While progressives attack the Bush tax cuts and President Barack Obama wants to let them expire for families making over $250,000, figures released by the IRS show the wealthiest 1% actually paid more in taxes after the Bush tax cuts
A Louisiana judge on Friday ruled that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s landmark school voucher program violated the state’s constitution that governs how taxpayer monies can be used to fund education, ruling that state funds were “never meant to be diverted
The man who helped write Obamacare is back with a new agenda for the President’s 2nd term. Step one may be filibuster reform. Jacob Hacker (pictured) runs a political policy center at Yale University. He’s best known as one of
On Saturday, Chino Hills, California residents protested an estate that they claim is being used by pregnant Chinese nationals as a “maternity hotel” so they can give birth to their children in the United States. Their children would consequently receive
Thomas Lopez-Pierre, an African-American candidate for a seat on the City Council in New York City’s 7th Council District said he was opposed to the candidacy of his Jewish opponent, Mark Levine, whom he called a “White/Jewish candidate” who was
Harvard University is famous for its secular leftism, and now they have approved a student organization which will give Leftists (who do champion the counterculture) a club where they can indulge their fantasies: the Harvard College Munch for Bondage/Discipline/Sadism/Masochism. The
In an unprecedented wave of public assistance spending, the federal and state governments have shelled out more than half a trillion dollars in unemployment programs over the last five years. If Congress decides to extend unemployment benefits yet again, it
On National Public Radio last Friday, former Rep. Allen West (R-FL) explained his future role in politics. “Look,” said West, “you know, God closes a door so that he can open up greater doors. I will continue to, you know,
West Point’s Cadet Chapel, described as the “center for spiritual life” at the U.S. Military Academy, hosted its first same-sex wedding on Saturday. West Point graduate Brenda Sue Fulton and her partner, Penelope Gnesin, were able to marry at the
California Gov. Jerry Brown is fine with endless public expenditures of taxpayer cash. But when it comes to private donations, Brown is putting his foot down. The new University of California Berkeley chancellor, Nicholas B. Dirks, is all set to
President Obama is all set to punish residents of states that don’t comply with his tyrannical Obamacare program, the Department of Health and Human Services proclaimed Friday. Under Obamacare, states are asked to set up insurance exchanges. Those exchanges require
John McCain, at a farewell for retiring Senator Joseph Lieberman, decided to make some jokes about Lieberman’s orthodox Judaism for the star-studded crowd, which included former vice president Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano,
(AP) Partisan split over UN Ambassador Rice widensBy MATTHEW LEEAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe partisan political divide over the potential nomination of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to be secretary of state is intensifying. Republican senators say they’re deeply concerned over Rice’s statements about
Last December, the DOJ overturned a forty year old regulation prohibiting online wagering, noting that a 1961 rule governing sports betting could not be considered to cover modern games of online Texas Hold ’em. It was a moderate success for
(AP) Boehner tells Geithner, ‘You can’t be serious’WASHINGTONHouse Speaker John Boehner says he was “flabbergasted” when Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner (GYT’-nur) pitched the White House plan to save the nation from the “fiscal cliff.” Boehner tells “Fox News Sunday” that
Lead White House negotiator Timothy Geithner insisted Sunday there would be no deal to avert the “fiscal cliff” unless Republicans allowed tax rates on the wealthiest Americans to rise.
The American Pizza Community, a coalition of the nation’s largest pizza companies, regional chains, and small franchise operators, is supporting passage of the Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Ace of 2012, a bill to reform the new menu labeling regulations that
