http://biggovernment.com Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:37:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you’re the President of the United States or one of his political appointees and you’re ideologically opposed to new oil and natural gas development offshore, what do you do when the public registers its overwhelming support for new drilling in public opinion polls? You dance, delay, and deceive. You speak ... http://biggovernment.com/vhaley/2010/02/09/drillgate-internal-emails-shows-obama-team-lying-to-public/ Frances Fox Piven, honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, can arguably be considered the mother of ACORN.  At least, her ideas and theories set ACORN, and its parent, the National Welfare Rights Organization, onto a path of creating and manipulating crisis situations to further their agenda of a ... http://biggovernment.com/kolson/2010/02/09/frances-fox-piven-thomas-jefferson-would-be-stunned-at-america-today-but-not-for-the-reason-you-think/ Yesterday, President Obama announced his plan to create a new federal agency tasked with climate change. Later that day, the National Weather Service announced that DC was due to receive another 10-20 inches of snow today. (On top of the 2 1/2 feet of snow over the weekend.) Now THAT ... http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/02/09/tuesday-open-thread-climate-change-edition/ Rob Long and Mark Steyn are joined by guests law professor John C. Yoo and Breitbart.com's Andrew Breitbart. Topics covered include Miranda rights for terrorists, a report from the Tea Party convention, the joyless MSM, Al-Qaeda's potential new bomb making strategy that may be particularly problematic for certain parts of ... http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/02/08/podcast-mark-steyn-and-john-yoo-and-rob-long-and-andrew-breitbart-oh-my/ From ABC News: The Obama administration on Monday proposed a new agency to study and report on the changing climate. Also known as global warming, climate change has drawn widespread concern in recent years as temperatures around the world rise, threatening to harm crops, spread disease, increase sea levels, change storm and ... http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/02/08/new-federal-climate-change-agency-forming/ Politicians in Washington have come up with something far more impressive than turning lead into gold or water into wine. Using self-serving budget rules, they can increase the burden of government spending and say they are cutting taxes instead. This bit of legerdemain is made possible, thanks to the convolutions of ... http://biggovernment.com/dmitchell/2010/02/08/political-alchemy-part-i-turning-spending-increases-into-tax-cuts/ From the Associated Press: Spokesman for Rep. John Murtha says the Pennsylvania Democrat has died at 77. ED Note: Rep. Murtha was a close political ally of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He was her choice for Majority Leader, but he was edged out in a caucus-wide vote by Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD). ... http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/02/08/congressman-john-murtha-dead-at-77/ Imam Zaid Shakir came to speak at my school, Claremont McKenna, on December 9th to respond to the “tragedy of Ft. Hood.” Rather than respond to the massacre of American servicemen, Shakir spent the evening indicting the United States – saying “we were born in genocide.” The reason for the ... http://biggovernment.com/cjohnson/2010/02/08/access-to-guns-not-jihad-to-blame-for-ft-hood-says-noted-islamic-scholar/ From The American Spectator: ACORN and other left-wing advocacy groups could be eligible for up to $3.99 billion in federal funding included in the $3.83 trillion fiscal 2011 budget blueprint that President Obama unveiled last week. ACORN and other left-wing advocacy groups could be eligible for up to $3.99 billion in federal ... http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/02/08/show-acorn-the-money/ Slate's Jacob Weisberg came unhinged on Friday and gave the country the finger. "Down with the People!" he screams from Bill Gates lap.  As Jacob sees it, we the people are demanding two mutually exclusive things: premium government services and tax cuts, and when we can't have what we want, we ... http://biggovernment.com/mwarstler/2010/02/08/a-formula-for-real-economic-growth-13915481000000-2/ California has the worst bond rating in the nation, hovering just above junk bond status.  A lower bond rating means higher interest rates when selling bonds – and California already spends $10 billion per year in bond principal and interest repayments. In this, as in many other things, California leads the ... http://biggovernment.com/cdevore/2010/02/08/californias-costly-high-speed-rail-hoax-using-borrowed-money-to-build-a-flawed-train/ Throughout much of 2009, Glenn Beck extensively covered the “Cloward-Piven Strategy” that was first brought into the public domain in a May 1966 article in The Nation magazine.  In the article, Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, two Columbia professors, developed a strategy by which the welfare system could be ... http://biggovernment.com/kolson/2010/02/08/frances-fox-piven-glenn-beck-seeks-foreign-dark-skinned-intellectual-scapegoats/ Net neutrality supporters have long argued that institution of “open internet” rules is critical for job retention and creation.  However, according to some opponents of the proposed policy, a study released on Friday by Entropy Economics undercuts that assertion—just as much discussion in the political world is re-centering on the ... http://biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2010/02/08/study-net-neutrality-wont-increase-jobs/ Today, in 1996, President Clinton signed into law the Communications Decency Act, an attempt by the then-GOP led Congress to regulate content on the Internet. Just over a year earlier, the GOP had won control of Congress on a promise of limited government. File this away for November 3, 2010. http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/02/08/monday-open-thread-internet-regulation-edition/ RIGHT ON--- On Sunday the left went bonkers after they discovered that the TelePrompter-less former Governor Sarah Palin wrote notes on the palm of her left hand for her speech to the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville. The far left absolutely freaked over this non-issue rather than focus ... http://biggovernment.com/jhoft/2010/02/07/you-betcha-palin-campaigns-for-rick-perry-writes-hi-mom-on-her-hand/