“It would be one thing if all this money we spend on premiums and co-payments and deductibles went directly towards making us healthier and improving the quality of our care. But it doesn’t… Each year, 100,000 Americans die due to medical errors and we lose $100 billion because of prescription drug errors alone.”
- Barack Obama
While [...]
Entries from September 2008
More Government Regulation Leads to Inefficiency
September 23, 2008
Obama’s friend: Kwame Kilpatrick
September 22, 2008
This new ad blasts Obama’s relationship with the criminal mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick. It’s a pretty straight forward ad, and uses Obama’s own words to describe his views on the mayor. It’s worth your 30 seconds.
Obama on energy policy
September 19, 2008
Barack Obama opposes energy exploration in Alaska, and in most of the outercontinental shelf. He voted against building more nuclear power plants and supports a “windfall profits” tax on energy companies.
That is why FreedomWorks has launched a voter education effort to explain his record on energy policy. You can get a free bumper stickers, and [...]
Totalitarian Tactics at FSU
September 18, 2008
Last night, I gave a talk at Florida State University about the book that I co-authored. The talk was sponsored by the student group, the Institute for Conservative Studies (ICS). In preparation for my talk, members of the group put up hundreds of university-approved flyers to advertise the event. The flyers included the SGA logo (which [...]
A Sincere Christian Faith?
September 16, 2008
Barack Obama began his Presidential campaign on a religious footing. He has stressed how he wants to be a different candidate, the candidate of “change” that we have become so accustomed to hearing about. With this idea of “change,” Obama also wanted to distinguish himself from his fellow Democrats and realign the political map. Part [...]
Reaching Out… To Pick Your Pocket…
September 13, 2008
A July 2007 article by the New York Times listed only one bill sponsored by Barack Obama dealing directly with the topic of immigration. SB0680 is that such bill. Co-sponsored by Obama and filed on February 19, 2003 the bill amended the Attorney General Act to create an “Office of Immigrant Assistance” within the Office [...]
Obama talks taxes on the O’Reilly Factor
September 9, 2008
Watch this interesting interview of Barack Obama by Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly. They discuss tax rates, raising the cap on social security taxes and federal government revenue. As I point out in the book, Obama would raise income taxes and raise the cap on social security taxes. This is despite the fact that, as O’Reilly [...]
Is the Traditional Family a “Privatization Scheme”?
September 8, 2008
To provide some background on why it is that those on the far left hold such views about marriage, listen to a self-described “progressive” bring the implicit connection between the expansive state and the deconstruction of marriage out of the shadows. New York University Queer Studies Professor Lisa Duggan critiques the marriage promotion portion of [...]
Barack Obama’s Statist Quest to Reshape the Family
September 5, 2008
As I noted in my previous post, the family is where most Americans believe we ought to start because the family is where we all, in fact, do start. As noted in the recently republished book Family and Civilization, human experience points us in the direction of the family.
Harvard sociologist Carle Zimmerman notes that:
“No problem [...]
Barack Obama Versus the Traditional American Family
September 2, 2008
From my last few posts about Obama’s views on social issues, I pointed out that Obama’s high voltage voting record is obviously shocking. It raises weighty questions like, “why would kindergarteners need ‘sex education’?” “Why would someone allow newborns to be left to die?” and “Why would a politician who identifies as a Christian advocate [...]