Big Government

John Paul Thornton of Decatur, AL, has filed an application for a PAC designed to tap into the Occupy Movement.  Thornton,according to the local CBS affiliate, said he was watching The Colbert Report when he came up with the idea. “This PAC

ANDOVER, Mass. – For teachers unions and school administrators, work schedules are a touchy subject. The schedule dictates the number of days each year teachers spend in the classroom, the number of hours in a day set aside for preparation, and

Ohio AG Mike DeWine has shifted his support from Mitt Romney to Rick Santorum, reading the tea leaves, which suggest that momentum in the state is moving toward Santorum. “To be elected president, you have to do more than tear down

Today, in 1904, Madame Butterfly had its debut at La Scala in Milan.

Here at Consumer Energy Alliance, we are glad to see energy policy emerge as a cornerstone of the policy debate leading into the presidential elections this fall.  From President Obama’s recent embrace of an “all-of-the-above” energy policy during his State of the

Andy Stepanian, a convicted felon who served 3 years in federal prison after being convicted on domestic terrorism charges, writes for AOL and the Huffington Post–and hasn’t stopped threatening opponents with violence. Screen grab of Stepanian’s HuffPo bio Stepanian’s HuffPo biography notes

All of the remaining GOP candidates in the 2012 primary can justifiably be criticized for something. There’s no disputing that. At the link below, the Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto takes a look at some specific criticism that’s been prominently

The independent effort to verify the signatures on the petitions seeking the recall of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is looking for a last minute infusion of volunteers. With help, they say, they can then begin to analyze the data for signs of

From the Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON–Federal agents on Friday arrested a man who they allege planned carry out a suicide bombing at the U.S. Capitol, part of a sting operation in which undercover agents posing as al Qaeda operatives provided fake

Rick Santorum’s big bump in the polls this week, particularly in Michigan, where he is now running ahead by a margin of 39%-24% according to one poll, and 33%-27% in another, has to put a scare into the Romney campaign.  But

All things good and bad come to an end, and that is true of the long recession, which, according to the economic statisticians, we are in no longer.  When the jobs numbers for last month came in President Obama was

President Obama may not like it but the American people finally need to declare a statute of limitations for blaming Bush.   Obama is traveling around making appearances uttering some semblance of the words “we didn’t know how bad it was” in defense

After the 2010 congressional elections, which President Obama admitted were a “shellacking” of his party at the hands of irate independent voters, the President and his administration shifted gears. When Democrats ran all of Congress, the Administration was curiously passive,

Here’s a a question: If tax dollars were being used to make prices cheaper for companies overseas while simultaneously forbidding American companies from enjoying the same luxury…would that be fair? I would submit that it’s not and President Obama claimed

With America on the verge of achieving energy independence in the next five years by dramatically expanding domestic energy production, why should anyone be surprised that it’s Big Oil money that’s out to kill the Keystone XL Pipeline to prevent

[audio: http://www.coffeeandmarkets.com/CoffeeandMarkets021712.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the deteriorating situation in Greece, Tim Geithner’s testimony before Paul Ryan, and Obama’s missing plan for debt

Capitol Alert Gov. Jerry Brown wants to hit California’s highest-income taxpayers with billions of dollars in new taxes, and is jousting with other groups with their own tax-the-rich measures over which, if any, will win voter approval. But the number of Californians

Yesterday, White House Domestic Policy Council member Cecilia Munoz appeared on “The Bill Press Show.”  There, she explained that Congress was filled with “roadblocks,” and that the budget wasn’t going anywhere fast. But she added that “this President has shown

Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) President Mary Bell got caught lying. On the record no less. On February 8, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that public-employee unions were attempting to extract from Democratic gubernatorial candidates a pledge to veto the state budget

The awkwardness of modern politics To get a sense of how badly Mitt Romney and his supporters want him to win in his home state of Michigan, you need only look at two figures that were obtained by Big Government:

Yesterday, the House Oversight Committee held a hearing “to assess the impact of the healthcare mandate rule on freedom of religion,” and see whether the executive branch of government had overreached its constitutional authority. Or to put it as Rush

The Congressional Budget Office released a report Thursday that showed real unemployment in America at 15 percent for the month of January, a figure considerably higher than the White House’s oft-cited 8.3 percent figure that does not include part-time workers