Categorie: Preluari

1. There’s an app for that So many wasteful programs, I hardly know where to begin! How about with $100,000 in prizes offered by the Department of Energy to develop an energy app that would help users track their energy usage in their home. It’s a novel idea as our energy resources are finite and… Continuă lectura Top 10 wasteful government programs

The signature achievement of President Obama’s four years of office was the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. „ObamaCare”. Passed into law in 2010, and initially upheld as constitutional by the Supreme Court in 2012, ObamaCare has had an ongoing negative effect upon the employment situation in the United States since… Continuă lectura You Pick: Your Job or Your Health Insurance

Mitt Romney has the chance to do something that doesn’t happen very often-defeat an incumbent president. There are only two real examples of this in modern political history. After the first Gulf War, President George H.W. Bush had approval ratings between 80 and 90 percent. The peaceful conclusion of the Cold War during his first… Continuă lectura Knocking off the king

Barack Obama calls himself a “progressive” or “liberal,” and we should take him at his word. He had the distinction of being the most liberal member of the United States Senate when he ran for President in 2008. The title had been conferred by National Journal, an inside-the-Beltway watchdog that annually assigns Senators (and Congressmen)… Continuă lectura Barack Obama and the Crisis of Liberalism

Media Matters Four years ago, Newsweek proclaimed „the end of conservatism.” Newsweek announced this week that it would reach its end as a print publication on New Year’s Eve. Don’t expect conservatives to break into „Auld Lang Syne.” Henry Hazlitt, whose „Business Tides” column graced Newsweek’s pages from 1946 to 1966, got an early bead on the magazine’s downward spiral… Continuă lectura Newsweek Goes Weakly

The West sighed in relief when Rimsha Masih, the 14-year-old Christian girl arrested in Pakistan on August 16 for allegedly burning pages of the Quran, was finally released.  Yet the West remains clueless concerning the graphic abuses-including rape and murder-Christian children in Pakistan routinely suffer, simply for being Christian.  Consider two stories alone, both of… Continuă lectura The Rape and Murder of Pakistan’s Christian Children

Liberal celebrities want all of the adoration that social media engagement has to offer – but none of the accountability that actual engagement requires. For the Hollywood elite, it’s “do as they say, not as they tweet.” But actress and outspoken Obama campaign co-chair Eva Longoria learned a hard lesson this week on Twitter: Conservatives… Continuă lectura Obama Campaign Co-Chair Eva Longoria Gets Schooled

Over dinner with an anesthesiologist friend, we discussed his new job -specifically his „on call” schedule. He explained that he needed to get one of his partners to take his next day on call, but that it shouldn’t be a problem. In fact, he said that his partners vie for these call days. I was… Continuă lectura Obamacare may be around, but will your doctor?

What’s the number one antidote to child poverty in America? Marriage. The truth is that children born to married-parent families are 82 percent less likely to live in poverty. The most effective weapon against child poverty is within our reach. Last week during the second presidential debate, former Governor Mitt Romney encouraged Americans to consider… Continuă lectura Is Marriage the Key to Prosperity?

“But don’t forget, you put $90 billion – like 50 years worth of breaks – into solar and wind, to Solyndra and Fisker and Tesla and Ener1. I mean, I had a friend who said, you don’t just pick the winners and losers; you pick the losers.”  –  Mitt Romney to Barack Obama, during the… Continuă lectura Your “green energy” bankruptcy of the day: Satcon Technology