By Ron Meyer

Published by Human Events and The Daily Caller

As November approaches, the beltway wonders if the Republicans will produce a new “Contract with America.” How about this?  Adopt the Constitution as the platform.

Aviation innovator Kelly Johnson reminded us all to KISS – “keep it simple, stupid.”

Every American loves freedom, liberty, and the Constitution. Why come up with new packaging for the same brilliant ideas embedded in our founding document? No proposal the RNC develops can ever be as popular as the Constitution.

Republicans, being supposed conservatives, have nothing left to conserve but the Constitution. We can’t endorse the big government policies of the last 10 years – both the Bush and Obama years. In this age of bailouts and trillion-dollar deficits, America craves limited government.

Coincidentally, the Constitution is the original mandate for limited government.

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By Ron Meyer

Published by The Daily Caller

How to mask any failed policy: claim we would be worse off without it.

Despite the terrible job numbers, the president began his summer recovery tour boasting about the rampant success – cough! – of the stimulus bill. Building on this delusion, he claimed that unemployment could have been much worse, 10,000% or some arbitrary number, without the Recovery Act.

Obama needs to fire his economists. Christina Romer, his leading economic advisor, predicted unemployment wouldn’t go over 8% once the stimulus bill passed. Fail.

Out of this same brilliance arose another ingenious idea. Private sector jobs – obviously not stimulated by massive government spending – continue precipitating from the economy. Solution: spend $2 billion to create green 5,100 jobs.

Even for Obama, spending $400,000 per created job ought to be embarrassing;
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By Ron Meyer

Published by Human Events

“They cling to guns or religion… as a way to explain their frustrations.” — Barack Obama, 2008

20 blocks away from the Supreme Court, the lefty radicals inhabiting the offices at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. received a clear message: don’t even think about touching America’s guns.

Last week, the Supreme Court’s ruling overturned Mayor Richard Daley’s tyrannical handgun ban, but more subtly, these justices assembled a significant political barrier between the administration and any new gun restrictions.

Ever since the 2008 election, Americans clung tighter to their guns. Fear of  Obama’s anti-gun stances sent gun and ammunition sales skyrocketing. McDonald v. Chicago finally assuages these concerns, and gun owners everywhere ought to breathe a small sigh of relief.

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By Ron Meyer

Published by The Daily Caller

The saying goes: “Those who can, do; those that can’t, teach.” Either that, or they become the President or a Supreme Court justice.

Our Professor-in-Chief nominated fellow ex-professor Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court—thus giving another academic a shot to swing our country to the left.

Ever since Obama arrived at the White House, he’s been appointing his old academic friends to high places. It’s not strange for presidential administrations to have a revolving door with Ivy League universities, but this administration’s door is spinning off its hinges.

Like Obama, Kagan never made it big in the economic world. They earned names for themselves by being blessed and selected by the self-aggrandizing academics who fill our “best” schools. Even within the Obama Administration, you can connect the dots in Kagan’s rise to power.