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... 

After a long and careful consideration of all the implications and possible consequences of my actions today, I have decided to go through with this in the hope that our country can indeed be guided into the right direction. First, a little personal background… I am a female grad student in my 20’s, and a registered Democrat. During the primaries, I was a campaign worker for the Clinton candidacy.... 

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. ... 

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... 

Funny how these things get noticed so close to election day.  Now we know what Henry Cisneros, President Clinton’s first HUD Secretary, has been doing all these years: As the Clinton administration’s top housing official in the mid-1990s, Mr. Cisneros loosened mortgage restrictions so first-time buyers could qualify for loans they could never get before. Then, capitalizing on a housing expansion... 

This moral relativism eerily echoes Barack Obama’s blasé reaction to questions about his relationship with Ayers and Dohrn. The former is just “a guy who lives in my neighborhood” we are told. With a rationale like this Obama insults our intelligence. It is inconceivable that someone with his education – including at Columbia University, where the SDS’s occupation of the campus in 1968 is... 

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... 

In a presidential election in which both candidates have promised to reach across party lines and bridge the divide that separates Democrats and Republicans, it increasingly appears that, if elected, one candidate may not have to.      Political insiders now see a plausible path to a historic Democratic majority in Congress — a filibuster-proof Democratic majority in the Senate and a reinforced...