Terence Jeffrey from Creators Syndicate

The Light Bulb Liars for 07/08/2009

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

What if in 2025 a husband and wife decide they want to use old-fashioned incandescent bulbs in the sanctuary of their home? Will the light-bulb left defend their right to privacy and freedom of choice?

Don't count on it. Many Americans may not know it yet, but the federal government has already effectively banned the type of light bulb most of us use today.

In 2007, President Bush ...

Updated: Wed Jul 08, 2009

How Senator Mikulski Slipped an Abortion Mandate into the Health Care Bill for 07/15/2009

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

At a committee hearing last week, Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland provided a classic example of a morally bankrupt legislator seeking to insidiously force Americans to cooperate with and fund an objectively evil cause.

On Thursday, July 9, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee met to consider amendments to the legislation it is drafting to rearrange the ...

Updated: Wed Jul 15, 2009

Obama Wants to Redistribute Health, Too for 07/22/2009

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

"I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody," then-candidate Barack Obama famously told Joe "the Plumber" Wurzelbacher when campaigning in Ohio last fall.

At about the same time Obama was revealing this redistributionist vision for wealth, he was also presenting a redistributionist vision for health and health care — but with far less pub ...

Updated: Wed Jul 22, 2009

When Is a Human a 'Human Being'? Ask the White House Science Adviser for 07/29/2009

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Last August, Pastor Rick Warren stumped then-Sen. Barack Obama with a seemingly simple question.

"At what point," asked Warren, "does a baby get human rights, in your view?"

"Well, I think that whether you're looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade,& ...

Updated: Wed Jul 29, 2009

The Global Redistributionist at Obama's Left Hand for 08/05/2009

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Does President Barack Obama believe economic and population growth ought to be stopped because they imperil the planet and that wealth should be redistributed both within the United States and among nations? Or does he think such a view is ludicrous?

He does not think it is ludicrous; a man who has promoted zero growth and global wealth redistribution for years is now one of Obama's top ...

Updated: Wed Aug 05, 2009

Who's Un-American? for 08/12/2009

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

It was Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009. Congress was planning to vote the next day on a so-called "stimulus" bill anticipated to cost $787 billion. The final text of the bill had not been published, so no one knew exactly what it would authorize the government to do.

Ryan Byrnes and Edwin Mora of CNSNews.com went to the Capitol that day to ask representatives and senators a simple ques ...

Updated: Wed Aug 12, 2009

Obamacare Puts Families Making $192,920 on Welfare for 08/19/2009

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The current debate over whether the national health care plan being developed in Congress should or should not include a so-called "public option" — a health insurance plan set up by the government to compete with private health insurance providers — misses the point.

In reality, the entirety of the congressional health care plan is a "public option." It i ...

Updated: Wed Aug 19, 2009

Blowing Smoke at Terrorists for 08/26/2009

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri, according to the 9-11 commission report, was the mastermind of the Oct. 12, 2000, attack on the U.S.S. Cole that killed 17 U.S. sailors.

Nashiri was also the target of an "unauthorized" CIA interrogation technique (that had not been legally vetted by the Justice Department) that is described in a May 7, 2004, CIA inspector general's report that was part ...

Updated: Wed Aug 26, 2009

Homeland Security's Goal: Allow 70 percent of Bad Guys through Ports of Entry for 09/02/2009

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

In fiscal 2008, U.S. Border Patrol officers working at checkpoints that are typically set up along roads and highways 25 to 100 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border stopped three people "who were identified as persons linked to terrorism," according to information provided by the Border Patrol to the Government Accountability Office.

"In addition," says a GAO report ...

Updated: Wed Sep 02, 2009

U.S. Won't Secure a Single Additional Mile of Border in 2010 for 09/09/2009

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is planning to move several hundred Border Patrol agents away from the U.S.-Mexico border and will not secure a single additional mile of the U.S. border in fiscal 2010, according to the department's annual performance report.

The document — "Department of Homeland Security Annual Performance Report: Fiscal Years 2008-2010" — ...

Updated: Wed Sep 09, 2009

It's Not the Public Option, It's the Public Subsidy for 09/16/2009

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

In the three days following President Obama's speech to Congress pitching his proposed makeover of the U.S. health care system, the Washington Post-ABC News poll asked this question: "Overall, given what you know about them, would you say you support or oppose the proposed changes to the health care system being developed by Congress and the Obama administration?

Now, as recently as ...

Updated: Wed Sep 16, 2009

Border Patrol Will Increase Goal for Miles of Border Secured for 09/23/2009

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the agency in the Department of Homeland Security that is responsible for securing the nation's land borders, says it will increase its goal for the number of border miles it will have under "effective control" in fiscal year 2010, CBP Director of Media Relations Lloyd Easterling told me this week.

The goal will be increased from the previous ...

Updated: Wed Sep 23, 2009

Should Government Have E-Record of Every Woman Who's Had an Abortion? for 09/30/2009

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Should doctors and hospitals be required by the federal government to maintain a national network of electronic health records for every individual in America that indicates, for example, whether that individual has had an abortion, a sexually transmitted disease, a mental illness or a drug problem?

Such a system has already been mandated by the stimulus law enacted in February, and poli ...

Updated: Wed Sep 30, 2009

Not a Death Panel, a Death Mandate for 10/07/2009

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

If you are someone who believes killing unborn children is a right that should be legally protected and made available to all pregnant women, and that the government should eventually take over the U.S. health care system, then you must believe that the government should get into the business of killing unborn babies.

And if you believe that, then you believe that the law must compel cer ...

Updated: Wed Oct 07, 2009

You Will Get Health Insurance at DMV -- Literally (It's in the Bill) for 10/14/2009

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The most revelatory passage in the so-called "plain English" version of the health care bill that the Senate Finance Committee approved on Tuesday (without ever drafting the actual legislative language) says that in the future Americans will be offered the convenience of getting their health insurance at the Department of Motor Vehicles.

This is no joke. If this bill becomes la ...

Updated: Wed Oct 14, 2009

Can Obama and Congress Order You to Buy Broccoli? for 10/21/2009

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Can President Barack Obama and Congress enact legislation that orders Americans to buy broccoli? If so, where did they get that authority? What provision in the Constitution empowers the federal government to order an individual to buy a product he does not want?

This is not a question about nutrition. It is not a question about whether broccoli is good for you or about the relative meri ...

Updated: Wed Oct 21, 2009

Bravest Congressman is Calling Obama's Bluff for 10/28/2009

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The bravest member of the House of Representatives, Democrat Bart Stupak of Michigan, is calling President Barack Obama's bluff on the question of federal funding of abortion in the health care bill.

Like other members, Stupak was sitting in the House chamber on Sept. 9 when Obama delivered a nationally televised address to a joint session of Congress urging passage of the bill.

I ...

Updated: Wed Oct 28, 2009

The Last Unsubsidized American for 11/04/2009

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Pity the parents who have two children and earn $89,000 per year. They are members of America's last true victim class — the unsubsidized ones.

These are the Americans who pay for every thing the federal government does but receive in return only those general benefits that derive from the few federal activities that actually serve the common good — such as incarcerating terr ...

Updated: Wed Nov 04, 2009

Pelosi's New Payroll Tax: A Whip for Socialized Medicine for 11/11/2009

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Rep. Joe Barton of Texas, ranking Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee, set out a startling scenario in floor debate Saturday before the House approved the health care bill pushed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The bill would slap an 8 percent tax on the payrolls of employers who do not provide health insurance to their workers and pay at least 65 percent of the premiums for an empl ...

Updated: Wed Nov 11, 2009

Trying KSM in Civilian Court: Inconsistent, Indefensible, Inexplicable for 11/18/2009

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in a federal civilian court is inconsistent, indefensible and inexplicable.

It is inconsistent with Holder's own decision to try Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri in a military commission. It is indefensible in light of the unmistakable intentions of the Framers of the Constitution. It is inexplicable by any prudential analysis ...

Updated: Wed Nov 18, 2009