The Bear on Mar 15 2012 | Filed under: Videos
There seems to be a new order of selective outrage and hypocrisy from the Obama Administration. Sandra Fluke got a sympathy phone call from President Obama about Rush’s comments but when it comes to nasty jokes about Sarah Palin and her family Bill Maher’s million dollar donation the White House has become tone deaf. How’s [...]
The Bear on Mar 15 2012 | Filed under: Quote of the Day
“The world runs on individuals pursuing their separate interests. The greatest achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn’t construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn’t revolutionize the automobile industry that way. In the only cases in which the masses have escaped from … grinding poverty … the [...]
The Bear on Mar 15 2012 | Filed under: Culture, Education, Politics
Back in 2001 I wrote a four-part series on “The Subversion of Education in America” and more than a decade later not much has improved. The causes are easily identified. One is federal control and the other is the National Education Association (NEA) which, despite its name, is a union. Governor Chris Christie of New [...]
The Bear on Mar 15 2012 | Filed under: Energy Policy, Politics
Why we must regain our petroleum dominance. President Obama says his energy policy is a great success. In support, Democratic-party stalwart John Podesta trumpets the claim that the United States is now producing more oil than it imports. A recent article in the Bloomberg News goes even further, saying that the U.S. is now a [...]
The Bear on Mar 15 2012 | Filed under: Budget, Culture of Corruption, Health Care, Politics
ObamaCare’s gross cost during the next ten years is expected to nearly double the $940 billion price tag projected in 2009. Phil Klein reports on the Democratic Party’s sketchy math that resulted in the discrepancy: Democrats employed many accounting tricks when they were pushing through the national health care legislation, the most egregious of which [...]
The Bear on Mar 15 2012 | Filed under: Election 2012, Foreign Policy, Middle East, National Security
There are now many self-evident and destabilizing developments: 1) Obama feels more comfortable with Turkey’s Erdogan, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, perhaps even with the Iranian leadership, than with Netanyahu. He likely believes Netanyahu is the least rational, the least predictable in the arena. 2) Obama and many of his advisors have felt for a long [...]
The Bear on Mar 15 2012 | Filed under: Economy
Nearly half of small-business owners name these issues U.S. small-business owners who aren’t hiring — 85% of those surveyed — are most likely to say the reasons they are not doing so include not needing additional employees; worries about weak business conditions, including revenues; cash flow; and the overall U.S. economy. Additionally, nearly half of [...]
The Bear on Mar 15 2012 | Filed under: Videos