Student Loan Crisis Looms, Congressional Dems Dismiss Ryan Plan’s Solutions

The recently-released budget plan from House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) states that “the decisions of colleges and universities to raise their prices would have been constrained if the federal government had not stepped in so often to subsidize rising tuitions.”

Paul Ryan offers this solution, among others: as opposed to offering even more in federal student aid as President Obama would like, let’s cut $9.5 billion in discretionary funding from the Department of Education.

This is a good, but tiny, first step.

The second step is completely unfeasible: make the Department of Education operate in the realm of economic reality.

By /// March 22, 2012

#TCOT Tuesday: @RBPundit

General George Patton once said “Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.”

Follow @RBPundit on Twitter for one day and you see this quote personified.

When asked what he thinks the greatest threat to the conservative movement is he said, “Apathy. This idea that you don’t need to confront Leftists and their lies at every turn.”

And confront he does.

He has practically made a job of calling out lies from the left, not only on Twitter but also by contributing to conservative sites like Big Journalism, The Right Sphere and Misfit Politics.

By /// March 20, 2012

Despite Deathblow Losses In MS and AL, Gingrich Vows To Fight On

The biggest story of Tuesday night is Rick Santorum winning both Alabama and Mississippi. Polls leading up to the Alabama primary showed it would be a tight race between Santorum, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, although Gingrich was a slight favorite. Santorum’s wins were not necessarily a huge shock, but an upset all the same.

Santorum took 34.5 percent of the Alabama vote, leading Newt Gingrich at 29.3 percent and Mitt Romney at 29 percent.

The surprise came when Santorum garnered 32.9 percent of the vote in Mississippi, beating heavy favorite Gingrich by 1.6 percent. This effectively dealt the deathblow to the already miniscule chance Newt Gingrich had to make a run at being the conservative alternate to Mitt Romney…again.

By /// March 14, 2012

Who is Professor Derrick Bell?

A recent video released by Big Government reveals then Harvard Law Professor Barack Obama declaring before a crowd of protesters, “Open up your hearts and your minds to the words of professor Derrick Bell.”

So what are the words of Derrick Bell? What did this man believe that so influenced President Obama?

It can be summed up with Derrick Bell’s life motto: “I live to harass white people.”

The preface at the beginning of his book, Faces At The Bottom Of the Well, further explains his beliefs about race and society.

By /// March 8, 2012

Georgia for Gingrich

Former Georgia congressman and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has won the primary in his home state – Georgia.

Gingrich, who won the primary with 47% of the vote, had been leading in Georgia polls since the race began and had a commanding 20 percent lead going into the primary, according to Real Clear Politics averages.

Mitt Romney, Gingrich’s closest contender, received roughly 25% and Rick Santorum, despite a surge earlier in the month, won roughly 20% of the vote. Ron Paul trailed with a mere 6.5%.

By /// March 7, 2012

5 Reasons You Should Vote Newt in the Republican Primary

1. He is the torchbearer of the Reagan Revolution

Gingirch is often named one of the three most influential politicians in modern American conservatism after Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan.

We know Gingrich was one of Reagan’s young lieutenants during the Reagan Revolution. It is true Gingrich complained to Reagan during the 80s about many goals he felt were left unaccomplished. However, Reagan biographer Stephen Hayward wrote in The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution that during once such instance, ‘Reagan put his arm around the young Georgia Congressman and said in his typically gentle fashion, “Well, some things you’re just going to have to do after I’m gone.” ’

*This article is part one of an eight part series on the Top 5 Reasons to Vote For and Against the four remaining presidential candidates*

By /// February 29, 2012

Romney’s Inadequately Feigned Conservatism

Governor Mitt Romney has reversed course in the last decade on his largely liberal social stances. But, to this day he proposes economic polices which can hardly be considered fiscally conservative.

Some of the central tenets of fiscal conservatism are lower taxes, free trade and deregulation.

Romney’s current tax plan is relatively unchanged from President Obama’s. The only major differences between the plans are the elimination of the death tax, a drop in the corporate tax rate to 25 percent and a permanent extension of the Bush tax cuts. Romney’s entire plan has been described by the Wall Street Journal as “modest.”

By /// February 22, 2012

Comparison of Romney’s new tax plan with Gingrich’s and Santorum’s plans

Mitt Romney’s revamped tax plan was released today. I have summarized it here and did a comparison to Rick Sanoturm and Newt Gingrich’s plans. In addition to the new rates, Romney piggybacks on Santorum’s manufacturing push by strengthening and making permanent the R&D tax credit for manufacturers and innovators. Let us know what you think.

By /// February 22, 2012