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By Wes Keene | April 14, 2010 | In Category: General
Most of us would like more money. It’s just normal to want to be compensated well for our efforts. In fact, we want to be compensated for lots of other reasons, too. Maybe your bills have gone up, you’re paying more for groceries or a kid is headed off to college. All those things cost money and it’s almost second nature to want our employers to cough up a few extra bucks. But when taxpayers are asked foot the bill for public sector pay hikes, they get understandably upset, especially with near 10% unemployment.
Defining A Conservative
By Wes Keene | April 11, 2010 | In Category: General, Political Parties
American voters are constantly boxed in to a single political party. The only part more difficult than finding a candidate you can tolerate, is finding anyone to give you a straight answer on politics. Polls allegedly designed to help less educated voters make better voting decisions often just steer the person in the direction of a particular party. Voters need to pay close attention to issues, not labels, and it’s tougher than it sounds.
No Country For Obama
By Wes Keene | March 27, 2010 | In Category: General, Political Parties
America took a bold and mistaken step in 2008, by trusting the stated agenda of Obama and the Democrats. It didn’t take long to learn we’d been foiled. Obama and his party will soon learn that while we’re a trusting people who are willing to give change a try, we won’t tolerate a dismal failure forever. Democrats’ fates are quickly being sealed by the radical actions of Obama and the Democrat leadership in Congress. Certainly, voters will correct these mistakes in 2010, and again in 2012.
Fifteen Obama Recess Appointments
By Wes Keene | March 27, 2010 | In Category: General
Like broken promises, every President makes recess appointments. Every President since Washington, in fact. While the Constitutionally authorized technique garners a lot of media attention, they aren’t particularly glamorous, and aren’t a major power grab for the Executive Branch. Obama’s appointment of Becker to the NLRB may ruffle feathers, but there’s no legal problem with using a recess appointment to get Becker in.
The Slippery Slope Of Freedom
By Wes Keene | March 25, 2010 | In Category: General
Health care reform is just the latest erosion of rights. On top of being expensive, bad legislation, it also continues a long stretch of laws designed to reduce your choice. At this rate, we won’t need to commit a crime to join the government chain gang before long. We’ll all be slaves to the State.
The New National Religion: Atheism
By Wes Keene | March 25, 2010 | In Category: General
Our Constitutional freedom from government interference into religion has been beaten up badly. Liberal judicial activists will never stop trying to remove every last reference to God from our society. The recent Ave Maria (in)decision is just another in a long string of setbacks.
C-SPAN: The Best Government Resource Government Never Offered
By Wes Keene | March 23, 2010 | In Category: General
Recent political events have made C-SPAN invaluable. However, C-SPAN has been around a long time doing exactly the same thing. Since 1979 we’ve been offered the same wall to wall, boring coverage of Congress.
Obama Administration Trips Up On Israel
By Wes Keene | March 22, 2010 | In Category: General
Slightly less startling than Obama’s domestic agenda is his ineptitude on foreign policy. Relying almost exclusively on his personal charm, Obama seems to be without a plan when that charm fails. The situation in Iran has not changed despite Obama’s engagement and diplomacy. Worse, his recent critiques of Isreal call into question whether or not Obama is interested in continuing to work with our long time allies.
As Regulation Increases, Consumers Pay The Price
By Wes Keene | March 22, 2010 | In Category: Economy, General
To be honest, the free market is less than ideal. In a perfect world basic necessities would be taken care of for everyone, prices would remain constant and low, and aspiring business people would be free to innovate and propser. The reality is much more bleak. Free markets cannot be everything to everyone, and in practice people end up making tough choices to pay their bills. The worse news is that attempting to regulate markets only makes the situation worse.
Liberals Win the Battle For Your Time
By Wes Keene | March 19, 2010 | In Category: General
Liberals are guilty of many things. They waste America’s money, resources, and relationships with our allies on petty issues mainstream Americans don’t care about. The current regime can also add “time bandit” to their resumes.
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