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Big Brother Loves You, Will Text You to Prove It

May 11, 2011
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Big Brother Loves You, Will Text You to Prove It

By Jim Lakely Worry not, scared Americans. The government bureaucracies that brought you the eternal “Orange Alert” in airports are now stepping up their efforts to protect you from a terrorist attack by plugging into your cell phone: Emergency officials will soon be able to blast critical alerts to anyone with a cell phone in a certain section of the city. If Times Square needs to be evacuated because of a bomb threat or if a hurricane is bearing down on Queens, warnings will be bounced from cell towers. . . . The system — called PLAN or Personal Localized Alerting Network — uses cell phone towers to send messages to everyone currently in a certain area, regardless of whether they’re visiting from out of town or have a phone registered elsewhere. People won’t have to register in advance to receive the alerts. Gotta love the creativity of government busy-bodies, especially when it comes to anagrams like “PLAN.” Seems fitting, but they could have done a lot better. How about PANIC, the Personal Alert Nonsense In Cellphones Or: Plying Asinine Nanny-state Intrusions Casually? ? Or maybe: Prying About, Not Including Consent? The program starts in New York, but will quickly spread nationwide — and will be pretty

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Giving Obama a Mulligan for Playing Golf While Poland Mourns

April 20, 2010
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Giving Obama a Mulligan for Playing Golf While Poland Mourns

Stephen G. Smith, the editor of the reliably conservative Washington Examiner, penned an op-ed piece on Monday defending President Obama’s decision to play golf on Sunday when the erupting volcano in Iceland grounded his planned trip to Poland to attend the funeral of fallen president Lech Kaczynski. You’ll find no greater fan of golf on Earth than me. But I’m not convinced by Smith’s attempt to make light of this kerfuffle. Smith starts out chalking up complaints about Obama’s golf outing on such a dark day to the usual wifely gripes about husbands who can’t resist the siren call of the links. “I am not against a golfing president,” she said. “But what he should have done is gone to church and prayed for the poor Polish president.” Well, yes. Skipping the links on a glorious Sunday in April and going to church would have been the more honorable thing to do — more “presidential” of Obama, the sage of “smart” diplomacy. Yet Smith didn’t write that. Instead, after some light-hearted banter about the world’s most frustrating but rewarding game, Smith noted part of his wife’s frustration was that Obama has played more rounds of golf (32) in his first

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Liberty, Equality, and ‘Barack the Good’

March 30, 2010
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Shelby Steele returns to the pages of the Wall Street Journal with another provocative essay on the Barack Obama Phenomenon. But is freedom really in conflict with "the good"? Or is something else going on?

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The Sad Decline of Peggy Noonan

March 22, 2010
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The Sad Decline of Peggy Noonan

It’s almost getting tiresome to me, this picking on Peggy Noonan for her naivete concerning Barack Obama. Almost. She’s coming around to the truth of Obama’s hard leftism and the phoniness of his HopeyChange campaign rhetoric slower than my quest to lose that extra 20 pounds I’ve been carrying around for five years. At some point, I expect Noonan’s BS meter to finally redline, and read a column in the vital Wall Street Journal in which her great talents are righteously unleashed on Obama. But no matter The One’s transgression, so far, Noonan never takes on the persona of a woman scorned. And scorned she has been. Alas, much of the right side of the blogosphere that still cares about Noonan’s work has been aflutter about her latest column, titled “Now for the Slaughter.” One would think such a headline means Hellfire follows. Alas, all we get is the flicking of a Bic. Noonan begins by accusing the Obama administration of being “bush league” (small “b”) for blowing off a trip to Australia and Indonesia so the president can stay in town to shepherd through bribe and threaten for passage his health care debacle. After Gibbs made the announcement this

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Will Conservatives Endorse Big Government Education?

March 18, 2010
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Will Conservatives Endorse Big Government Education?

At a time when conservatives regularly promote limited government and condemn further encroachment by the federal government into the nation’s health insurance system, the last thing they should be doing is lending support to a program that will increase the government’s role in citizens’ lives. Unfortunately, that is exactly what one noted conservative is doing when it comes to education in America. Thomas B. Fordham Institute President Chester Finn encourages conservatives to follow his lead in endorsing the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI), a set of national education standards developed by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers. CCSSI will be the bridle by which the federal government controls schools that willingly accept Race to the Top Fund sugar. According to the National Association of State Boards of Education the Obama administration is supporting this initiative to develop common standards by allocating part of the billion “Race to the Top” funds towards the common core initiative, including $350 million for the development of common assessments. In pitching CCSSI to conservatives, Finn noted that CCSSI emerged not from the federal government but a voluntary coming together of (most) states, and the states’ decision whether

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Live-blogging Obama’s State of the Union Address

January 26, 2010
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Live-blogging Obama’s State of the Union Address

President Obama will be delivering his first State of the Union address on Wednesday night — and it should be an interesting address in the wake of the Massachusetts Miracle and the collapse of ObamaCare in Congress. Certainly, the speech-writers have been working overtime this week to make the proper (and, hopefully, humblng) adjustments. The Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank peopled by scholars of a libertarian bent, is going to be live-blogging Obama’s speech. It will be using the “Cover it Live” program, which means you can join in the fun with your own comments as you watch the address on TV. Go to InfoTech & Telecom News to get an email reminder of the event, and/or just show up there (or at any of Heartland’s other publication sites) just before the speech starts at 9 p.m. EST, 6 p.m. PST. It should a good time as Heartland scholars show off their wit, wisdom and fact-checking skills.

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UK Entertainers Bemoan Tax Hikes, Portend Grim U.S. Future

May 12, 2009
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UK Entertainers Bemoan Tax Hikes, Portend Grim U.S. Future

    An excellent article at Big Hollywood notes that prominent entertainers in the UK are coming out in opposition to the government’s plan to push the top individual income tax rate over 50 percent. The article by Big Hollywood columnist "Stage Right" quotes Andrew Lloyd Webber from an oped the renowned composer wrote for the Daily Mail pointing out that the contemplated tax hikes would push many of the nation’s most productive people into exile:

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Obama’s Science Project

January 31, 2009
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Obama’s Science Project

            Science has become the real church of the post-Christian West, the authority in all things, including the vast areas of knowledge it is utterly unequipped to handle. And what science means is always defined with an eye toward politics and the hoped-for destruction of Christian civilization, Mike D’Virgilio writes.  

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Obama’s Grand Melodrama

January 22, 2009
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Obama’s Grand Melodrama

            S. T. Karnick identifies the real narrative behind the Obama phenomenon.  

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Obama Featured in Superhero Comic

January 9, 2009
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Obama Featured in Superhero Comic

Now that he has raised the Dead, it only makes sense that President-elect Barack Obama has become the subject of a superhero comic book. The amusingly inane lefties at Marvel Comics are releasing a special issue of Amazing Spider-Man this coming Wednesday, in which Obama and Spider-Man team up to stop a villain called The Chameleon from disrupting the presidential inauguration. USA Today quoted Marvel editor in chief Joe Quesada as saying the decision was nonpartisan and was based on Marvel’s excitement over hearing that Obama once collected Spider-Man comic books: "We do our best to be completely non-partisan and treat presidents with respect," Quesada says. "This is not so much a pro-Obama statement but a tip of the hat to having a Spider-Man fan in the White House." Mm-hmm, right. The utterly cringemaking illustration shown here, along with the other examples linked at the USA Today article, gives the lie to that claim. —S. T. Karnick Comment on this article!

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Obama Raises the Dead!

January 8, 2009
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Obama Raises the Dead!

    President-elect Barack Obama has a true miracle to his credit: raising the Dead. The remaining members of the classic rock group the Grateful Dead have just announced they will tour this year for the first time in half a decade. Band members told Rolling Stone magazine in November that they had resolved their personal and artistic differences after an October concert to benefit Obama. —S. T. Karnick Comment on this article!

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The 2008 Elections: What Did They Mean?

November 11, 2008
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The 2008 Elections: What Did They Mean?

        Economist and Heartland Institute think tank president Joseph Bast looks at what the recent elections say about the basic ideas and attitudes of the American people today.

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