In a recent Boston Herald column, pollster Scott Rasmussen of Rasmussen Reports cited poll findings that show strong bipartisan opposition to cronyism and its effects on free markets. A few highlights from Rasmussen’s soundings: Only 16 percent of voters said
Liberals who are “giddy”at the prospects of Mitt Romney’s selection of Wisconsin CongressmanPaul Ryan are in for a rude and sober awakening when they realize thestrategic genius behind the decision. Team Romney’s strategy? Lure the Obama campaign into attacking Ryan’s
A new report by the Government Accountability Institute reveals multiple conflicts of interest surrounding Attorney General Eric Holder’s former law firm and the Department of Justice’s surprise ruling last year to legalize online lotteries and gaming. On Friday, December 23,
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are battling to paint each other as the crony-in-chief candidate. But the truth is, both candidates are awash in lobbyist money and connections. So far, Mitt Romney has refused to release the names of all
A new report by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce contains a spate of White House emails that suggest former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel may have been the driving force behind President Obama’s now-infamous speaking appearance at the
In presidential campaign ads, President Barack Obama claims that his economic plan includes “$4 trillion in deficit reduction.” For a president who has increased the national debt more than all U.S. presidents from George Washington to George H.W. Bush combined,
In 2008, billionaire publisher and real estate mogul Mort Zuckerman supported Barack Obama. Now, in a recent U.S. News and World Report article, Mr. Zuckerman says “Hope and Change” has morphed into the shattering of the American dream. “The great American
On Monday, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) proposed a bill that would restrict the online sale of ammunition to anyone but licensed dealers and anyone who can present a photo ID, which would act as a
The Cayman Islands is famous for being a tax shelter for many of the world’s biggest hedge funds and a land where direct taxation is verboten. But all that may be changing if Cayman Islands Premier McKeeva Bush’s proposal to impose
When President Barack Obama blocked the Keystone Pipeline, Republicans said the move would encourage Canada to pursue oil deals with China instead of the United States and cede a massive chunk of North American oil assets to the communist nation.
On Wednesday, lawmakers grilled Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner as to why he failed to stop the fraudulent manipulation of the LIBOR (London Interbank Offered Rate) interest rate when Fed bank documents show officials were alerted to a possible problem as early
Those wondering why the Department of Justice has refused to go after Jon Corzine for the vaporization of $1.6 billion in MF Global client funds need look no further than the documents uncovered by the Government Accountability Institute that reveal
A new jobs training oversight report by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) found that a federally-funded Oklahoma Job Corps program spent around $76,000 per person to help youth secure minimum wage jobs. The report, released Tuesday, comes 18 months after a Government Accountability
In an effort to make good on President Barack Obama’s commitment to “green energy,” the United States Air Force spent $639,000 on 11,000 gallons of alcohol-to-jet fuel from Gevo Inc., a Colorado biofuels company, at $59 a gallon. The cost
On Monday, Reuters issued an exclusive report stating that U.S. prosecutors and European regulators are close to arresting and charging traders in the LIBOR scandal to manipulate global interest rates. From Reuters: Federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., have recently
On Friday, a federal judge complied with the request of federal prosecutors to dismiss what would have been the largest human trafficking case in U.S. history on the grounds that the government lacked the evidence to convict. “To dismiss a
A report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) reveals that that taxpayer identity theft more than doubled in 2011, skyrocketing to 641,052 taxpayers affected as compared to 270,518 the prior year. As Eileen Ambrose of the Baltimore
An eye-opening new report by the Government Accountability Institute reveals that President Barack Obama averages just eight minutes more a week on economic meetings than the average dog owner spends walking their dog. When it was recently reported that Mr.
On Friday, the Federal Trade Commission issued a warning that fraudsters are now using Obamacare to scam the very citizens who will be forced to pay for Obama’s new healthcare scheme. The FTC Alert says that scam artists are targeting
If there were any doubt that Eliot “Client 9” Spitzer has spiraled into further irrelevance, it was erased Friday afternoon in an embarrassing and bizarre shootout between the disgraced former NY Attorney General and CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo. At issue were
A recent CNNMoney survey found that 75% of money managers and investment strategists believe a Mitt Romney victory would lift U.S. markets. The survey also found that “many are also hoping for the GOP to gain control of both the
President Barack Obama apparently has a lot of rust to shake off as he gears up for his “last campaign.” Last week, he and his team committed at least five campaign gaffes: 1. Obama charged that Mitt Romney is not
In an exclusive CNBC interview yesterday, former New York Attorney General Dennis Vacco dropped a bombshell on his disgraced successor Eliot Spitzer that raises new questions about the lingering charges Mr. Spitzer lodged against former AIG chief Maurice “Hank” Greenberg nearly eight
It may go down as the biggest banking scandal in history, and yet many Americans have not even heard about it. The LIBOR (London Interbank Offered Rate) scandal is a big deal, and so far no one knows just how
On Friday, President Barack Obama issued an executive order on the “Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions” because the “the Federal Government must have the ability to communicate at all timesand under all circumstances to carry out
