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Official State of Wisconsin Study Confirms Success of School Choice
This is big news for those who support education reform, school choice, educating kids, etc.
Students attending private schools in Milwaukee with publically funded vouchers showed stronger gains in achievement than their public school counterparts, according to the latest release from a University of Arkansas sponsored, and State of Wisconsin sanctioned, longitudinal study.
University of Arkansas professor [...]
06:24 PM on 02/28/2012 Big Government MiniTuesday: If Romney Loses and if Romney Wins
If Romney wins, it’ll be trumpeted by the establishment Republicans as yet another indication that he is inevitable. But if he were so inevitable, why are Romney and Santorum so close in Romney’s home state? The closeness of these races ought to have Romney worried.
Even if Romney were to win Michigan, he will have only won [...]
05:44 PM on 02/28/2012 Big Government Terrorist Fears Will Force Obama to Send Troops to the Border
America and Iran have been involved in a covert war for many years over Iran?s efforts to geopolitically dominate the Middle East. Fearing the political and financial costs of sustaining protracted military actions against Iran, the Obama Administration has cranked up a covert program of assassinations, cyber-attacks and support for Syrian ?freedom fighters? to [...]
05:04 PM on 02/28/2012 Big Government Teachers Unions Opt for Plastic Sugery on Taxpayers' Dime
The health plan for teachers union members in Buffalo, NY apparently includes liposuction and nose jobs ? and we pay for all of it.
As CNN reports:
The sweet deal that all the 3,400 teachers in Buffalo are eligible to get under one of their insurance plan options, they are billed nothing for any plastic surgery procedure, [...]
05:04 PM on 02/28/2012 Big Government Michael Moore For Santorum? How to Tell If Democrats Are Voting Republican
Earlier today, Michael Moore boasted that all of his friends were planning on voting for Rick Santorum in Operation Hilarity.
“I have to tell you a lot of my Democratic friends will vote for Santorum in something they are calling Operation Hilarity,” Michael Moore told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow earlier today. Operation Hilarity is, according to the [...]
04:24 PM on 02/28/2012 Big Government Company Offers Products to Protect Private Property from Chicago Teachers Union Protests
This isn’t your mother?s teachers union.
The Chicago Teachers Union has brandished its radical political stripes in recent months. It has fully embraced Occupy Chicago, protested side-by-side with Action Now (the reincarnated ACORN) and joined a coalition set to protest the upcoming NATO/G-8 meetings scheduled for May in Chicago.
G-8 protests typically get violent, and we won?t [...]
03:45 PM on 02/28/2012 Big Government Client #9 Fears a Santorum Presidency for His Girls'
Senator Rick Santorum ought to consider this dis-endorsement an in kind contribution from governor-turned john-turned CNN host, Eliot Spitzer:
I, as a father, am absolutely terrified that this guy could become the president of the United States. Three daughters of mine living in his world. It’s not going to happen. This country doesn’t stand for what [...]
03:05 PM on 02/28/2012 Big Government JW Sues Justice Department for More Kagan Docs
The American people deserve to know how deeply involved Elena Kagan and her top deputies were in shaping the Obama administration?s legal defense of Obamacare. The integrity of the courts requires a full airing of those facts before Justice Kagan participates in the historic Obamacare constitutional challenges.
02:24 PM on 02/28/2012 Big Government Obama Admin Further Confuses Their Own Higher Ed Policy
The Republican Presidential candidates have spent an inordinate amount of time on the trail discussing education policy, especially considering fiscal policy seems to be the determining factor in most Americans minds. Why the concentration? Well, for starters, Occupy Wall Street exposed to America the understanding the our children are not being educated when sent to [...]
01:44 PM on 02/28/2012 Big Government Is Mitt Romney a Closet Keynesian?
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On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech and Francis Cianfrocca are joined by Daniel Mitchell to discuss the problem with Europe’s idea of “austerity,” Mitt Romney’s Keynesian beliefs, and why American companies are hoarding so much cash.
We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment [...]
01:04 PM on 02/28/2012 Big Government Obama to Force Military Into ObamaCare Exchanges and Slash Healthcare Benefits
The Obama Administration plans to force active duty service members and veterans off the military?s current health care plan, Tricare, and into ObamaCare?s state-run healthcare exchanges by increasing Tricare premiums between 30 percent to 78 percent the first year and a crushing 94 percent to 345 percent every five years thereafter.
Obama?s plan, which is sparking [...]
12:24 PM on 02/28/2012 Big Government Michigan Labeled To Close to Call'
Nate Silver at Five Thirty Eight
In Michigan, however, the term is appropriate. Rick Santorum, who once trailed Mitt Romney badly in the state, then surged to a clear lead there, then saw Mr. Romney regain his footing and pull back ahead, appears to have some late momentum in the race ? perhaps [...]
11:44 AM on 02/28/2012 Big Government Taxpayer-Supported Planned Parenthood Hands Out GPS Condoms
Steven Ertelt of LifeSiteNews.com reports today that Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest is handing out 55,000 condoms to college students ? but these are special, super-duper condoms, complete with QR codes. What are QR codes? They?re those weird bar-code like labels on products. If you scan them, people can tell where you are. So [...]
10:24 AM on 02/28/2012 Big Government Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows, Dems Cozy Up to Santorum
Joe DiSano is a Democratic strategist from Michigan who is urging Democrats to vote for Rick Santorum. On Monday, he announced that he had a list of 12,000 names ready for robocalls and mass emails on Monday and Tuesday. The 30-second robocall is featured here.
?Democrats can help embarrass Mitt Romney and expose him as the [...]
09:44 AM on 02/28/2012 Big Government Some Leftists Were For the Free Market Before They Were Against It
We can almost always count on the Left?s knee-jerk, snap objection to almost anything that takes place in the free market.
Almost anytime any two or more private individuals or the companies they represent reach a mutually acceptable agreement – or when it comes to virtually any opportunity to engage in unfettered free market practices – [...]
07:44 AM on 02/28/2012 Big Government Tuesday Open Thread: Primary Edition
Today, voters in Michigan and Arizona have their turn in voting on the GOP nominee. Check BG throughout the day and evening for results and analysis.
03:44 AM on 02/28/2012 Big Government No Time Left for You.02:24 AM on 02/28/2012 Big Government Busting the Million Signature Myth-Recallers Filed Fewer than 860k Signatures Against Scott Walker
Officials with the Verify the Recall effort inform me that the total signatures delivered to the Government Accountability Board last month was somewhere between 850 and 860k, nowhere near the 1 million milestone proclaimed by organizers and repeated by the media. This 860 thousand figure is for submitted signatures, before any validation/verification process took place.
12:05 AM on 02/28/2012 Big Government In Bid to Boost Black Homeownership, Rick Santorum Fueled Housing Bubble That Led to Financial Crisis
One of the consistent refrains from the Rick Santorum campaign is that he opposes government bailouts, but as a senator, he supported the something-for-nothing policy most responsible for the housing bubble. Like George W. Bush and other ?compassionate conservatives,? he was naively obsessed with affordable housing for low-income potential home buyers, a mismanaged cause that [...]
10:30 PM on 02/27/2012 Big Government Hard Times for the National Education Association
Over the past year, several states ? including Wisconsin, Tennessee and Idaho ? have passed legislation freeing teachers from the shackles of compulsory union membership.
Now that membership has become voluntary, a growing number of teachers are choosing to quit the union, which is causing hard times for the nation?s largest teachers union.
A new report finds [...]
08:44 PM on 02/27/2012 Big Government Occupy Protesters Assault Police Officers in Sacramento
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – At least two law enforcement officers were injured Monday during a clash with members of the Occupy movement who were at the state Capitol to protest a rally by a pro-white group.
The clash erupted in the afternoon as California Highway Patrol and Sacramento city police officers were escorting about 35 members [...]
07:55 PM on 02/27/2012 Big Government Busting the Million Signature Myth-Recallers Filed Less than 860k Signatures Against Scott Walker
Officials with the Verify the Recall effort inform me that the total signatures delivered to the Government Accountability Board last month was somewhere between 850 and 860k, nowhere near the 1 million milestone proclaimed by organizers and repeated by the media. This 860 thousand figure is for submitted signatures, before any validation/verification process took place.
07:04 PM on 02/27/2012 Big Government Dems Launch Robo-Calls Supporting Santorum in Michigan
Washington (CNN) – It’s no secret that most Democratic strategists consider Mitt Romney the GOP contender who poses the biggest threat to President Obama. It’s also no secret that Michigan, the state where Romney grew up, is a must win for him.
Combine those two dynamics, add in the fact that any registered voter is allowed [...]
06:25 PM on 02/27/2012 Big Government Obama Admin Hooks Up With Gay Activist Who Created Santorum Google Bomb
Dan Savage is one of the more repulsive columnists in America. He writes a sex advice column titled ?Savage Love,? in which he describes in grotesque detail all sorts of fringe sexual practices.
He?s also an anti-religious bigot. Just take a look at his newest column, in which he writes the following about Mormons:
You know how [...]
05:50 PM on 02/27/2012 Big Government Explaining Obama's Lethargic Reaction to High Gas Prices
Some times a picture is worth billions. A new chart, pictured above, puts the lie to the Obama line that he has no effect over gas prices.
Indeed, Sarah Palin’s Facebook pronouncements to the contrary, one of the mistaken assumptions about the Obama administration is that it has no energy policy. On the contrary, there is [...]
05:04 PM on 02/27/2012 Big Government Mitt Romney for Vice President: The Irony, and Necessity, of a Brokered Republican Convention
The great irony of growing demands for a brokered Republican convention is that the conservative base, having shown little overall enthusiasm for any of the four remaining presidential candidates, is asking the very establishment it dislikes to intervene in the contest.
That irony, however, is also an offer to negotiate, to strike a deal that may [...]
03:45 PM on 02/27/2012 Big Government A History of Failed Brokered Conventions in 1924 and 1940
Amid all the chatter of a broken convention, it’s worth looking at their history of producing winning candidates.
The problem is that there has never been a candidate produced by a brokered convention that has gone on to win the presidency, with one possible exception. I grant the possible exception of the election of 1920, which [...]
03:05 PM on 02/27/2012 Big Government Crony Capitalist Epic Systems Gets Rich by Manipulating Stimulus Timeline
Newspapers and bloggers have spilled a lot of real and digital ink in recent months over the Department of Energy?s controversial stimulus-created loan guarantee program, the now-defunct green tech firm Solyndra, and its wealthy benefactor/Obama campaign bundler George Kaiser. Too few are paying attention to the government?s push for widespread health information technology adoption, funded [...]
02:24 PM on 02/27/2012 Big Government Eliot Spitzer and the Left's War Against Wall Street
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On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the return of Eliot Spitzer, the war against Wall Street and the tightening grip of financial regulation.
We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. If [...]
02:24 PM on 02/27/2012 Big Government Is the IRS Attempting to Intimidate Local Tea Parties?
In January and February of this year, the Internal Revenue Service began sending out letters to various local Tea Parties across the country. Mailed from the same Cincinnati, Ohio IRS office, these letters have reached Tea Parties in Virginia, Hawaii, Ohio, and Texas (we are hearing of more daily). There [...]
01:34 PM on 02/27/2012 Big Government Stimulus Success Story' Lays Off 125 Workers and Posts $172 Million in Losses
The latest taxpayer-funded clean energy debacle–A123 Systems, an electric car battery company–” has laid off 125 employees and had a net loss of $172 million through the first three quarters of 2011,” reports the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
In a September 2010 Huffington Post piece, then-Governor of Michigan Jennifer Granholm hailed A123 Systems [...]
12:44 PM on 02/27/2012 Big Government Poll: Romney, Santorum Leading Obama in Swing States
In the poll, Obama lags the two leading Republican rivals in the 12 states likely to determine the outcome of a close race in November:
?Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum tops Obama 50%-45% in the swing states. Nationwide, Santorum’s lead narrows to 49%-46%.
?Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney edges Obama 48%-46% in the swing states. Nationwide, they [...]
11:54 AM on 02/27/2012 Big Government Occupy Revolutionary Scholar' Begins to Openly Discuss Use of Violence
A prominent scholar supporting the Occupy movement is now openly dialoguing about the morality of whether or not violence should be embraced as a political tool.
Kevin Carson, an American scholar of political theory and economy, recently published his latest work Should Occupy Use Violence in a far left-of-center newsletter named counterpunch. Carson stops short of [...]
11:04 AM on 02/27/2012 Big Government 7 Gas Facts Obama Cannot Escape
President Barack Obama cannot escape the following seven gas-related facts:
1. In September 2008, Barack Obama’s”Nobel-prize winning physicist” of an Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, told the Wall Street Journal: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”
2. In 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama admitted that, like his [...]
10:14 AM on 02/27/2012 Big Government Reagan Economists: Newt's Economic Plan Is the Most Pro-Growth
While Mitt Romney has only just come out with a new 20% income tax economic plan, after months of campaigning, Stephen Moore, senior economics writer for the Wall Street Journal, says Newt Gingrich?s plan is indeed the most pro-growth.
According to Mr. Moore, Mr. Gingrich?s economic plan is the boldest plan of the candidates, with a [...]
08:34 AM on 02/27/2012 Big Government Hear No Evil, See No Evil: Former SEC Official Says He Doesn't Think Rep. Bachus Is Guilty of Insider Trading
As the Office of Congressional Ethics begins its investigation into the insider trading allegations leveled by Breitbart editor Peter Schweizer and 60 Minutes against Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL), a former Security and Exchange Commission official who now makes his money consulting individuals and corporations on financial regulatory or enforcement matters [...]
07:44 AM on 02/27/2012 Big Government Monday Open Thread: Term Limit Edition
Today, in 1951, the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, limiting Presidents to 2 terms, is ratified.
03:34 AM on 02/27/2012 Big Government Obama Campaign Tries Intimidation to Boost Fundraising
Despite the herculean efforts of the national media, President Obama’s reelection campaign continues to fall short of its groundbreaking “Hope and Change” campaign in 2008. In January, its fundraising haul actually fell below the level raised in January 2008, when Obama was a first-term Senator running against the Democrat establishment’s favorite candidate. They’ve resorted to [...]
11:24 PM on 02/26/2012 Big Government Wyoming Considers Alternative Currency' In the Event Of Economic Doomsday
The state of Wyoming has passed a bill to study “the feasibility of Wyoming issuing its own alternative currency” and an economic fallout plan in the event of a total U.S. economic collapse.
?I don?t think there?s anyone in this room today [who] would come up here and say that this country is in good [...]
08:04 PM on 02/26/2012 Big Government Democratic Governors Get Thrill Up Their Legs' in Meeting with Obama
Following a closed-door meeting with President Obama on Friday, Connecticut?s Democratic and Working Families Party Governor Dannel Malloy said, ?This was one of the most inspirational meetings I?ve ever attended in the White House.?
Describing the president as ?the leader of the free world,? Gov. Malloy exclaimed that Mr. Obama ?has accomplished things most people didn?t [...]
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