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...
If he’s elected next week, Barack Obama won’t be our first black president: Toni Morrison labeled Bill Clinton our “first black president” in October 1998. (We have seen no reports that she retracted that label as a result of the South Carolina primary campaign). And never mind all the nonsense floating around the internet. Barack Obama wasn’t born in Indonesia, or Kenya or wherever. ...
We have a choice between two futures. For the first, fast forward 23 days. It’s November 17. Congress convenes for a special session with a veto-proof Democratic majority Senate, an expanded Democrat majority in the House and a Democrat in the White House. The sole item on their agenda is to pass the $300 billion government spending package promised by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi back in October.There...
Republican John McCain, kicking off a cross-state bus tour aimed at keeping vote-rich Florida from swinging to the Democrats, on Thursday accused rival Barack Obama of saying “anything to get elected.” The Arizona senator noted that Obama had added a work requirement to his proposal to grant a 10 percent universal mortgage credit. Obama aides said the campaign added the requirement two...
The 2008 presidential campaign has centered on big economic and foreign policy issues. Almost completely overlooked have been the candidates’ positions on higher education. In McCain’s case, that hardly matters because he doesn’t really have much to say. Naturally, he says that the nation needs a more skilled workforce to meet increasing global competition. (Although it sounds good, that idea...
ABOARD “Straight Talk Air” (between New York and Miami) — Sen. John McCain would “absolutely” not compromise on Supreme Court nominations if elected and would continue to nominate strict constructionist judges if any of his Supreme Court nominations were defeated by a hostile Senate. McCain said that and much more to HUMAN EVENTS chief political correspondent John Gizzi in an exclusive...
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...
Barack accused Senator McCain of voting against a health care plan, however, Barack left out many salient facts. First, SHIFA provides free or greatly reduced health care and insurance to those families earning up to 200% of the poverty level, $42,000. The Democrats proposed increasing the funding by $65 billion dollars to include families earning up to 400% of the poverty level, $84,000. President...
Yesterday, President Bush met with the President’s Export Council to discuss the crucial contributions of trade to the American economy. Last year, the U.S. exported a record $1.6 trillion in goods and services to countries around the world, and in the past four quarters, trade has accounted for more than half of the growth in the U.S. economy. For the first half of 2008, the United States exported...
Setting the Record Straight: Speaker Pelosi Misleads on SCHIP Congress’ Bill Would Expand SCHIP Beyond Poor Children It’s Intended To Help; Move Children From Private To Government Insurance White House News Setting the Record Straight “The policies of the government ought to be help poor children and to focus on poor children. … Poor kids first.” -...
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