By Glen Meakem
Published in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review
July 5, 2009
Four hundred years ago, astronomer Galileo Galilei and philosopher Francis Bacon changed the scientific process forever. Before them, science was about interpreting nature in light of the works of Aristotle and the Bible to maintain an orthodox ideology of how the universe works.
Galileo argued indirectly (he [...]

By Glen Meakem
Published in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review
June 21, 2009
In recent weeks, North Korea test-fired ballistic missiles over the Sea of Japan and exploded its second nuclear bomb. It also convicted two American journalists of “grave crimes” against the North Korean state, sentencing them to 12 years of hard labor.
In response, President Obama denounced North [...]

By Glen Meakem
Published in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review
May 31, 2009

April 1898. The United States was on the brink of war with the Spanish Empire.
To develop a campaign for fighting the Spanish in Cuba, President William McKinley required intelligence on many things. The situation demanded that McKinley communicate immediately with the leader of the Cuban [...]

By Glen Meakem
Published in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review
May 17, 2009
A radio commercial paid for by the Alliance for Climate Protection claims that 86,000 new jobs can be created in Pennsylvania through investment in “clean” energy under the “cap-and-trade” plan now before Congress.
With 500,000 Pennsylvanians out of work, it sounds enticing.
“We have to make a choice,” [...]

By Glen Meakem
Published in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review
May 3, 2009
Forty-seven percent of those surveyed in a Rasmussen Reports poll last month said “America’s best days have already come and gone.” That negative feeling increased 6 percentage points in just one month.
Times are tough. The economy contracted by 6.1 percent in the first quarter, according [...]

By Glen Meakem
Published in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review
April 19, 2009
Tens of thousands of Americans protested at “Tax-Day Tea Parties” last week. The message was clear — the left-wing agenda of President Obama and his allies must be stopped.
In just three months, President Obama has acted to more than double the national debt, increasing it [...]

By Glen Meakem
Published in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Sunday, April 5, 2009
What’s shocking about the firing of General Motors CEO Richard Wagoner is not that Wagoner was fired. After all, he racked up more than $70 billion in losses, failed to control costs and saw GM’s stock price tank. What’s shocking is that he was fired [...]

By Glen Meakem
Published in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Since President Obama took office, we have seen a $787 billion expansion of government and termination of the successful bipartisan welfare reform of the mid 1990s.
Our new president is proposing hard-left policies like “cap and trade” carbon regulations that will impose more than $600 billion [...]

By Glen Meakem
Published in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review
February 22, 2009

Buried in President Obama’s new economic stimulus law is a reversal of the very successful welfare reform legislation of 1996. President Clinton signed it into law with bipartisan support. In the House, 98 Democrats and 230 Republicans voted for the bill while 25 Democrats and [...]

By Glen Meakem
Published in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review
February 8, 2009
According to a Rasmussen survey, 88 percent of American adults support the idea that executives of companies receiving federal money should not receive bonuses. Thus, it was easy politics for President Barack Obama to scold Wall Street for paying $18.4 billion in year-end bonuses. Such [...]