GOP TODAY 02/25/2014

Submitted by: Jason Lord

Gov. Jindal speaks truth at White House; Democrats horrified! Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal lashed out first, saying if Obama were serious about growing the economy he would approve the Keystone XL pipeline project and take other executive actions. Jindal said, Obama "seems to be waving the white flag of surrender" on the economy by focusing on raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10, up from $7.25. "The Obama economy is now the minimum wage economy. I think we can do better than that," Jindal said. The power of the president's pen When President Obama announced to the world that "I have a pen and a phone," he articulated what those of us who go to court to challenge his administration's constitutional overreaches, and a growing number of other Americans, have come to fear: The law is what he and his regulators decide it will be. Cornered by Obamacare Like a cornered animal, Democrats threatened by Obamacare are turning vicious. One Democratic congressman, now running for the U.S. Senate, last week threatened to use a federal agency to drive a television station out of business if it allowed a cancer patient to share her story of how Obamacare took away her insurance. News, Commentary, Discussions The Fairness Fraud Everywhere you turn these days, there are studies claiming to show that America has lost its upward mobility. But there is a sharp difference between upward "mobility," defined as an opportunity to rise, and mobility defined as actually having risen. Guns in churches? Opinions vary A bill approved in the Georgia House that would clear the way for licensed gun owners to bring a weapon into church is an unnecessary initiative, several midstate pastors and worshippers said. Union thuggery in Philadelphia Burning down a church strikes most Americans, including dissenters and nonbelievers, as a crime beyond comprehension. But the FBI last week provided the evidence to charge 10 members of a Philadelphia ironworkers union with torching a Quaker church.