning Bell: The Special Relationship Beyond BP

  Posted July 21st, 2010 at 9:41am in American Leadership with 15 comments

  British Prime Minister David Cameron visited the White House for the first time as Prime Minister yesterday. At a time when the United States is engaged in a war in Afghanistan, when Iran is on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons, and while the world economy is teetering through a weak recovery, one would [...] More

• Morning Bell: White House Admits Obamacare’s Individual Mandate is a Tax

  Posted July 20th, 2010 at 8:56am in Health Care with 68 comments

  Throughout his presidential campaign, then-candidate Barack Obama promised the American people: “If you’re a family that’s making $250,000 a year or less, you will see no increase in your taxes.” After he became President, Barack Obama reiterated that pledge, promising the American people in his September 9th health care press conference: “The middle-class will realize [...] More

• Morning Bell: What’s Attorney General Holder Hiding?

  Posted July 19th, 2010 at 9:38am in Ongoing Priorities, Rule of Law with 80 comments

  Imagine arriving at your neighborhood polling place on Election Day and seeing two men guarding the entrance, dressed in paramilitary uniforms, wielding a deadly billy club, shouting racial epithets and menacing voters. Would you walk through the door? Now imagine political appointees in the Department of Justice (DOJ) refusing to pursue the case, the U.S. [...] More

• Morning Bell: The Lawyers and Lobbyists Full Employment Act

  Posted July 16th, 2010 at 9:21am in Enterprise and Free Markets with 49 comments

  Without spending a single dime, the Obama administration did more yesterday to create jobs for the U.S. economy than it has throughout its entire existence. With the single stroke of a pen, President Barack Obama signed the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill that set in motion 243 new formal rule-makings by 11 different federal agencies. Each [...] More

• Morning Bell: Why the Obama Stimulus Failed

  Posted July 15th, 2010 at 9:18am in Energy and Environment, Enterprise and Free Markets with 69 comments

  Today, President Barack Obama will attend a groundbreaking ceremony in Holland, Mich., for a South Korean-owned factory that will make batteries for electric cars. The purpose of the trip is to highlight the “success” of the President’s $862 billion economic stimulus package which the White House claimed yesterday has already “saved or created” 3 million [...] More

• Morning Bell: Cap and Ban

  Posted July 14th, 2010 at 9:22am in Energy and Environment with 56 comments

  The front page of USA Today claims: “President Obama’s attempt to use the Gulf of Mexico oil spill to help propel comprehensive energy legislation has failed.” Don’t believe it for a second. On Monday the Obama administration reissued a ban on offshore oil drilling in the gulf after federal courts twice invalidated the first ban, [...] More

• Morning Bell: The Obama Tax and Spend Threat to Economic Recovery

  Posted July 13th, 2010 at 9:07am in Entitlements with 40 comments

  Remember President Barack Obama’s promise to the American people not to raise taxes? Forget about it. While the President has already raised taxes on cigarettes and tanning beds, none of that compares to what could happen in January. If you earn income, your taxes are about to go up. If Congress does not act to [...] More

• Morning Bell: Anti-Business Obama

  Posted July 9th, 2010 at 8:40am in Enterprise and Free Markets with 70 comments

  It looks like the Obama spin machine is at it again, this time launching a concerted effort to rebut reports this week that President Barack Obama is anti-business. But given Obama’s record of stoking government intervention in the private sector and creating an environment of uncertainty poisonous to business growth, hiring and expansion, it’s no [...] More

• Morning Bell: Federal Government Overpaid $47 Billion a Year

  Posted July 8th, 2010 at 9:26am in Enterprise and Free Markets with 68 comments

  Today, the White House is launching its second annual SAVE Award, which encourages federal employees to submit ideas on how to save taxpayer dollars. Federal employees will be able to rank the submissions submitted by colleagues, and then the general public will be able to vote on the top submissions later this year. Last year’s [...] More

• Morning Bell: The Rationer-in-Chief

  Posted July 7th, 2010 at 9:29am in Health Care with 66 comments

  When Linda O’Boyle was diagnosed with bowel cancer, her doctors told her she could boost her chances of survival by adding the drug cetuximab to her regimen. But the rationing body for Britain’s National Health Service, the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), had previously ruled that the drug was not cost-effective and [...] More

• Morning Bell: Remember the Gulf

  Posted July 6th, 2010 at 8:04am in Energy and Environment, Enterprise and Free Markets, Protect America with 90 comments

  Remember 9/11. Remember Katrina. Remember Haiti. Often, after a disaster of epic proportions, we are urged to remember the victims and the lessons of how to avoid a similar catastrophe. These reminders are necessary because after the moment of impact passes, people’s attention is drawn to other major events. Rarely ever, however, is the phrase used [...] More

• Morning Bell: Recovery Summer Vacation

  Posted July 2nd, 2010 at 9:36am in Energy and Environment, Enterprise and Free Markets with 36 comments

  On June 17, Vice President Joe Biden crashed the daily White House press briefing to kick off the Obama administration’s “Recovery Summer,” a six-week-long campaign to promote the belief that “the Recovery Act is working.” VP Biden claimed: “We knew that the hole dug by the recession that was created by the policies of the [...] More

• Morning Bell: The Limitless Power of the Obama-Kagan Congress

  Posted July 1st, 2010 at 9:23am in Rule of Law with 70 comments

  This Sunday, our nation will celebrate Independence Day, which commemorates the Continental Congress’ adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration preamble reads: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these [...] More

• Morning Bell: Obama’s Oil Spill To-Do List

  Posted June 30th, 2010 at 9:42am in American Leadership, Energy and Environment with 125 comments

  The oil spill crisis in the Gulf of Mexico gets worse by the day. Oil spews from the broken well, further polluting our water and shores. The clean-up efforts drag on with bureaucratic interference, making matters worse. And what is the Obama administration doing? It continues to push for unrelated responses that will have a [...] More

• Morning Bell: The Dodd-Frank Assault on Economic Recovery

  Posted June 29th, 2010 at 9:16am in Enterprise and Free Markets with 43 comments

  Following the release of the 2,000-page Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill last Friday, fixed-income portfolio manager Christine McConnell told Businessweek: “Clarity is good. [Once financial institutions] understand the rules of the road they’ll be able to accommodate their business models.” There is only one problem: passage of the Dodd-Frank bill doesn’t provide any clarity. In fact, [...] More

• Morning Bell: Will Elena Kagan Defend the Rule of Law?

  Posted June 28th, 2010 at 9:30am in Rule of Law with 46 comments

  The Senate Judiciary Committee will begin its hearing today on the nomination of Elena Kagan to be the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Kagan is no stranger to the confirmation process; in fact, she devoted one of her few academic writings entirely to the subject, writing: The Senate’s consideration of [...] More