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 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... 

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... 

I need to offer an apology to a commenter by the name of sekoras, who recently left a comment on this blog about a brewing bombshell of a story. I kind of pooh-poohed it at the time, but it now looks like sekoras was on to something real. Bear with me as I lay this thing out for your information. The basic idea is that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii, and therefore is not eligible to hold... 

A recent survey of Britons under the age of 20 reported that more than 20 percent of them believe Winston Churchill, Richard the Lion-Hearted and Florence Nightingale were fictional characters, but that Robin Hood, Sherlock Holmes and King Arthur were real people. We hope American students are more knowledgeable, but evidence is not reassuring. They scored an F, or just 54 percent, in a new survey... 

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... 

Controlling the BorderA chilling hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2005 provides a useful starting point in any debate on immigration reform. Then CIA Chief Porter Goss set the stage by testifying that “it may be only a matter of time” before Al Qaeda or another terrorist group attempts to use a chemical, biological, or nuclear weapon against the United States. And then Admiral... 

  Republicans tore into the Democrats’ sham “energy” bill yesterday at a Capitol Hill rally that drew several members of both houses, including Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), and Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.).“This wasn’t a bipartisan bill, this wasn’t a compromise bill.  This was a jam-it-down-your-throat bill on the part of the Democrats,” Rep. Michele Bachmann...