• Conservatives Are Missing The Point On Welfare Reform

    With the cost of the federal government's more than 80 welfare programs growing from nearly nothing in 1960 to more than 5% of GDP today, it was inevitable that welfare reform would resurface as a national issue at some point...

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  • Jindal: Go Beyond the Red Ink and Remake the GOP

    Republican leaders have swallowed their pride and accepted that their game plan must change.

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  • Yes, Mr. President, We Are a Nation of Takers

    In President Obama's second inaugural address, he not only outlined an ambitious agenda for his second term but also seemed intent on shutting down debate about the social-welfare state and its impact on American life.

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  • What the GOP should stand for: Opportunity

    Since Election Day, much energy has been spent analyzing why Republicans did so poorly. Many have urged that Republicans must "moderate their views," by which they mean we should adopt more policies of Democrats.
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  • Republicans Renew Focus on Poverty

    Eight months before "the 47 percent" became shorthand for Mitt Romney's seeming lack of empathy for struggling Americans, the former Massachusetts governor made smaller headlines with a another ill-considered remark, which also bolstered perceptions that he was dismissive of the nation's underclass.
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  • Cox and Archer: Why $16 Trillion Only Hints at the True U.S. Debt

     A decade and a half ago, both of us served on President Clinton's Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform, the forerunner to President Obama's recent National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. 

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  • Redistribution & Reality

    The recently discovered tape on which Barack Obama said back in 1998 that he believes in redistribution is not really news. He said the same thing to Joe the Plumber four years ago. But the tape may serve a useful purpose if it gets people to thinking about what the consequences of redistribution are.

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  • The Case for Kemp

    Conservatives have long been looking for the next Ronald Reagan, when they ought to be looking for the next Jack Kemp, Reagan's role model. Amid the malaise of the '70s, Kemp devised a supply-side economic strategy that inspired a president and a generation.

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  • To modernize, the GOP must embrace compassionate conservatism

    I argued recently that the GOP should modernize, not moderate. It caught on. Up-and-coming GOP leaders like Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers soon used similar language when talking about the future direction of the party.

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There’s a Hole in my Bucket, Dear Liza

Written by Guest Authors on Monday, 11 March 2013. Posted in Politics & Process

The View from the Middle

It saddens me to say that our President has taken the "blame game" and the "credit grab" to a whole new level. Now that the country has rejected his claims that we would experience locusts, plagues and pestilence as a result of the sequester budget cuts, he has a new strategy. He is now blaming Republicans for results that haven't even occurred yet.

He claims, with confidence, that these automatic cuts will cost 750,000 jobs in the future and reduce growth in our GDP (Gross Domestic Product) by over half a percent. And we all know how accurate his past forecasts have been. Unemployment never did go over 8%. Oops, yes it did. But, he was "dead on" with his original estimate of the cost of Obamacare. Oops, the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) now admits that the cost will be DOUBLE the original estimates. Oops, might be triple...

The Battle to Limit Government; America Needs to Win Now

Written by Guest Authors on Wednesday, 23 January 2013. Posted in Domestic Policy

America greeted 2013 numbed to the absurdity of 0% interest rates, endless Federal Reserve bond purchases and $1 trillion deficits. President Obama imposed a January fiscal deal that added $4 trillion to the projected national debt, on the surreal claim that the U.S. government doesn't have a spending problem. His Cabinet and policy choices show satisfaction with the status quo and a state of denial over the dangers ahead. In December he made the claim of national well-being: "Our economy is really starting to recover, and we're starting to see optimistic signs."

However, per the U.S. census, inflation-adjusted median household income has fallen for more than a decade, a stunning national failure. The federal debt has topped $16 trillion, which is more than our entire GDP. Much of the increase is being funded by the Fed's $1.6 trillion in dangerous overnight debt to the banking system...

Obamacare – Making Business Think Small

Written by Guest Authors on Thursday, 10 January 2013. Posted in Domestic Policy

The View from the Middle

Since Obamacare was passed I've wanted desperately to understand what was in it, but struggled with how to do that. Should I read the almost 3,000 page bill, and would I even be able to understand what was in it once I did. Even Nancy Pelosi famously said, "We have to pass the bill so that we can find out what's in it." If she didn't totally understand it after she read it (I'll give her the benefit of the doubt), what chance would I have? It would take me weeks and I would be no better off.

So, I decided to talk to a small businessman, and friend, who has already had to work within its regulations and would have to comply with future rules as they come into effect. What I found was that there are many regulations that will challenge small business owners and there is one huge unintended consequence we should all understand. But first let me tell you about the entrepreneur that I interviewed...