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Facebook Twitter Pinterest Reddit Email Tumblr Share The Trump administration is considering eliminating a government agency that is ineffective and inefficient. It would be the fulfillment of a promise to shrink the size of government. The left isn’t taking it well, but they never take anything well. If the administration succeeds at dismantling the Office of Personnel Management, the closure could be a blueprint for shutting other departments down. That is the idea of course. The functions of the agency would be split among three other departments and he will do it via executive order. It is in the final...

A quick Google search using the phrase “Dictators streamline government” popped with more than 41 million hits. Many of those hits include stories on President Obama’s latest talking point to streamline the federal government. It’s easy not to trust this President when he says things like this… or at any time for that matter!

You haven’t heard much about this little doozy in traditional media outlets, mostly because the mainstream media wishes this creature had never been born. They hope they can strangle it by the time you have chance to vote for it in 2012. The Florida legislature has given you, the voter, the chance of a lifetime: You can vote to force future state governments to put a lid on state spending. What a novel idea. But one that causes any self-respecting liberal to drip with anger over the whole notion. Our political leaders should have sense enough to know when enough...

President Obama this week challenged the Tea Party movement to "be specific" and outline its plans. Wow. Is it really possible the prez still doesn't get what's fueling Tea Partiers' white-hot resentment and mounting electoral victories? Because surely they couldn't be clearer about their priorities: * Less spending. * Lower taxes. * Smaller government. "The challenge for the Tea Party movement is to identify specifically: What would you do?" Obama said. "It's not enough to say 'get control of spending.' " We're not sure why not. But it remains that Tea Party (and other) candidates have racked up wins based...

Only about one in five registered voters believe they can trust the government in Washington to do the right thing "just about always" or most of the time, while an overwhelming majority say it will do the right thing only some of the time or never, according a Pew Research Center poll conducted March 11-21. The survey found a strikingly negative view of their government among voters that it attributed to "a perfect storm of conditions associated with distrust of government – a dismal economy, an unhappy public, bitter partisan based backlash, and epic discontent with Congress and elected officials."...

There's a disconnect this election between what voters say they want, and what they're being offered by the candidates of both major political parties. A CNN poll released Oct. 27 shows that most Americans want less government. Yet in recent years both Republican and Democrat leaders nationally and in California – and often despite pledges to do otherwise – aggressively have increased the size of government. According to CNN, 54 percent of those polled "said they thought [government]was trying to do too many things that should be left to individuals and businesses. Only 37 percent said they thought the government...

Lucien Bouchard Joseph Facal Pierre Fortin Robert Lacroix Sylvie Lalande Claude Montmarquette André Pratte Denise Robert Jean-Claude Robert Guy Saint-Pierre Marie Saint Pierre Denise Verreault October 19, 2005 With demographic decline and global competition threatening our future, Québec cannot allow itself to be the republic of the status quo. We are concerned. Concerned for the Québec we love. Concerned for our people, who have weathered many storms but who seem oblivious to the dangers that today threaten its future. In the past 50 years, Québec’s economy has seen unprecedented growth: • in 1961, the average annual income of French-speaking Quebeckers...

The cap on state spending that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants voters to pass in November is emerging as a centerpiece of a nationwide strategy by influential conservatives to slash government spending in state capitals across the country. Although the authors of the California proposal say they were not influenced by out-of-state groups, a loose affiliation of ideologically conservative organizations are hoping that the proposed California "Live Within Our Means Act" will help fuel a national taxpayer revolt they are working to coordinate in more than two dozen other states. "This is the next big thing at the state level," said...

The Republican Party's electoral dominance of the South is due to its willingness to employ "racial politics," according to a University of Maryland professor who also referred to the region as the "Old Confederacy," during remarks Friday at the liberal Take Back America conference in Washington, D.C. Gar Alperovitz, said the Republican Party represents "the dark side," and has been able to exploit southern states because "a radical shift has occurred in racial politics, a radical shift. "It isn't simply the moral issues. It is the fundamental implicit and explicit racial division of the working class" that allows Republican victories...

Fire some government employees Joseph Farah This week, nearly everyone is paying tribute to the late President Ronald Reagan – from Bill Clinton to John Kerry to Jimmy Carter. But words are not enough for the Gipper. If we really want to honor the man of principle, the man who cared deeply about the issues of the day and the man who believed in actions, not just words, we should pay tribute by learning from his example and enacting policies that will strengthen his legacy in American history. I have an idea. Let's fire some federal government employees. Let's not...

The platform is the party's contract with the people." This noble sentiment has been used by both Republicans and Democrats in characterizing their state and national party platforms over the decades. It can become an embarrassing yardstick for any party that lives a double life. Consider President Bush and his Texas State Republican Platform of 2002, which is still in effect. The authors and endorsers of this lengthy document were taking no chances. It says crisply that each "Republican candidate for a public or party office shall be provided a current copy of the party platform at the time of...

GOP, MIA: Taking the road most traveled HAD THERE been any doubts about the direction the Republican Party is headed, they vanished last week when Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie visited New Hampshire. During a cheerful and pleasant meeting (that’s the kind of guy Gillespie is) at The Union Leader offices, the party’s new chairman, energetic and full of vigor, said in no uncertain terms that the days of Reaganesque Republican railings against the expansion of federal government are over. No longer does the Republican Party stand for shrinking the federal government, for scaling back its encroachment into the...

A Conflict of Loyalties David C. Stolinsky, M.D. Tuesday, June 10, 2003 What do Linda Tripp, Elia Kazan and G. Gordon Liddy have in common? At first glance, one would say “nothing.” Tripp “betrayed” her friend Monica Lewinsky by taping their phone conversations. Kazan “named names” to a congressional committee investigating Communists in Hollywood. Liddy “hung tough” and refused to talk about his associates in the Watergate burglary and, as a result, served five years in federal prison. The tape-recording friend, the anti-Communist film director and the conservative talk show host seem an unlikely trio. But they have something important...

WASHINGTON -- Two months after the White House began rolling out its latest budget, the full dimensions of President Bush's new tax and spending plan are finally coming into view, and they are even more sweeping than originally thought. By linking expenditures forced on the nation by the 2001 terrorist attacks with a blizzard of other measures, Bush has produced a proposal that, if enacted, would result in a governmental about-face as far-reaching as those of Ronald Reagan or Lyndon B. Johnson.