1. Wayne Allyn Root: Small Businessman to
Obama: LIAR!
2. Steve Gill: Will High Gas Prices "Fuel" a Romney Victory?
3. Carl Schramm: An Election about the
Economy Will Really Be About Entrepreneurs
4. Diana West: Obama's Jihad
Alliance
Small Businessman to
Obama: LIAR!
Congressman Joe Wilson got carried away and called
President Obama a liar during a State of the Union address a few years back.
While I would personally never interrupt a major speech by Obama (or any other
politician), it is time to admit that Congressman Wilson was right. Obama is a liar.
He can’t help himself. He’s a lawyer. It’s in his makeup. How do you know a
lawyer is lying? His lips are moving in front of a jury. In a moment I'll
describe how Obama has created a "Hostile Work Environment" for small
businesses. But first let's look at a variety of Obama's "misinformation
episodes."
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Will
High Gas Prices "Fuel" a Romney Victory?
The
average price of a gallon of unleaded gasoline the day President Barack Obama
was inaugurated into office in January 2009 was $1.84. Since May, I have been
trumpeting this fact at gas price rollback events all over the country with a
giant red gas can known as “Gas Can Man” as the centerpiece of over 25
events in battleground states from Florida to Nevada, from Colorado to
Virginia... and, of course, Ohio.
In
recent weeks, the “Pain in the Gas” tour has begun to attract national
attention as others have started using the $1.84 price as a call for action.
Now the Obama team is dealing with an increasingly difficult policy issue in
the waning weeks of the campaign.
Compounding
Obama’s claim that he is for expanded drilling and exploration is the fact that
his own Interior Secretary Ken Salazar recently banned oil drilling in HALF the
23 million acre territory set aside in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska
where drilling is supposed to occur.
As
Gas Can Man continues to “drive” the issue of high gas prices in battleground
states across the country, I can talk about the direct connection between
energy and votes... particularly as our dependence on Middle East oil becomes
an increasingly volatile national security issue as well. [more...]
An Election about the
Economy Will Really Be About Entrepreneurs
For
the first time in our history entrepreneurs are becoming part of the political
furniture. Speakers at both the Republican and Democratic conventions mentioned
small businesses, firms with fewer than 500 employees, endlessly - actually 106
times.
Small
business is an expected mainstay of convention rhetoric. But, the debut of
entrepreneurs as the people who form our new firms is critical because they
were, accurately, described as the people who take risks and create, according
to the Kauffman Foundation, over sixty percent of all new jobs in our economy.
Starting
more new firms is not only the best path to resolving the recession; they are
the principal source of wealth for America's future. In fact, Republican
speakers described the role they play in the economy 13 times while Democrats
did 9 times. Joseph Schumpeter would be smiling that the little guys, the
entrepreneurs, the people who challenge the incumbent firms with their upstart
startups, the causers of all the "creative destruction" that drive
government regulators crazy, the new companies that seem to relish what he
called the "gales" of competition that big companies fear, are
somehow beginning to be seen as the champions they are. Karen Mills, head of
the Small Business Administration, said "America's entrepreneurs are our
greatest asset" during her speech to the Democratic convention. [more...]
Obama's Jihad
Alliance
A
couple of weeks ago, I wrote a column addressing the national scandal that
investigation into the security failures and lies surrounding 'Benghazi-gate'
must also expose. This even larger scandal concerns the fact that throughout
the revolutionary cycle known as Arab Spring, the Obama administration threw in
Uncle Sam’s lot with the bad guys - the “rebels,” the “martyrs,” the Muslim
Brothers, the whole jihad-happy and Sharia-ruling crew in Libya and the wider
Middle East. In so doing, Uncle Sam, more or less, crossed to the "other
side." [more...]