So That’s Where Our Tax Money Goes! — January 1991
Where Oh Where Does Our Tax Money Go?
The National Endowment for the Arts got off easy in the uproar earlier this year about its tax-funding of obscene art. Another serious charge that should be made against this Ministry of Culture, which purports to decide which art should be … [Read more...] about Where Oh Where Does Our Tax Money Go?
Congress Rewards the NEA Outrages
It’s obvious that Congress isn’t at all interested in saving the taxpayers’ money or cutting spending. Congress just voted an increase in the budget for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) so that completely irresponsible agency can continue to … [Read more...] about Congress Rewards the NEA Outrages
Beware of the Slime Duck Session
It’s beginning to look at though the game plan of the liberals is to reject any sort of budget summit compromise, keep the spigot of spending turned on through the election by a continuing resolution, and then call a lame duck session after the … [Read more...] about Beware of the Slime Duck Session
Whose Side is Congress On?
The first week of August, the liberal Democrats in the U.S. Senate indulged in some pacifist euphoria and voted to cripple our Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) by cutting out one-fourth of its money ($4.7 billion cut to $3.6 billion). After all, … [Read more...] about Whose Side is Congress On?
Summer Senate Silliness
Apparently tired of grappling with real problems (such as S&L, the budget, and the Middle East), Senate Democrats last week took a morning off for silliness and held a hearing on the proposed United Nations treaty on the Elimination of … [Read more...] about Summer Senate Silliness
The Spending is More Obscene Than the Art
The picture in the advertisement caught my eye, as of course it was intended to do. The visual of that courageous Chinese student facing down the tanks in Tiananmen Square is always a grabber. But the text was downright ridiculous. It conjured up … [Read more...] about The Spending is More Obscene Than the Art
Defund the National Endowment for the Arts
Last week’s Senate committee hearing on the annual appropriation for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) was carried live across America on C-Span. But C-Span’s TB screen did not and could not show the obscene and blasphemous works of alleged … [Read more...] about Defund the National Endowment for the Arts
It’s Obscene To Call Such Stuff “Art” — May 1990
