http://www.gopusa.com Conservative news, information, and commentary Copyright 2010 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:02:35 EST http://www.gopusa.com/images/gopusa_logo_sm.gif http://www.gopusa.com http://www.gopusa.com/news/2010/february/0208_tea_party1.shtml Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:58:46 EST NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The "tea party" activists all agree: Government is too big. Spending is out of control. Individual freedom is at risk. And President Barack Obama's policies are making it all worse. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2010/february/0208_palin_bid.shtml Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:58:46 EST WASHINGTON (AP) - Sarah Palin says it would be "absurd" for her not to consider running for president in 2012. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2010/february/0208_brennan_terror1.shtml Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:58:46 EST WASHINGTON (AP) - An exasperated White House newly committed to preaching partisan peace slammed Republicans for playing politics on national security and making ignorant allegations about the investigation into the Christmas airliner plot. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2010/february/0208_health_talks1.shtml Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:58:46 EST WASHINGTON (AP) - In the first major step to revive his health care agenda after his party's loss of a filibuster-proof Senate majority, President Barack Obama on Sunday invited Republican and Democratic leaders to discuss possible compromises in a televised gathering later this month. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2010/february/0208_palin_perry1.shtml Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:58:46 EST CYPRESS, Texas (AP) -- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin stumped for Gov. Rick Perry at a rally Sunday in suburban Houston, adding some national Republican star power to Perry's re-election campaign. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2010/february/0208_clinton_health1.shtml Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:58:46 EST WASHINGTON (AP) - Shock and awe. That's what survivors of the Clinton-era health care collapse are feeling as President Barack Obama's overhaul legislation wobbles in Congress. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2010/february/0208_ny_trial.shtml Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:58:46 EST WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama said Sunday he has not ruled out a New York federal court trial for Sept. 11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, but he was taking into account the objections of the city's mayor and police commissioner. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2010/february/0208_glum_dems1.shtml Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:58:46 EST WASHINGTON (AP) - Just a year after celebrating Barack Obama's inauguration, despondent Democrats on Saturday heard from their party leader who urged optimism in the face of Republicans' strong challenge to their congressional dominance. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2010/february/0208_alito1.shtml Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:58:46 EST WASHINGTON (AP) -- Still wonder exactly why Justice Samuel Alito shook his head and mouthed the words "not true" during President Barack Obama's State of the Union address? He objected to the president's saying the ruling reversed a century of law. news http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/mbarone/2010/mb_02081.shtml Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:02:35 EST By Michael Barone -- Growing up in Michigan in the heyday of the United Auto Workers, I long assumed that labor unions were part of the natural order of things. That's no longer clear. Last month, the Labor Department reported that private-sector unions lost 834,000 members last year and now represent only 7.2 percent of private-sector employees. That's down from the all-time peak of 36 percent in 1953-54. commentary http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/dpatton/2010/dp_02081.shtml Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:02:35 EST By Doug Patton -- Barack Obama loves to be compared to Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt. Abraham Lincoln he definitely is not, but the FDR analogy is apt. In her superb book about the Great Depression, "The Forgotten Man," Amity Schlaes describes the almost schizophrenic way in which our 32nd president governed the nation for the first eight of his twelve long years in office. commentary http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/hsherline/2010/hrs_02081.shtml Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:02:35 EST By Harris R. Sherline -- When is a limit not a limit? When Congress says so, that's when. Congress recently increased the U.S. debt ceiling by $1.9 TRILLION to a total of over $14 TRILLION. So what? Who cares? commentary http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/hlamb/2010/hl_02081.shtml Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:02:35 EST By Henry Lamb -- Everyone agrees that we should reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Everyone agrees that we need to increase American jobs. Everyone, except perhaps the President and his minions in the majority, agrees that the government cannot afford to subsidize either of these goals. commentary http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/sparker/2010/sp_02081.shtml Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:02:35 EST By Star Parker -- Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said recently, "Our K-12 agenda can be summed up in one word: reform." If only it were true. But what Duncan calls reform is indeed putting lipstick on a pig. In this case, the pig is Washington's never changing formula for solving everything: spending ever-increasing sums of taxpayer's money. commentary