Fat President,Lean Government

Tom Purcell,FloydReports.com

A week ago,Los Angeles Times editors asked readers if New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has the look of a president.

“Is America ready for a president who,frankly,doesn’t look healthy?”they asked.

Sheesh! You’d think corpulent Americans might catch a break in these sensitive times.

The editors explained that [...]

Who Owns Your Money:You or the Government?

Susan Stamper Brown,FloydReports.com

Ever heard the phrase,“Perception is reality?”To the honest person,understanding this concept can inspire you to excel. To the dishonest,perception becomes the mask under which lies vulnerability or perhaps a more sinister reality.

This is true in the court system,as we have witnessed this week with [...]

The World’s Toughest (and Rarest) Job:An Honest Congressman

Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson,FloydReports.com

Being a congressman can be a great job. It can be attractive for someone who relishes the ersatz virtue of playing Santa Claus with other people’s money,who finds a year-round routine of fund-raising social events enjoyable,and who covets receiving one of the most generous pensions on the [...]

State of the Union:Mammoth Government is the New Normal

Ben Johnson,FloydReports.com

In his 2011 State of the Union Address,Barack Obama gave himself five more years of trillion-dollar deficit spending,a $678 billion income tax hike,a Social Security tax increase,and the permanent extension of ObamaCare – and he gave Republicans medical malpractice reform and a joke about a [...]

Growing Government by Stealth

David W. Almasi,Conservativeblog.org

Project 21 member Cherylyn Harley LeBon has a featured commentary now posted on the Daily Caller web site about largely unnoticed but vigorous efforts by the Obama Administration to grow the size of the federal government by turning private contractors into federal employees.

“Insourcing” is the process of [...]

The Top 10 Ways Obama is Destroying Our Country

Larry Klayman,WorldNetDaily

As if 16 years of Bill and Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush,and their corrupt advisers like James Carville and Karl Rove,in and around the White House were not enough to bring our nation to its knees,the last one and one half years of President Barack Obama’s reign [...]

HUD Encourages Stimulus Recipients to Post Signs Praising Obama

Ben Johnson,Floyd Reports

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is telling recipients of the $787 billion stimulus bill to post highway signs praising big government – and Barack Obama. Internal HUD memos and e-mails show the agency tells states undertaking road improvements or building projects funded by [...]

Obama's plan to stay in power? Another Bailout.

Obama using Government Money to maintain control?

Today,Patrick Buchanan came out with a scathing attack on Obama’s most recent bailout proposal.

Obama calls it an “emergency” measure to prevent “massive layoffs of teachers,police and firefighters.” Yet,none of the 20 million state,county or municipal workers can lose their job unless [...]

Obama Gives New Meaning to "Big Government"

By Jay Cost,Real Clear Politics

 Obama expands the use of the bully pulpit to almost every area of life

Barack Obama has been compared to a lot of Presidents. Franklin Roosevelt,John Kennedy,Jimmy Carter,Ronald Reagan,even George W. Bush. But no intrepid analyst has ever –so far [...]

Obama’s Dependency Agenda

By  George Will,Townhall

Obam and Biden are Promoting dependency on government

Only two things are infinite —the expanding universe and Democrats’hostility to the District of Columbia’s school choice program. Killing this small program,which currently benefits 1,300 mostly poor and minority children,is odious and indicative. It is a [...]