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Peggy Noonan: America Is at Risk of Boiling Over – WSJ.com

Ticklers Wife — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 02:07:08 +0000

But do our political leaders have any sense of what people are feeling deep down? They don’t act as if they do. I think their detachment from how normal people think is more dangerous and disturbing than it has been in the past. I started noticing in the 1980s, the growing gulf between the country’s thought leaders, as they’re called—the political and media class, the universities—and those living what for lack of a better word we’ll call normal lives on the ground in America. The two groups were agitated by different things, concerned about different things, had different focuses, different world views.

But I’ve never seen the gap wider than it is now. I think it is a chasm. In Washington they don’t seem to be looking around and thinking, Hmmm, this nation is in trouble, it needs help. They’re thinking something else. I’m not sure they understand the American Dream itself needs a boost, needs encouragement and protection. They don’t seem to know or have a sense of the mood of the country.

via Peggy Noonan: America Is at Risk of Boiling Over – WSJ.com.

» What MSM Won’t Tell You: Doctors Are Challenging Government Health Care-and the AMA – Big Government

Ticklers Wife — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:20:47 +0000

» What MSM Won’t Tell You: Doctors Are Challenging Government Health Care-and the AMA – Big Government.

Scherz and the other board members want Docs 4 patient Care to grow into what the AMA should have been. This means more than defeating ObamaCare. The group is non-partisan and anxious to work with all those who want to hear from Docs 4 Patient Care on the dangers of state-run medicine. With chapters recently up and running in several states, he sees growth ahead. That is likely discouraging news for the status quo world of Washington, D.C., but an inspiration for other Americans who see what their government is doing and want to offer an alternative.

Democrats’ Quiet Changes Pile Up – WSJ.com

Ticklers Wife — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:05:44 +0000

While President Barack Obama still faces stiff headwinds on a range of major legislation on his agenda, he has been signing into law a slew of smaller initiatives that had gathered dust on the Democratic wish list for years.

Many of the bills had been blocked by Republicans who considered the measures unnecessary expansions of government or too costly. But facing Democratic majorities in Congress, conservatives are picking their battles and in many cases letting the legislation roll through.

read the rest here… Democrats’ Quiet Changes Pile Up – WSJ.com.

Group questions Catholic funeral for Kennedy OneNewsNow.com

Tickler — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:07:39 +0000

He adds that while Senator Kennedy called himself Catholic, like Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Joe Biden, they are actually wolves in sheep’s clothing.

“They do not hold to the teaching of the church. They, in fact, take every opportunity seemingly to contradict the teaching of our church,” Euteneuer says. “So in the case of Senator Edward Kennedy, he was not only against his church’s teaching on the issue of abortion, but the same with embryonic stem cell research, the same with gay marriage and various other issues which set him in diametric opposition to his church’s very well-defined and clearly articulated teaching.”

Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Has Liberalism Jumped the Shark?

Ticklers Wife — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:56:03 +0000

Identity politics, when viewed in its purest form, is racism. Keynesian economics, when distilled to its basic concepts, flies in the face of common sense. Re-branding political policy doesn’t change its ultimate effectiveness. Hypocrites are hypocrites regardless of the causes they support, or claim to champion. The U.S. should not be about “nuance” when it comes to foreign policy. We must always stand on the side of freedom and democracy.

For the first time in a long time even a casual observer can clearly see what modern liberalism is all about.

via Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Has Liberalism Jumped the Shark?.

This is the kind of Representation NY State get in the Senate

Tickler — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:04:50 +0000

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Well done Chuck. Bet the union lobbyists have a real email address for you.

Ex-CIA chief: Obama risks national security – CNN.com

Tickler — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:16:13 +0000

Hayden said he called several senior White House officials to express his opposition before the president released the documents. Hayden also noted that four previous CIA directors, as well as current agency director Leon Panetta, opposed the release.

via Ex-CIA chief: Obama risks national security – CNN.com.

A Reckless Congress – WSJ.com

Ticklers Wife — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:09:24 +0000

Mr. Obama’s February budget provided the outline, but the House bill now fills in the details. To wit, tax increases that would take U.S. rates higher even than most of Europe. Yet even those increases aren’t nearly enough to finance the $1 trillion in new spending, which itself is surely a low-ball estimate. Meanwhile, the bill would create a new government health entitlement that will kill private insurance and lead to a government-run system.

via A Reckless Congress – WSJ.com.

Director’s Blog » Blog Archive » The Long-Term Budget Outlook

Tickler — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:16:25 +0000

Under current law, the federal budget is on an unsustainable path, because federal debt will continue to grow much faster than the economy over the long run. Although great uncertainty surrounds long-term fiscal projections, rising costs for health care and the aging of the population will cause federal spending to increase rapidly under any plausible scenario for current law. Unless revenues increase just as rapidly, the rise in spending will produce growing budget deficits. Large budget deficits would reduce national saving, leading to more borrowing from abroad and less domestic investment, which in turn would depress economic growth in the United States. Over time, accumulating debt would cause substantial harm to the economy. The following chart shows our projection of federal debt relative to GDP under the two scenarios we modeled.

via Director’s Blog » Blog Archive » The Long-Term Budget Outlook.

Card Check – Just Good for Unions

Tickler — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:40:58 +0000

YouTube – Card Check – Just Good for Unions.