Human Events back issues from January 2009:
Obama's 'Green Dream Team' Is Nightmare
Jan 05, 2009; ... Radicals to Run Energy, Environment Most environmental groups have warmly endorsed Presidentelect Barack Obama's choice of Ken Salazar, a first-term Colorado senator, to be secretary of the Interior. Democrat Salazar wore a cowboy hat and bolo tie to Obama's press conference announcing ...
Detroit Bailout Hurts Everyone Else
Jan 05, 2009; ... Congress voted against using taxpayer dollars to bail out the Big Three automakers. I am disappointed that the Bush Administration has decided to use taxpayer funds allotted to the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to bail out Chrysler and GM. It's all too likely that the criteria set ...
Has Global Cooling Arrived?
Jan 05, 2009; ... Winter officially arrived with the December 21 solstice. But for many Americans, autumn 2008 's final days already felt like deepest, coldest January. New Englanders still lacked electricity after a December 11 ice storm snapped power lines. Up to eight inches of snow struck New Orleans ...
Capital Briefs
Jan 05, 2009; ... * SARAH LEADING LISA: Coincidentally, just a week following Human Events' naming Sarah Palin "Conservative of the Year" (see HE cover story last week on HUMANEVENTS.com), a new survey showed that among Republican voters in Alaska, Palin would easily defeat more moderate GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski ...
I'm Triumphing Over Kwanzaa!
Jan 05, 2009; ... Is it just me, or does Kwanzaa seem to come earlier and earlier each year? This year, I believe my triumph over this synthetic holiday is nearly complete. The only mentions of Kwanzaa I've seen are humorous ones. Most important, for the first time in eight years, President George Bush ...
Prosecution of Blackwater's Raven 23 Begins
Jan 05, 2009; ... Around noon on Sept. 16, 2007, "Raven 23", a tactical support team of Blackwater Worldwide security guards in Iraq, on contract to the State Department, was responding to an attack on another Blackwater convoy transporting a State Department person. As that convoy evacuated the site of the ...
Has President Bush Illegally Used TARP?
Jan 05, 2009; ... The Ghost of New Years Yet to Come brings you to a cold December day in the not-too-distant future. The long-lived Baby Boom generation is now in full retirement. A deep recession has set in. Fiscal crisis looms. Tax revenues are dwindling. With the national debt having climbed ...
Jihad at Fort Dix
Jan 05, 2009; ... According to a recent survey, fewer Americans believe terrorism is a threat now than at any time since Sept. 10, 2001. But if five Muslim men in New Jersey had their way, this threat might loom larger in the public mind. These men face life in prison after being convicted of plotting to enter ...
President Bush: 'We Prevented Numerous Terrorist Attacks'
Jan 05, 2009; ... In his address to the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 17, 2008, President Bush proudly declared, "Since 9/11 there 's not been another terrorist attack on American soil." The threat emerged long before September 11. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the followers of a hateful ...
TOP 10
Jan 05, 2009; ... THE HUMAN EVENTS. The National Conservative Weekly® * Est. 1944 www.HumanEvents.com Top 10 Examples of Wasteful Federal Spending HUMAN EVENTS has chosen these top 10 from the report recently released by Sen. Tom Coburn (R.-Okla.): "2008: Worst Waste of the Year." ...
Prediction for 2009: President Obama to Disappoint
Jan 05, 2009; ... One of my New Year's Resolutions for 2009 is to never ever again believe a politician who makes a bold promise on the campaign trail-even a speaker as gifted as President-elect Barack Obama. Candidate Obama rattled off promise after promise during his speech at the Democrat National Convention ....
Big Government Means Corruption
Jan 05, 2009; ... Beyond Blagojevich Righteous indignation over allegations about Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's "pay to play" brazenness camouflages the corruption inherent in all government. After all, what does it mean to be a politician if not that you promise favors-coerced from the taxpayers-in ...
Best Notable Quotables of 2008
Jan 05, 2009; ... Media Research Center's 21st Annual Awards Here is a selection of winners of the Media Research Center's annual awards for the worst reporting of 2008. For the complete list, go to: www.MRC.org. On March 19, MRC will hold its annual gala in Washington to recognize the winners of the ...
Gizzi on Politics
Jan 05, 2009; ... Hoekstra First Out in 2010 No sooner was the ink dry on his certificate of election last month than conservative Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R.-Mich.) announced he will not seek re-election in 2010. At 55 and in Congress since 1992, Hoekstra · (lifetime American Conservative Union rating: 91%) ...
HumanEvents.com's Top Images of 2008
Jan 05, 2009; ... On Election Day 2008, Rob Hudgins of 50/50 Design created his 400th headline image for HumanEvents.com. To honor Rob's fantastic work, ...
RNC Chairman Candidates' Debate
Jan 05, 2009; ... The candidates for chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) will hold a debate, sponsored by Americans for Tax Reform, on Monday, January 5 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. All six candidates have confirmed they will participate: Saul Anuzis, ...
HOW'S YOUR POLITICAL I.Q.?
Jan 05, 2009; ... 1. Several political observers have noticed the large number of elected officials Barack Obama has named to his Cabinet. How many present or former U.S. senators have been named to the Obama Cabinet? 2. How many U.S. representatives has Obama named to the Cabinet? 3. How many ...
Tom McClintock: 'Mr. California Conservative'
Jan 05, 2009; ... Another "Meet the Member" Feature Days after Republican Tom McClintock was certified the winner of his U.S. House contest by about 1 ,800 votes, the new congressman from California's 4th District (Sacramento) sat down with me for breakfast and political talk. We discussed the ...
Obama Needs Supply-Side Lesson from GOP
Jan 12, 2009; ... Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) is absolutely right to warn against Barack Obama's gigantic stimulus-spending package. McConnell says it "will be the largest spending bill in the history of our country at a time when our national debt is already the largest in history." As a ...
President Bush Gives Exclusive Interview to HUMAN EVENTS
Jan 12, 2009; ... After five years of covering the Bush White House, I finally sat down the afternoon of Tuesday January 6 with George W. Bush for an exclusive interview, one of the last he will give before he leaves office January 20. "Hey, Big John," is how the President welcomed me into the Oval ...
Cheney Strongly Defends Administration's Record
Jan 12, 2009; ... I joined a handful of conservative journalists last week for lunch with Vice President Cheney, his daughter, and members of his staff. For two hours we reviewed his years of service in government and looked ahead. Since Eisenhower there have been five Republican administrations. Dick Cheney has ...
Capital Briefs
Jan 12, 2009; ... * JEB, CHRIS NO GOES IN '08: Two political superstars, one from each major party, ended weeks of speculation by announc- ing they would not run for U.S. Senate seats in 2010. Days after George H.W. Bush totd a national television authence he wanted to see son Jeb run for the Senate from Florida ...
This Is the Downer We've Been Waiting For!
Jan 12, 2009; ... After NBC canceled me "for life" on Monday - until seven or eight hours later when the ban was splashed across the top of The "Drudge Report," forcing a red-faced NBC to withdraw the ban - an NBC insider told the "Drudge Report": "We are just not interested in anyone so highly critical of ...
Why aren't House Republican leaders standing up to Pelosi and Obama?
Jan 12, 2009; ... Barack Obama had hoped to have a $1 trillion economic stimulus bill on the Oval Office desk waiting for his signature on Inauguration Day. He had promised that the bill would pay only for projects that were going to stimulate recovery and create new jobs, and that it would exclude lawmakers' pet ...
How Much Tax Money Will Mayors Get to Change Light Bulbs?
Jan 12, 2009; ... While many ordinary Americans recently wondered what Santa Claus was going to leave for them, many American mayors were wondering how much money President-etect Barack Obama and a Democratic Congress will take from taxpayers to hand over to them. "We're not intending to spend money ...
Why Should Israel Agree to a Ceasefire when Hamas Vows Destruction?
Jan 12, 2009; ... "4We in Europe want a ceasefire as quickly as possible, and . . . everyone understands that time is running against peace. The guns must fall silent." So said French President Nicolas Sarkozy after meeting with the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas. A del- egation from the ...
Obama Taps Rubin Economic Failure Team
Jan 12, 2009; ... Where's the "Change we can believe in"? On both Wall Street and in Congress, the same old crooks and party hacks who succeeded in producing the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression have now ended up with even more power and more control than they had before the ...
Fuzzy Math in Minnesota
Jan 12, 2009; ... "Change" is in the air - yet that air seems full of partisan rancor, and we're not yet out of January. Conservatives need to keep a close eye on Washington policymakers to ensure that liberals don't use the fog of "change" to sneak in a new era of strongarm tactics and massive government ...
Pete Olson: Republican Renaissance Man
Jan 12, 2009; ... "Meet the Member" Republican Pete Olson's capture of Texas's 22nd District last November was a particularly cheering win for GOPers in the Lone Star State and nationally. Not only was the former U.S. Navy pilot and Capitol Hill staffer one of only five Republicans nationally to unseat a ...
Next to Madoff, Social Security and Medicare Are Real Ponzi Schemes
Jan 12, 2009; ... Bernard Madoff, who stands accused of bilking sophisticated investors out of $50 billion, is reported to have told two of his executives that his business was "a giant Ponzi scheme." Perpetrators of Ponzi schemes lead clients to believe their money is invested and that their profits are ...
Clinton Donors Pose Huge Conflict of Interest for Hillary
Jan 12, 2009; ... Now that Bill Clinton has released the list of his 205,000 donors who have given close to $500 million to his library and foundation, it is clear why he resisted releasing the list while his wife was running for President. Compelled by the Obama transition team to make the list public as ...
Gizzi on Politics
Jan 12, 2009; ... Who's Up and Who's Down After RNC Chairman Debate? What moderator Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) dubbed correctly as the "first debate ever" among candidates for the chairmanship Republican National Committee (RNC) concluded the afternoon of Monday January 5. The ...
HOW'S YOUR POLITICAL I.Q.?
Jan 12, 2009; ... 1. Leon Panetto, onetime White House chief of staff and California House member, has just been named head of the CIA. If confirmed, he will be the third former congressman to serve as CIA director. Can you name the other two? 2. There has been great controversy over the appointment of ...
Tony Blankley Makes His Case for American Nationalism
Jan 12, 2009; ... Tony Blankley Makes His Case for American Nationalism American Grit What it Will Take to Survive and Win in the 21 st Century By Tony Blankley Regnery Publishing 205 pages $27.95 BY CYHTHIA GRENIER In his opening paragraph. Tony Blankley sets forth the tenor of his new, admirably ...
Ignore Environmentalist Delusions About California
Jan 19, 2009; ... President-elect Obama wants to base his greening of America on the great policies that California has followed for years. The global- warming crowd embraces that idea, but skepticism is much more in order. California's model is broken: The state is bankrupt and so are its ideas on ...
Eric Holder Not Fit to Be Attorney General
Jan 19, 2009; ... Quote of the Week "Presidents can try to avoid hard decisions and therefore avoid controversy. That's just not my nature." - President Bush, January 12 Last week Rep. Dan Burton (R.lnd.) sent a blistering letter to Senate Judiciary Committee members explaining why Eric ...
How Best to End the Recession
Jan 19, 2009; ... The economy has been in recession for over a year, and it's likely to continue contracting through the first half of 2009-and possibly beyond. Clearly, policymakers need to pursue stimulus policies that work. The centerpiece of an effective stimulus policy should involve two ...
It's Your Turn, President Obama
Jan 19, 2009; ... With Barack Obama ready to take the oath of office and give his inaugural address on Tuesday, January 20, HUMAN EVENTS takes a look back at memorable lines from some from previous inaugural addresses. "It would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent ...
Capital Briefs
Jan 19, 2009; ... VOINOVICH IS NUMBER FOUR: The third Republican senator to announce he is stepping down in 2010 is 72-year-old George Voinovich of Ohio. The former mayor of Cleveland and two-term governor of the Buckeye State announced last week that he will not seek a third term as U.S. senator next year ....
Murder Spree By People Who Refuse to Ask for Directions
Jan 19, 2009; ... In a front-page article on January 2 of this year, the New York Times took a brief respite from its ongoing canonization of Barack Obama and returned to its series on violent crimes committed by returning GIs, or as I call it: "U.S. Military, Psycho Killers." The Treason Times' banner ...
War Bush Is Losing Is on Mexican Border, Not Other Side of Globe
Jan 19, 2009; ... George W. Bush unwittingly highlighted one of the greatest failures of his presidency in an interview with the Dallas Morning News, and then did it again Tuesday when he met with Mexican President Felipe Calderon. The United States, Bush rightly told the Morning News, shares ...
Will GOP Overcome Democratic Economic Stimu-lies?
Jan 19, 2009; ... Congressional Republicans are struggling to devise a strategy to resist the liberals' headlong rush to spend another $1 trillion on an economic stimulus package. Though House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.Calif.) said the stimulus elements should be "timely, temporary and targeted," neither she nor ...
Gaza Brings Jihadist Calls for Genocide Around World
Jan 19, 2009; ... Jihad Watch The mainstream media have taken little notice, but at rallies in America and Europe protesting Israel's actions in Gaza, protesters have more than once declared how happy they would be if the Jews were simply wiped out once and for all. Los Angeles: Muslim ...
Save Our Secret Ballot
Jan 19, 2009; ... Nationwide Effort Under Way When Washington abuses its power, vot- ers can and must repair the damage. Thanks to the 10th Amendment, we have powers to do so. The current threat to eliminate voting by secret ballots in certain elections, so- called "card-check" legislation, is the perfect ...
Bush: The Man The Media Missed
Jan 19, 2009; ... When my editor suggested months ago that I do an "exit interview" with President Bush before he leaves office, my response was: "What's an exit interview?" I thought the term was reserved for employees on their way out of one job and headed for another, not for a two-term President headed into ...
The Last Hurrah: Bush's Farewell to the Press
Jan 19, 2009; ... At precisely 7:30 a.m. last Monday, my colleagues in the White House press corps and I received an e-mail from Press Secretary Dana Perino informing us that George W. Bush would hold his final press conference as President. In what has been the pattern of the Bush press operation for the past ...
An Ominous First Vote Reversal on Lands Bill
Jan 19, 2009; ... Conservative solidarity was in short supply last week as the Senate cast its first vote of the 1 1 1th Congress. President Bush requested another $350 billion in bailout funds, the Senate passed a $12 billion bill to buy more public lands, and debate began over President-elect Obama's request ...
Guilty Exposes Phony Victims Created from Liberal Fantasies
Jan 19, 2009; ... Guilty Exposes Phony Victims Created from Liberal Fantasies Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America by Ann Coulter Crown Forum $27.95, 320 pp. Available at HEBookService. Author and columnist Ann Coulter doesn't disappoint in her latest book, Guilty: Liberal ...
Gizzi on Politics
Jan 19, 2009; ... Post-Bond, What Will Happen To Missouri Senate Seat? Less than a month ago, even the suggestion that Sen. Christopher "Kit" Bond Ql. -Mo.) would not seek a fifth term next year was quickly dismissed by bis fellow Show-Me-State GOPers. As one Republican elected official told me, "Kit's ...
HOW'S YOUR POLITICAL I.Q.?
Jan 19, 2009; ... 1. Recently, the threç living former Presidents, President Bush, and President-elect Obama met at the White House for lunch. When was the last time all living former Presidents and the sitting President met at the White House? 2. Each of the five had been defeated for at least one lower ...
A Life of Public Service: Rep. Glenn Thompson
Jan 19, 2009; ... "Meet the Members " Even Barack Obama, the poster child of community service, should be impressed with newly elected GOP Rep. Glenn Thompson's volunteer credentials. Thompson, a conservative representing Pennsylvania's 5th District, has worked as a health care rehabilitation professional ...
Park Service Must Obey 2nd Amendment
Jan 26, 2009; ... On Jan. 9, 2009, the National Park Service was told to live by the same rules that the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service and the rest of the nation use. On Jan. 10, 2009, the earth rotated. The sun rose. The Constitution still worked. Law-abiding citizens were still, well, ...
For Obama, It's Not We the People, But We the Government
Jan 26, 2009; ... In monarchies, kings and queens use the first person plural. They are "we." Judging from his inaugural address, President Barack Obama may give this practice a modern American liberal twist. He calls big government "we." Obama's speech was a carefully crafted self-contradiction, ...
The Obama Presidency: Here Comes Socialism
Jan 26, 2009; ... The years 2009-2010 will rank with 1913-1914, 1933-1936, 19641965 and 1981-1982 as years that will permanently change our government, politics and lives. Just as the stars were aligned for Wilson, Roosevelt, Johnson and Reagan, they are aligned for Barack Obama. Simply put, we enter his ...
Promises, Promises
Jan 26, 2009; ... Here is a list of some of President Barack Obama's promises from his campaign's Blueprint for Change. Abortion "Obama has been a consistent champion of reproductive choice and will make preserving a women's right to choose under Roe v. Wade a priority as President. Obama also ...
Capital Briefs
Jan 26, 2009; ... * CORNYN HOLDS CLINTON: It was expected that the Senate would confirm Hillary Clinton to be secretary of State by voice vote before Obama's inauguration last week. But because of the objection of Sen. John Comyn (R.-Tex.), that didn't happen. Cornyn said he had further questions about the ...
Liberals Keep Asking Meaningless Questions
Jan 26, 2009; ... It will not be easy for President B. Hussein Obama. More than half the country voted for him, and yet our newspapers are brimming with snippy remarks at every little aspect of his inauguration. Here's a small sampling of the churlishness in just the New York Times: * The American ...
Obama Now Faces Democratic Problems
Jan 26, 2009; ... Liberals in Congress Feel Unconstrained If this were ancient Rome, Barack Obama would be huddled in a temple wondering what went wrong and the Roman Senate would be trying to choose a new Caesar. The crowning of the liberal Sun King ran behind schedule, and that was the best omen for ...
How Will Obama Handle His Abortion Dilemma?
Jan 26, 2009; ... In one of his last acts as President, George Bush declared January 18, the last Sunday he held office, National Sanctity of Human Life Day. In a strong proclamation, he explained, "the most basic duty of government is to protect the life of the innocent." With abortions on the decline and ...
Ten Tax-Hike Threats in the 111th Congress
Jan 26, 2009; ... With the arrival of President Barack Obama at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and strengthened Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, taxpayers will soon be facing a sea-some would say a tidal wave-of changes in tax policy. The National Taxpayers Union (NTU) has compiled the following ...
Steven Chu at Energy and Lisa Jackson at EPA Mean Trouble for Economy
Jan 26, 2009; ... The rest of the world may talk a good game when it comes to ending their use of carbon based energy, but the reality is a completely different story. While the European Union lec- tures us on global warming, Germany is busy building 27 coal-fired plants by 2020 and Italy plans to increase its ...
Jim DeMint's Conservative Stimulus vs. Obama's
Jan 26, 2009; ... Your Inside Report From Capitol Hill President Barack Obama took the oath of office last week (twice, in fact) and prepared the nation for "gathering clouds and raging storms." Obama is spending the early days of his presidency flooding Congress with a so-called "stimulus" plan saturated ...
TOP 10
Jan 26, 2009; ... The National Conservative Weekly® * Est. 1944 www.HumanEvents.com Top 10 Good Things President Bush Did While In Office 1 Kept America safe after Sept. 11, 2001. through the Patriot Act and NSA wiretaps of suspected foreign terrorists. 2 Appointed John Roberts and ...
Obama to 'Reassure' Muslims
Jan 26, 2009; ... Jihad Watch At last the triumphant day has come, and Barack Obama is President of the United States. "To the Muslim world," he said in his Inaugural Address, "we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect." Seeking this new way forward has long been one of the ...
Gizzi on Politics
Jan 26, 2009; ... 'Big John' Back In New Hampshire Feb. 8, 1992: Covering the Salute to Ronald Reagan dinner in Manchester, N. H., I was focused on the maneuverings of the candidates in the Republican presidential primary that year. Backers of George H.W. Bush were trying to turn the event at the Holiday ...