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Obama's Racial Politics

CNS News

by Walter E. Williams

January 31, 2012

There's been a heap of criticism placed upon President Barack Obama's domestic policies that have promoted government intrusion and prolonged our fiscal crisis and his foreign policies that have emboldened our enemies.

Any criticism of Obama pales in comparison with what might be said about the American people who voted him in to the nation's highest office. Obama's presidency represents the first time in our history that a person could have been elected to that office who had long-standing close associations with people who hate our nation. I'm speaking of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor for 20 years, who preached that blacks should sing not "God Bless America," but "God damn America."

Ignorance Exploited

CNS News

by Walter E. Williams

November 8, 2011

Many Wall Street occupiers are echoing the Communist Party USA's call to "Save the nation! Tax corporations! Tax the rich!"

There are other Americans, on both the left and the right - for example, President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner - who call for reductions in corporate taxes. But the University of California, Berkeley's pretend economist Robert Reich disagrees, saying, "The economy needs two whopping corporate tax cuts right now as much as someone with a serious heart condition needs Botox." Let's look at corporate taxes and ask, "Who pays them?" Virginia has a car tax. Does the car pay the tax? In most political jurisdictions, there's a property tax. Does property pay the tax?

Blame Government Handouts for the Financial Mess in U.S. and Europe

CNS News

by Walter E. Williams

September 27, 2011

What's the common thread between Europe's financial mess, particularly among the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain), and the financial mess in the U.S.?

That question could be more easily answered if we asked instead: What's necessary to cure the financial mess in Europe and the U.S.? If European governments and the U.S. Congress ceased the practice of giving people what they have not earned, budgets would be more than balanced. For government to guarantee a person a right to goods and services he has not earned, it must diminish someone else's right to what he has earned, simply because governments have no resources of their very own.

Chick-fil-A Follies

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, III

July 30, 2012

A few responses to my recent column on the Chick-fil-A business are worth sharing with the rest of the class.

The president of Chick-fil-A didn't say anything other than that he believed marriage was between a man and a woman. This happens to be a view codified in federal law as well as the law in over 40 states. Only a minority of states that take a contrary view have done so democratically, none have yet done so by popular vote. This view of marriage is also held by anywhere from 40 percent to a majority of the American people, and by both major party presidential candidates in 2008 (and by the sitting president of the United States as recently as the beginning of May)...

John O'Sullivan Tears Down "You Didn't Build That"

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, III

July 25, 2012

In the ongoing debate over the meaning of "that," John O'Sullivan points out the president's genuinely statist logic.

The much-mocked "Life of Julia" ad also assumes that most of its main character's achievements in life are due to government. It's one thing to say that there is a government role, or that we are all products of an environment larger than ourselves. What Obama and Elizabeth Warren are saying goes well beyond that.

Anti-Gun Media Firing Blanks

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, III

July 24, 2012

If you want a corrective to some of the anti-gun nonsense circulating since the Aurora shootings, there is no better place to start than this well informed piece by Robert VerBruggen.

On whether 1990s-style gun control laws would have prevented the shooter from obtaining weapons: [James Holmes passed a background check - his worst prior infraction was a traffic ticket - and although some of his acquaintances found him "creepy," there is no evidence that he was diagnosed with any mental illness. Further, while it's true that one of Holmes's guns was a so-called "assault weapon" similar to an AR-15, this gun does not differ from standard hunting rifles in most of the important ways. Holmes's rifle fires at a semiautomatic rate - one bullet for each pull of the trigger, unlike a machine gun, which fires continuously when the trigger is held down - and uses .223-caliber ammo. This ammo is frequently found in "varmint rifles"; it is on the small side even for shooting deer.]

It Depends on What the Meaning of 'That' Is

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, III

July 23, 2012

Barack Obama stepped in it with his "you didn't build that" speech, the subject of my column last week. But now people are claiming that he was taken out of context.

One popular reinterpretation is that when Obama says "you didn't build that" he is not referring to the small business he just talked about but the roads and bridges mentioned in the previous sentence. Far from being the obvious antecedent his supporters insist it is, this version would require him to misspeak. But it was the spoken word, not a carefully finished piece of writing. And it isn't quite as absurd as entrepreneurship trutherism. The first problem with this is that it remains an unpersuasive argument. Small business owners pay taxes that help build the roads and bridges just like everyone else. And while everyone benefits from the roads and bridges, not everyone builds small businesses.

Bain vs. You Didn't Build That

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, III

July 18, 2012

Which will exact the highest political cost: Mitt Romney's Bain record and tax returns or Barack Obama's "you didn't do that on your own" speech? That's one of the biggest questions of the presidential campaign to date.

So far there hasn't been much movement in the polls, though the Obama speech is still relatively new compared to the Bain attacks. Jennifer Rubin makes the case that the Bain strategy has failed and Nate Silver wonders if the Romney campaign has overreacted to the charges. But I've already seen strong anecdotal evidence that Obama's speech minimizing personal achievement has created a backlash outside the Eastern corridor, among people who are not usually close followers of the presidential election.

Don't Be 'Nosy' About Fast and Furious

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, III

June 27, 2012

This LZ Granderson piece should have appeared in the Onion, but instead it ran on CNN's website.

He actually compares efforts to get to the bottom of Operation Fast and Furious to the public's desire to know about the "pregnancies and marriages of D-list celebrities."

Are Justices Reading the Same Laws and Constitution?

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, III

June 25, 2012

The majority opinion in the Arizona ruling asserts that once something is a federal prerogative, states should stay out of legislating on the issue even if they are trying to accomplish the same objective as the feds.

At one point, Justice Kennedy cites a precedent that finds, "States may not impose their own punishment for repeat violations of the National Labor Relations Act." Justices Scalia and Thomas sharply dissent from this view. Scalia writes, "It is beyond question that a State may make violation of federal law a violation of state law as well." Thomas writes, "I agree with Justice Scalia that that federal immigration law does not pre-empt any of the challenged provisions of S. B. 1070. "

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