Introducing … this week’s roundup

Authored: April 19th, 2010 @ 9:44 PM

Those of you who come to the Rice-Scott BPOU meetings already know Stephen Kallestad as one of the leading thinkers in the party.  His insights and understanding of political issues makes him a very good friend of liberty, and we are happy to bring his editorial round up of recent stories to you.

Stephen writes a brief intro teaser and provides the links so you can follow up with the full story.  Enjoy these gems!

Is it going to take a new generation of politician to seriously look at entitlement reform?  Or are we just going to have to wait for the whole house-of-cards to come tumbling down.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/09/AR2010040904000.html

Remember when Nancy Pelosi said Congress needed to pass ObamaCare so that people can find out what’s in it?  Well the NY Times reports that Congress may have accidentally cancelled their own insurance.  LOL at the justice of this!!!! http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/us/politics/13health.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

If you plan to retire on your private pension, because Social Security will be gone before you try to draw on it, maybe you should think again. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/5504137/Argentina_seizes_pension_funds_to_pay_debts_Whos_next/

There are those Republicans that thought George Bush was a great President and there are those who found him wanting.  It looks like all Republicans and a large number of Independents, regardless of what they think of him, think him better than Obama. http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/92141-poll-46-want-bush-back
A really interesting article on the Tea Party movement. They did extensive polling to find out exactly who these people are. What they found sure doesn’t sound like the characterization I’ve seen anywhere in the media, except maybe the Economist magazine. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20002529-503544.html?tag=pop
My favorite magazine The Economist say, don’t get too excited about “the recovery.”  http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2010/04/recovery_0

What’s happening to U.S.-Israeli relations http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=530422

The main stream media is trying to paint the Tea Party movement as a bunch of radicals!  Maybe we need more radicals, try these on for size.  http://pajamasmedia.com/ejectejecteject/2010/04/13/reasonable-men/

…and why wouldn’t they want to reform this?  http://thehill.com/homenews/house/92377-few-members-file-own-returns


The Swiss have something nice to say about a Republican Congressman http://www.thedailybell.com/971/Ron-Paul-Ties%20Obama%20in%20Polls-US-Polarization-Grows.html