Obama:America Was Not a “Great Country,”1776-1965

Ben Johnson,FloydReports.com

As the nation digests Barack Obama’s plan to ride a tax hike to re-election,one phrase from yesterday’s budget speech confirms what this author has long stated:the president is fundamentally an anti-American Messianic figure who believes he was sent to save our nation from itself and its Founders. Speaking a [...]

Wisconsin and the Battle for the Soul of America

Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson,FloydReports.com

It is hard to overstate what is at stake in the dramatic showdown between Wisconsin’s teachers and their Republican governor and legislature. The political and economic course of our country hinges on how the issue of public-sector unions is resolved,in Wisconsin and elsewhere.

For the sake of [...]

Obama threatens to follow in FDR's economic missteps

By Amity Shlaes,Washington Post

With unemployment high and the Dow Jones industrial average bumping about,the big debate this summer is how to prevent a double-dip recession resembling that of the late 1930s. Some say Washington should spend more,arguing that government austerity triggered the collapse in 1937 [...]

How Is the Stimulus Money Allocated?

By Veronique de Rugy,National Review

 Obama is using the Stimulus for political purposes

Unemployment isn’t a factor,but politics is. Your stimulus dollars at work.

Using recipient report data from Recovery.gov,as well as economic and political data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics,the Census Bureau,GovTrack.us,[...]

Obama’s Failed and Tired Ideas From the Past

By Peter Ferrara,American Spectator

Obama is reliving Keynesianism

The entire U.S. GDP is roughly $14 trillion. The government currently spends roughly $3.5 trillion of that. In his stimulus plan,Obama proposes effectively to borrow another $1 trillion from the private economy to add to $1 trillion in still further government spending.

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Obama’s choice:FDR or Reagan

By Pat Buchanan,Worldnetdaily

Presidents Ronald Reagan and Franklin Roosevelt

Barack Obama,it is said,will inherit the worst times since the Great Depression. Not to minimize the crisis we are in,but we need a little perspective here.

The Great Depression began with the Great Crash of 1929. By 1931,[...]