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2009 Newsletter Archive

  • The tax-and-spend health care plan
    October 9, 2009
    Earlier this week, the Congressional Budget Office released its preliminary cost estimate for the health plan put forward by Senator Max Baucus (D-MT). The plan would cost $829 billion over ten years but still reduce the deficit by $81 billion.
  • Moving forward in Afghanistan
    October 6, 2009
    Last Saturday, eight American servicemen and two Afghan policemen were killed in a terrorist assault in Afghanistan
  • What to do about jobs
    October 2, 2009
    Unemployment rose to 9.8 percent last month, the government reported today. This is the highest level since June 1983 and comes after President Obama and his Congressional allies enacted massive spending bills intended to prevent this very scenario.
  • Time to get tough with Iran
    September 29, 2009
    On Sunday, Iran began a series of ballistic missile tests, including the successful launch of long-range missiles capable of striking Israel, U.S. military bases in the Middle East, and parts of Europe.
  • America remains split on health care
    September 24, 2009
    Last week, President Obama summoned both chambers of Congress to deliver his 29th health care speech. Proponents of big-government health care were hopeful that this address would be the turning point of the debate, striking down, once and for all, conservative arguments against the plan and winning over the American people.
  • Obama cuts missile defense
    September 17, 2009
    The Obama administration intends to cut key components of America’s missile defense shield, it has been revealed. Plans to install missile interceptors in Poland and a tracking station in the Czech Republic have been called off, apparently in an effort to win concessions from Russia.
  • Obama’s health care speech
    September 10, 2009
    Last night, President Obama welcomed legislators back to Washington by addressing a joint session of Congress on his grand plan to remake American health care.
  • Obamacare’s five flaws
    September 2, 2009
    There is little disagreement among liberals and conservatives that America’s current health care system needs serious reform. But the Left’s plan is seriously flawed.
  • The White House vs. national security
    August 27, 2009
    On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder appointed veteran federal prosecutor John Durham to investigate nearly a dozen CIA interrogators and contractors suspected of abusing terrorism suspects in 2002 and 2003.
  • Progress in Afghanistan
    August 25, 2009
    Last Thursday, war-torn Afghanistan held a presidential election. Its outcome will weigh heavily on America’s efforts to defeat the Taliban terrorists.

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