Annelise Anderson Senior Research Fellow The Hoover Institution Stanford UniversityPrepared for the Public Policy Conference Rebuilding America’s Foundation: Prosperity, Personal Freedom, and Private Enterprise Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas June 23, 1995 My subject today is bringing accountability to the federal budget process. Just what is accountability, and what we are to do to those who... 

If Joe the Plumber were Jawad the Suspected Terrorist, civil-liberties activists would stampede the halls of Congress on his behalf. Liberal columnists would hyperventilate over the outrageous invasions of his privacy by Ohio state and local employees.   The ACLU would demand the Big Brother snoopers’ heads. And Democratic leaders would convene immediate hearings and parade him around the... 

The other day I went to a Hollywood luncheon crammed with producers, directors, writers and other film industry notables. One of them, Larry Gelbart of “MASH” fame, spoke, telling the group that since capitalism has failed, why don’t we try socialism? Try socialism? Take a sip of it and see how it tastes?  It doesn’t work that way. There’s an old saying that you can’t be half-socialist... 

If Barack Obama is not a socialist, he does the best imitation of one I’ve ever seen. Under his tax plan, the top 5 percent of wage-earners have their income tax rates raised from 35 percent to 40 percent, while the bottom 40 percent of all wage-earners, who pay no income tax, are sent federal checks. If this is not the socialist redistribution of wealth, what is it? A steeply graduated income... 

Dishing from the McCain campaign trail with Judy Black, national co-chair of Women for McCain. Judy is traveling with her husband, McCain’s top advisor Charlie Black. We talked behind the scenes on the trail in the battleground states. Connie Hair: Tell me about the reaction you’re getting from women around the country. Judy Black: The women are so fired up. We’ve been going into the battleground... 

In July 2007, pollsters for the New York Times and CBS News asked respondents to name the issues most important to them as they considered which candidate they would support for president. The top choice for both Republicans and Democrats was national security–Iraq for Democrats, terrorism for Republicans. That was then. Today national security has virtually disappeared from the presidential... 

The WSJ takes Obama to task on his complete ineptitude and lack of leadership: If Sen. Obama were truly looking for a kind of deregulation that might be responsible for the current financial crisis, he need only look back to 1998, when the Clinton administration ruled that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could satisfy their affordable housing obligations by purchasing subprime mortgages. This ultimately... 

Senator John McCain (R–AZ), the Republican presidential nominee, has proposed an ambitious health care reform agenda. His plan focuses on four key objectives: making health insurance innovative, portable, and affordable; ensuring care for high-risk patients; lowering health care costs; and confronting long-term care challenges.[1]  These goals are mean­ingful, and McCain’s policy measures... 

The Washington Post Wrongly Claims Progress Towards Democracy In Africa Has Degenerated Despite 50 Democratic Elections Being Held Over The Past Four Years Today, The Washington Post incorrectly asserted that President Bush has neglected his commitment to democracy in Africa .  The Post’s blatantly one-sided article ignores the significant democratic progress that has been taking place across... 

Bank of America makes a $100 million in loans to 1,000 homeowners Bank of America wishes to make home loans to an additional 1,000 home owners but it does have the $100 million  Read More →