French Socialists Defeated
The French Socialist Party took heavy losses in local elections yesterday with national implications for its leader, President Francois Hollande. Only two years into his much ballyhooed presidency, Hollande’s popular support seems to be collapsing all around him. Francois Hollande As BBC News analyst Hugh Schofield points out: “Seen in the More...
Barack Obama’s War Against the Constitution
The U.S. Constitution is a fortress built by the Founders around the American people and is the country’s only defense against the internal destructive forces of evil, Barack Obama and his leftist comrades. To More...
Barack Obama Still Doesn’t Like Us
Last November, this web site published an article titled Why Doesn’t Barack Obama Like Us? Now here we are today, just eight months from the election and it appears the Barack Obama still doesn’t have More...
Swamp Gas: Notes From DC
#1 Smoot-Hawley Redo The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is obligated to review and “score” the financial consequences of any proposed legislation. It came out with a report on H.R. 4105. The title page of More...
The Unbearable Lightness of Sandra Fluke
A red herring named Sandra Fluke floated through the murky waters of Congress last week, lured on by Nancy Pelosi before a mock hearing on the HHS contraception mandate. Miss Fluke’s testimony – as a law student More...
Marxism and Barack Obama
In which philosophical form of government does Barack Obama believe? That has been one of the ongoing debates since he burst upon the national political scene a scant four years ago. Political observers noted he More...
Pregnancy and Other Preventable Diseases
Time was when healthcare prevention was associated with smoke-cessation, dieting and exercise to avoid preventable diseases such as heart attacks, cancer and strokes. With the HHS mandate requiring contraception More...
Game Change
Santorum Victory Changes Everything The question of Why Not Rick? that we asked here at These New Times on January 29 appears to have been answered in a big way by Republican voters in Missouri, Minnesota and More...
CBO Report: OMG!
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is out with its annual report. It’s a blockbuster. This 165 page monster is filled with dozens of charts, graphs and detailed projections. It will be talked about for weeks. More...
Obama Bluffs on Refi?
In his State of the Union speech, the President said: Millions of innocent Americans have seen their home values decline. And while government can’t fix the problem on its own, responsible homeowners shouldn’t More...
