Today, the Obama Administration released its $3.76 trillion budget for 2011.  The budget’s ugliest features are a $2 trillion tax increase on upper-income taxpayers and businesses, and a $1.56 trillion deficit. This new abomination of tax-spend-borrow waste is less of an actual budget than it is the Christmas list of a spoiled brat.

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Despite the public outrage with and spectacular failure of his signature policy initiatives, in last night’s State of the Union Obama confidently promised to pursue an ambitious liberal agenda of intrusive government. Like a desperate poker player with a losing hand, Obama is too proud to fold, and hopes to bluff his way to victory. Along with the usual tedium, vacuity, and arrogance of any Obama speech, the State of the Union was also rank with deceptive rhetoric, misleading half-truths, and outright lies. Some of the most egregious examples are described below.

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This past Thursday, the Obama Administration proposed a “financial-crisis-responsibility fee” on select financial institutions which received TARP funds. According to the Administration, the tax would be 15 basis points (.15%), levied upon liabilities (assets minus Tier 1 capital and uninsured deposits) of financial institutions with $50 billion in assets, and is projected to collect $117 billion over a 10-year period. The Obama Administration claims that the top 10 financial institutions will pay 60% of the expected revenues.

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The ball has dropped – it’s 2010. Midterm elections. American voters will go to the polls this November, and – in the first wide-spread election since Change swept the nation – identify where the citizenry’s beliefs lie.
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The final issue of the semester is now out.

Look inside to find Curriculum Review, what Fort Hood should teach us, the risks of fiat currency, Climategate, and much more!

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Congratulations to the new executive officers of the BUCC. They will officially assume their positions on January 1, 2010.

President: Scott Henry ‘11
Vice President for The Counterweight: Kirby Thomas ‘12
Vice President for Special Events: Wes Pyron ‘12
Treasurer: Reed Dempsey ‘13
Secretary: Brett Carr ‘13

This semester’s third issue is now out!

Look inside to find Climate Justice, Bucknell’s disregard for Constitution Day law, Dining Services’ sustainability, and much more!

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The second issue of the semester is now out!

Inside you’ll find commentary on the American Empire, Cap and Trade, Swine ‘09, our version of Obama’s tax redistribution on campus, and much more!

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The BUCC is proud to sponsor an event on the future of free speech at Bucknell called “Free Speech and Bucknell.” Adam Kissel from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) will discuss issues regarding the current case on our campus.

Were you offended by the Affirmative Action Bake Sale? Come hear the reasoning behind it.

Do you think the Bake Sale was a great satirical event? Come hear what FIRE is doing to try to defend free speech at Bucknell University.

The event will begin at 6:30 on Tuesday, September 29 in the LC Forum.

The war on free speech is still in full swing, as FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) has noted in its most recent press release about the case at Bucknell.

A culture of fear appears to be chilling expression at Bucknell University, where even the student newspaper fears a libel lawsuit from Associate Dean of Students Gerald W. Commerford if it were to print a critical advertisement from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). After Bucknell administrators misapplied and abused Bucknell’s Sales and Solicitation and nondiscrimination policies last semester to shut down the Bucknell University Conservatives Club’s (BUCC’s) protests of affirmative action and President Obama’s economic stimulus, the group turned to FIRE for help.

Read the article here.

If you think that free speech is a pivotal part of the college experience, please let President Mitchell know.