Archive for January, 2011
Waivers for Favors: Big Labor’s Obamacare Escape Hatch
President Obama’s storytellers recently launched a White House blog series called “Voices of Health Reform,” where “readers can meet average Americans already benefiting from the health reform law.” I propose a new White House series: “Voices of Health Reform Waivers,” where taxpayers can meet all the politically connected unions benefiting from exclusive get-out-of-Obamacare passes — [...]
Full StoryAmerica Needs a School Choice Perestroika
40-year-old Kelly Williams-Bolar lives in a housing project in Akron, Ohio. The local public school that her children were trapped in is one of the worst performing schools in the state. GreatSchools, the country’s leading source of information on school performance, gave Akron City School District a 4/10 rating. Her two girls have no choice [...]
Full StoryPlatitudes, Platitudes, Platitudes
President Obama’s State of the Union address said more about the state of his approach to governing than it did with the present condition of this nation under his governance. It was an uninterrupted march of platitude upon platitude, with nary a solution offered to any of the problems facing the United States. As anyone [...]
Full StoryHope, Change, and “Invest”
I missed the middle section of Obama’s State of the Union address when I took a break to read “War and Peace,” but I gather he never got around to what I was hoping he’d say, which is: “What was I thinking?” The national debt is $14 trillion, the Democrats won’t stop spending, and President [...]
Full StoryRahm Seen His Opportunities, and He Took ‘Em
WASHINGTON — Ah so, every day, in every way, it becomes ever clearer that Rahm Emanuel’s campaign for mayor of Chicago and mine have striking similarities. Rahm went off to Washington two years ago to pursue politics on the national stage. I left Chicago about 40 years ago to pursue politicians on the national stage, [...]
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