Archives: 2008 July

The Washington Post reports that John McCain has made significant gains in several battleground states over the past month. He and Barack Obama are now in dead heats, according to recent Post/Quinnipiac/Wall Street Journal polling, in Colorado, Michigan and Minnesota, while Obama continues to enjoy a sizable lead in Wisconsin.
The Post’s Chris […]

Politics is largely about priorities; so is life, for that matter. Barack Obama’s priorities were put into sharp relief today when he canceled visits to two American military bases in Germany. He still has time, of course, to play the “rock star” in front of cheering multitudes of Germans. Ed Morrissey broke […]

During the run-up to the primaries, Senator Obama did not appear in the Senate to vote on the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment calling on the government to designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist entity and thus suffer the imposition of sanctions. On the day of the vote on the amendment, however, Obama issued a […]

School property tax elimination: What else needs to happen?
By Rep. Sam Rohrer
When I began the fight for school property tax elimination, school taxes were a crushing burden on homeowners. Property taxes were the single biggest cost imposed on many of Pennsylvania’s residents. Today, not only has the property tax burden continued to mount, we have […]

Barack Obama is suddenly interested in winning the war in Afghanistan. At least that’s what he told a bunch of Europeans in Germany. But Barack Obama failed to convene a single hearing as chairman of the Senate Subcommittee with jurisdiction over NATO operations in Afghanistan.
Once again, the rhetoric doesn’t match the reality:
RNC: Ich Bin Ein […]

Let’s see if this makes any sense. Membership in labor unions has been shrinking for the past 50 years. The influence of labor unions has been declining. Wages are falling and jobs are leaving the U.S.
But Big Labor keeps endorsing Democrats. Has it occurred to anyone that the decline of the American labor movement is […]