Dear Bill Bennett: Get A Little More Reaganesque On Common Core
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Common Core has revealed the rot inherent in our government and education system. And Bill Bennett can’t tell at all.
Tagged: ronald reagan
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
Don’t Expect Big Changes to Come from the Republicans’ Big Wins
Decades of disappointment should have taught us that the Republican Party’s big wins Tuesday will change little or nothing that comes out of Washington, DC in a substantive way.
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Economics · Featured · Politics · Regulation
Ronald Reagan’s ‘A Time for Choosing’ Speech at 50
Today marks 50 years to the day that, to paraphrase the late great Libertarian Murray Rothbard, Ronald Reagan made “The Speech” entitled “A Time For Choosing.”
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Politics · Regulation
Ryan Leads On Welfare Reform And Fighting Poverty
No one in Washington is taking the lead in addressing poverty and welfare reform like House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan. Almost alone, he has noted that this year marks the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty.
Quoth the Reagan, Nevermore
Newt Gingrich’s recent article on CNN asks “What Would Reagan Do About ISIS?” Writing a “speech” from the perspective of Ronald Reagan as if he was still president, Gingrich seeks to show a more assertive, commanding response to the massive unrest in Iraq and Syria. The relative merits of Gingrich’s Reagan’s speech are not worth all that much consideration (In a nutshell, it calls for swift action against the militants, and generally damns the present policy). What is of interest is the strange phenomenon the article reveals about a large section of the American right wing today: dogmatic Ronald Reagan worship.
Featured · Government · Politics
It’s Time for a More Robust National Missile Defense Program
Since the Reagan administration, the United States has, under various guises, sought to develop technology that would render enemy intercontinental ballistic missiles non-threatening to its people and interests. The national missile defense program has been aimed at bringing about the end of foreign missile threats from rogue states and geopolitical foes alike. Missile defense systems have grown exponentially more effective and sophisticated, and have culminated in an interceptor system that will soon make missile attacks on areas shielded by such systems pointless.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Politics
America’s Tax Confusion
On April 15, nearly 90 percent of American adults filed their income tax returns for the 2013 tax year. And at the end of that day, I finished drinking a glass of truly tremendous bourbon; 130 proof seems appropriate to numb the pain.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured
How To Liberate America From The Poverty Trap That Is Enslaving Us
Instead of deregulation to reduce unnecessary, stifling regulatory burdens and barriers, as both Carter and Reagan did to such fully documented success, Obama regulates mercilessly as if regulation is cost free to the economy, as the most interventionist President in American history.
Environment/Energy · Health Care · Legal Affairs · Liberty · Politics · Regulation
America’s Constitutional Crisis
It falls to the voters themselves to rescue the rule of law and the Constitution from the President Obama’s lawlessness.
Featured · Politics · Speaker Series
Heartland Author Series Feb 11: Tevi Troy – What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched and Obama Tweeted
Join us for a luncheon lecture with author and presidential scholar Tevi Troy, who will talk about his new book, “What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched and Obama Tweeted: 200 Years of Popular Culture in the White House.”
Obama’s State Of The Union Formula For Economic Stagnation
President Obama paints pretty pictures with flowery pro-growth and populist rhetoric. But the results are consistently the opposite of his promises.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
Two and a Half Cheers for Ryan-Murray
Calling the Ryan-Murray budget deal “A Huge Republican Cave-In” is not accurate.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Health Care · Politics
Obama Changes The Subject Away From Obamacare, Whiffs On Income Inequality
Earlier this month, President Obama tried to change the subject from Obamacare by pitching some rhetoric on “equality” to rally his Far Left base. Not much thoughtful or helpful is[…]
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
A Short History of Climate Hysteria
As the pumped-up spectre of climatic catastrophe continues to deflate, Ruper Darwall’s new book makes a handy guide to the conceits, careerism, delusions and blatant misrepresentations that debased the good name of science and set the stage for economic ruin.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
Poland Recognizes the Real Global Warming Agenda
Decades of oppression make Poles wary of being subjugated in name of “climate protection.”
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Liberty · Regulation
Does a Mental Condition Impact Your Ability to Shop? The Government Mandates You Answer
The feds have some questions for you. And the answers are mandatory.
Mike Lee And The GOP’s Lessons From The Godfather
All that’s needed is for the right leaders to step forward who understand the importance of all of this, who aren’t all soft answers or hard-edged knife fighters. Why do we accept the premise that the GOP either needs to be all Fredo or all Sonny?
Featured · Government · Podcast · Politics
Heartland Daily Podcast: America’s Way Back- Part II
As conservatives, we need to be conscious and well-read, and demand that our elected officials be the same.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Taxes
Five Steps for a Larger Economic Pie
The ongoing battles in Washington over the government shutdown and the debt ceiling are merely symptoms of a raging disease wracking the body politic: terminal government obesity.
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