A look at Detroit from the inside out
"The last thing Detroit needs is a bailout. What it needs is to sweep away a city charter that protects only bureaucrats, civil-service rules that straightjacket municipal departments, and obsolete...
View ArticleThe politics of revulsion
The public doesn't like Democrats. They like Republicans even less. All of this revulsion doesn't bode well for Republicans in the latest round of "continuing resolution" discussions to fund the...
View ArticleWhy won’t the Obama Government ever shoot straight with us?
By Tom Quiner “Existing policies were grandfathered in. If a policy was not extended, then that was up to the insurance company, probably because it would no longer be a very competitive policy.” This...
View Article‘Climate change’ news you don’t hear
The Obama White House pumped out an 829 page report called, "The National Climate Assessment." True to form, the summary, which is the only part the mainstream media (MSM) reads, mimics the president's...
View Article“The IRS scandal isn’t Watergate …”
By Tom Quiner Daniel Henninger, who writes the “Wonderland” column for the Wall Street Journal, characterizes the IRS scandal this way: “The IRS tea-party audit story isn’t Watergate; it’s worse than...
View ArticleQUIZ: What enrages Obama?
It's hard to get under President Obama's skin. He prides himself in keeping his cool. Even when he intones sharp words, he delivers them with a calm exterior that reveals minimal passion. That's what...
View Article“Republican cuts kill.” Nonsense.
Political hyperbole has reached its Zenith with the suggestion that Republicans are pro ebola… More…
View ArticleThe discipline fix
Two sets of school systems. A tepid 20% of the students in System One are able to pass their state's math tests. A robust 95% of the students in System Two are able to pass the same tests. Which system...
View ArticleObama’s flaw is good news for conservatives
Much of the Obama legacy can be undone fairly quickly if Republicans regain the White House. If the president had enacted these changes via legislative action, much like Mr. Clinton and Mr. Reagan did,...
View ArticleConservatives, are you ready to be intimidated even more?
It's going to get worse. Conservative groups have been subjected to a shocking level of political intimidation during the Obama years. Imagine what it'll be like under the back alley tactics of the...
View ArticleIndividual freedom is priceless
"The story of human progress is striving, dreaming and sacrificing for a better future. Instead of believing that happy, successful individuals make for a successful society, socialism insists that a...
View ArticleLet us restore checks and balances
We're not a banana republic, despite Barack Obama's best efforts. We're the United States of America, a nation with a superior system of governance because of a system of checks and balances. It's time...
View ArticleA good man is confirmed to head the EPA
"President Obamacouldn’t get his climate-change agenda through a Democratic Congress, so he ordered the EPA to impose it on the 50 states by diktat. The agency reinterpreted statute after ancient...
View ArticleThe heartlessness of Obamacare
Democrats and their media allies decry any Republican attempts to repeal and replace Obamacare as heartless. If heartlessness is the issue to the Left, then they should lead the charge in replacing...
View ArticleIowa abortions contribute to the Iowa worker shortage
By Iowans for Life Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal ran with the headline: “Iowa’s Labor Plight: Too Many Jobs.” They ran with the wrong lede. The correct headline should have been: “Iowa’s Labor...
View Article“Republican cuts kill.” Nonsense.
By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3D0DxjgPB0] Political hyperbole has reached its Zenith with the suggestion that Republicans are pro ebola. Sigh. Watch the ad above put out by...
View ArticleThe discipline fix
By Tom Quiner Two sets of school systems. A tepid 20% of the students in System One are able to pass their state’s math tests. A robust 95% of the students in System Two are able to pass the same...
View ArticleObama’s flaw is good news for conservatives
By Tom Quiner Barack Obama is a lousy politician. His radical transformation of America has been imposed from the top down. He has been unable, no make that unwilling, to build political coalitions...
View ArticleConservatives, are you ready to be intimidated even more?
By Tom Quiner It’s going to get worse. Conservative groups have been subjected to a shocking level of political intimidation during the Obama years. Imagine what it’ll be like under the back alley...
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