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• Morning Bell: Bigger Government Is Not the Solution to Big Government Problems

  Posted March 11th, 2010 at 9:31am in Enterprise and Free Markets with 29 comments

  The final details of the financial regulatory reform bill being negotiated by Sens. Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Bob Corker (R-TN) are still being hammered out, but the underlying contours are clear: more government bureaucracy layered on top of our existing impenetrable and unaccountable financial regulatory system. Specifically, the Dodd/Corker plan reportedly still contains these elements: The [...] More

• Morning Bell: The Up or Down Vote Our Country Really Deserves

  Posted March 10th, 2010 at 10:03am in Education with 41 comments

  President Barack Obama is touring the country asking for an up-or-down vote on his health care plan. Forget for a second that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) can schedule an up-or-down vote on the Senate health care bill any time she wants, and keep in mind that while Democrats are trying to create the legislative text [...] More

• Morning Bell: Dead Legislation Walking

  Posted March 9th, 2010 at 9:33am in Health Care with 57 comments

  Another day, another stream of health care fantasy from the White House. A quick look at two health care events from yesterday, one in Glenside, Pennsylvania, and the other in Tawas City, Michigan, clearly exposes the yawing gap between the Obama administration’s health care rhetoric and cold hard legislative reality. First in Glenside, President Barack [...] More

• Morning Bell: A First Step Toward Freedom in the Middle East

  Posted March 8th, 2010 at 9:29am in American Leadership, Protect America with 35 comments

  Despite as many as 100 explosions which killed at least 38 people in Baghdad, Iraqis defied a desperate insurgency yesterday and turned out in strong numbers to choose a new Parliament. According to The New York Times, “turnout was higher than expected, and certainly higher than in the last parliamentary election in 2005. … Sunnis [...] More

• Morning Bell: So, How’s That Pivot to Jobs Going?

  Posted March 5th, 2010 at 9:28am in Enterprise and Free Markets with 67 comments

  Last week President Barack Obama hosted a seven-and-a-half-hour televised health care summit. This week the President launched his “final” campaign for passage of his health care plan. Next week, President Obama will travel to Missouri and Pennsylvania to continue this “final” effort to jam his unpopular plan through Congress. With this all-health-care-all-the-time White House agenda [...] More

• Morning Bell: No Votes Until the People Speak

  Posted March 3rd, 2010 at 9:48am in Health Care with 58 comments

  On March 5th of last year, firefighter Travis Ulerick, of Dublin, Indiana, introduced President Barack Obama at a White House summit on health care. Upon hearing the first rumblings of dissent about the President’s plan, Ulerick tells USA Today he thought at the time: “I definitely think it’s going to have to be a huge [...] More

• Morning Bell: “The American Public Is Not Behind This Bill”

  Posted March 2nd, 2010 at 9:15am in Health Care with 75 comments

  After more than a year of $862 billion dollar deficit stimulus bills, national-debt-doubling federal budgets, and government takeovers of the auto industry, it is difficult to remember that President Barack Obama actually ran as a moderate in many ways. On his way to a 53% – 46% win over Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), then-Sen. Obama [...] More

• Morning Bell: The Edifice Falls

  Posted March 1st, 2010 at 9:28am in Energy and Environment with 101 comments

  Having failed to convince the country that we should reorder one-sixth of our economy (health care) in one fell swoop, liberals in the Administration and Congress are now doubling down and moving on to the next big thing. This time it’s the transformation of everything, through climate legislation. One could almost stand agape, [...] More

• Morning Bell: A Sham of a Summit for a Sham of a Bill

  Posted February 25th, 2010 at 9:37am in Health Care with 41 comments

  Today’s White House-sponsored health care summit is an insult to the intelligence of every honest American. President Barack Obama’s communications minions are still trying sell his plan as an “opening bid” in the health care debate. But as Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus asks: “With whom is he bidding? The public dance is with Republicans, [...] More

• Morning Bell: President Obama’s “Pro-Business” Policies Are Killing the Free Market

  Posted February 24th, 2010 at 9:43am in Enterprise and Free Markets with 53 comments

  Last night President Barack Obama held a behind-closed-door dinner with 17 chief executive officers from major U.S. corporations including Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase, Verizon Communications’ Ivan Seidenberg, and General Electric’s Jeffrey Immelt. According to Bloomberg, the President made the case to his select guests that his administration is “fundamentally business-friendly.” This comes almost [...] More