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Announcing Fred Thompson in Townhall Magazine

Posted by Katie Favazza on Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:24:32 AM
It's official.
For us conservatives it must be about principles and policies that are grounded in freedom, free markets and the rule of law. That’s what I’ve been talking and writing about for the past few years, and that’s what I want to talk write about here on Townhall and in the new Townhall Magazine.

I joined Townhall and am writing exclusive commentaries for Townhall Magazine because I see them elevating the discourse on issues based on these principles -- smaller government, individual liberty, standing for common values that have become all too uncommon, a strong national defense and, most of all, an optimism and belief in America.

You can read the first of the former senator's columns in the June issue of Townhall Magazine.


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On the Farm Bill

Posted by Katie Favazza on Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:05:27 AM
The Farm Bill is likely to pass today.

The Heritage Foundation has a succinct post up, calling the farm bill "everything that is wrong with Washington."

Update: According to The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste,
H.R. 2419 fails in the following ways:
  • It provides little improvement to means testing or payment limits.  Married couples with an adjusted gross income of $1.5 million will still receive subsidies.  The payment limit level of $360,000 was not reduced.
  • It continues to dole out $5.2 billion annually in direct payments to individuals (many of whom are no longer farming) without any regard to prices or income.  These direct payments, 60 percent of which go to the wealthiest 10 percent of recipients, were created in 1996 and were supposed to phase out by 2002.  
  • It creates a new “permanent disaster fund” worth $3.8 billion - a disaster for taxpayers, most farmers, and the environment.  This will encourage planting on disaster-prone land, plus most payments will go to the same producers already receiving the bulk of the direct payments.
  • It increases the support price for sugar, reserves 85 percent of the U.S. market for domestic producers and creates a new sugar ethanol program.  The Congressional Budget Office estimates that this new program will cost taxpayers $1.3 billion over ten years, although the real cost is likely to exceed $4 billion.  The consumer costs of the sugar program will exceed $2 billion annually.
  • It adds earmarks such as $5 million for grants to broadcasting systems inserted by Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), $3 million for Delta Health Alliance Grants inserted by Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), and $1 million for the National Sheep and Goat Industry Improvement Center inserted by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.).




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McCaskill as VP?

Posted by Katie Favazza on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:42:56 PM
I'm on a roll with Missouri-themed posts today, and not about to stop.

Sen. McCaskill as VP for Obama? Seriously?

McCaskill herself might have the best response to the idea. Click here to read it.
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Obama's Education Plans Approved by 9-year-olds Everywhere

Posted by Katie Favazza on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:30:02 PM
Oh good.

When 9-year-old Aleshia Glastetter got her turn to ask U.S. Sen. Barack Obama a question Tuesday, she was a little nervous about how he would answer.

"What are you going to do for the public schools?" the fourth-grade student at Blanchard Elementary School asked.

Before answering, Obama asked her age, and noted that he has a daughter, Malia Ann, who is also 9. He then began describing a plan for lifelong learning, expanded early childhood education, higher pay for teachers, more after-school programs and college tuition credits earned through community service work.

That all sounded pretty good, Aleshia said afterward. She was worried, she said, that he would prescribe more homework.

"I was worried because when my whole fourth grade got to go to Jefferson City to meet Sen. Crowell, he asked us a question if the whole fourth grade wants to do five hours of homework," she said.

For more on Obama's education ideas, click here.



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Obama Cannot Win Missouri

Posted by Katie Favazza on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:50:32 AM
Missouri's Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder has been very critical of Sen. Obama this week:
"It is my suspicion that the New York Times has concluded that a liberal like Barack Obama cannot win Missouri, and from where many of us in Southeast Missouri are sitting, they are probably right."
As Missouri goes, so goes the nation. (See here and here.) And thank goodness for that.
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Show Me the Insults

Posted by Katie Favazza on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:28:06 AM
The Missouri GOP had no qualms about insulting Sen. Obama when he strolled into the Show Me State this week.

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