Here are, in my view, interesting, noteworthy columns and articles from the past week that I highly recommend:
Velma Hart: Citizen Journalist
“Shaming the White House press corps, a regular American named Velma Hart recently asked President Barack Obama the toughest question he has heard since being elected to the Oval Office.
Devastating.
The president was taken aback ..”
Top 10 Failures of Obamanomics
“Simply put, candidates who propose job-creating policies and show how their opponent’s policies are killing jobs will win decisively in 2010……so let’s examine the top 10 job-killing policies of the Obama-Pelosi-Reid machine.”
“Let’s examine what the 111th Congress has accomplished so far. There was a $1 trillion stimulus bill that failed to jumpstart the economy. There was a $1 trillion health care overhaul that the public did not want. There was a financial bill that gave huge amounts of power to unelected regulators. And now, for their final trick, the Democrats who run Congress have decided to leave Washington without doing anything to prevent the largest tax increase in history. God only knows what they are planning for an encore.”
House Democrats Pass Bill to Grill School Children about Sexual Preference
“Introduced by Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), H.R. 6109 requires HHS to obtain, retain and analyze sexual identity information from patients who seek healthcare, including children.”
A two-step process to fight poverty
“Everybody wants to make themselves feel better by throwing someone else’s money at the problem, but what many people don’t seem to notice is that it seldom improves the situation. Yes, it will cost money to fight poverty, but there’s a smart way and a dumb way to do it. The dumb way to do it is our current system. Here’s the smart way to do it.”
“Green evangelists believe that recycling our trash is ‘good for the planet’ — that it conserves resources and is more environmentally friendly. But recycling household waste consumes resources, too.”
“These early autumn months are filled with some ‘holidays’ that are worth paying attention to.”
