Tag archive for ‘town hall meeting’
Posted by The Foundry on August 18th, 2011 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as deficit, Harry Reid, illinois, internet, iowa, jobs, obama, politics, republic, taxes, town hall meeting
Yesterday, the White House announced that President Obama would once again be giving a “major jobs speech” in September after his Martha’s Vineyard vacation. If spending three years delivering identical speeches created jobs, President Obama would be taking credit for 4% unemployment today. Alas, they do not. In fact, President Obama has given many “major“ speeches and addresses on jobs since taking office. While some news organizations treated this announcement as “breaking news” yesterday, it is unfortunately more of the same from a President who is long on speeches and short … More
Posted by The Foundry on July 7th, 2011 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as epa, hawaii, president obama, town hall meeting
President Obama had no shortage of things to say at yesterday’s Twitter town hall meeting, even if he didn’t always have firm grasp of the facts or reality. A reader ran the numbers: Obama used a total number of 8,519 words in his answers — or roughly 38,703 characters. At 140 characters each, that’s about 276 tweets (excluding space for @replies, links or hashtags). In the course of the conversation, Obama didn’t let the facts get in the way of his answers. Heritage investigative reporter Lachlan Markay noted Obama’s false … More
Posted by The Foundry on July 6th, 2011 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as hawaii, town hall meeting
Moments ago in his Twitter Town Hall chat, President Barack Obama said he “wouldn’t be president if someone hadn’t helped provide some scholarships for my school.” At age ten, President Obama received a scholarship to attend the prestigious Punahou School in Hawaii. President Obama’s remarks today underscore the life-changing significance of school choice—an opportunity most students trapped in failing and often violent public schools never get. (To hear the stories of a few who have had their horizons expanded by the school choice, watch our documentary Let Me Rise.) Sadly, the President … More
Posted by Tenth Amendment on June 5th, 2011 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as arizona, california, colorado, constitution, epa, eric holder, iowa, medical marijuana, new hampshire, nullification, state sovereignty, supreme court, tenth amendment, town hall meeting
Isn’t it time that Governors and state Attorneys General stopped wasting our precious time and money playing these silly legal games, grow a spine, and actually fulfill the oath they took to support and defend the Constitution, including the Tenth Amendment?
Posted by The Foundry on May 19th, 2011 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as deficit, epa, federal spending, medicaid, medicare, social security, town hall meeting
Now that the U.S. hit its $14.3 trillion debt ceiling on May 16 and the doomsday predictions of the financial apocalypse that was going to tank the economy failed to materialize, the question remains: How should Congress respond? Congress has until August 2 to respond. It could raise the debt ceiling without any other policy…
Posted by The Foundry on May 16th, 2011 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as deficit, epa, federal spending, timothy geithner, town hall meeting
The United States today hit an all-time high debt, passing $14 trillion, according to Associated Press reports. And with $45,300 of debt for every man, woman and child in the United States, it’s clear as day that spending is the problem. Yet Washington has yet to come to an agreement on a way forward, either…
Posted by The Foundry on April 21st, 2011 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as california, epa, facebook, medicaid, oil spill, sarah palin, south carolina, town hall meeting
Disco, mood rings and bell-bottom pants are relics of the 1970s relegated to the dustbin of cultural history. But one product of the 70s is still going strong and growing at a rapid rate, despite America’s monstrous fiscal crisis. It’s the Department of Energy (DOE), and in the last 10 years it has seen its…
Posted by The Foundry on March 25th, 2011 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as epa, healthcare, medicaid, medicare, new york, politics, taxes, town hall meeting
Released this past Tuesday, the important new book Why Obamacare Is Wrong for America has gotten noticed by Fox News, NPR, Town Hall, National Review, and readers nationwide, who keep it climbing up the Amazon bestseller charts. The Foundry interviewed Heritage’s Bob Moffit—one of the four co-authors—who reveals how the book came together and why…
Posted by The Foundry on September 22nd, 2010 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as afghanistan, epa, google, national security, new york, town hall meeting
Iran’s bombastic President Ahmadinejad once again has strutted to the U.N. General Assembly meetings in New York to denounce, whine about and threaten the United States, the West, Israel and various international institutions. Soon after arriving, Ahmadinejad told the Associated Press that “the future belongs to Iran” and that the United States “must recognize…
Posted by Shane on October 15th, 2009 | Categorized as In The Media, Video | Tagged as lindsey graham, republic, ron paul, town hall meeting
Ron Paul responds to Lindsey Graham’s following comments at a town hall meeting. During the meeting, protesters responded to Graham’s claim that he would grow the Republican party by shouting, “Ron Paul would grow it,” to which Graham retorted, “We’re not going to be the Ron Paul party.” “We’re not going to be the party…