A coalition of 125 celebrity musicians, including pop singer Katy Perry, have joined forces with anti-tax advocates including Grover Norquist and the National Taxpayers Union (NTU) to oppose an intellectual property “reform” bill that critics charge expands government to the
America is in deep trouble. Everyone realizes it, even people who just voted for “four more years” in the recent election. A Rasmussen poll from August found that just 14 percent of Americans think that America’s children will be better off than
(CNSNews.com) – Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) says members of Congress “earn” their $174,000 per year salary (plus benefits) and that this compensation is “not elaborate.”
According to one former member of the White House Climate Change Task Force under President Clinton, President Obama may have plans to implement a carbon tax as soon as the fiscal cliff negotiations are settled. Forget the fact that Obama
After President Barack Obama’s reelection, more conservatives are calling for Republicans to attack crony capitalism in Washington, D.C., as shown by the new film “District of Corruption.” Sarah Palin first railed against crony capitalism on both sides of the aisle
President Obama likes to say that he wants a “balanced” approach to address our nation’s fiscal challenges. Presumably, this means a mixture of spending cuts and tax hikes to get our fiscal house in order. He has been very specific
As New Jersey residents without heat try to rebuild after Hurricane Sandy, new federal energy standards regarding furnaces will force them to pay thousands of dollars more to buy furnaces that are compliant. The new rules require those purchasing furnaces
Representative-elect Alan Grayson (D-FL) said Monday on Current TV’s “The Young Turks,” that he will go after Walmart during the next Congress.
A women’s rights organization is auctioning the creative services of Sandra Fluke to raise money to fight for “gender justice in the media.” The group Women, Action, and the Media! (WAM!) is allowing people to bid on a “strategy session
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett argued in a Monday New York Times op-ed for increasing taxes on those making over $500,000 and enacting an alternative minimum tax of 30% on those making between $1 million and $10 million and 35% on
Just when you think Time magazine can’t make any more of a mockery of itself, they nominate Sandra Fluke, contraception advocate extraordinaire, as a candidate in their Person of the Year 2012 poll: Fluke, of course, is the condom rights
According to the White House, hitting the fiscal cliff and forcing across-the-board tax hikes would slam the economy to the tune of $200 billion. The White House sent an email this morning making precisely this point, hoping to pressure Congressional
Today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) threatened changes to the Senate filibuster system, which forces most measures to receive 60 votes in order to receive an actual vote. The filibuster has been a centuries-old constitutional traditional driving compromise rather
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) took to the floor of the Senate today to slam President Obama for his kowtowing to the radical left on tax policy ahead of the much-dreaded fiscal cliff. McConnell said that talks have now
Since entering conservatorship in September 2008, $188 billion in taxpayer funds have been used to prop up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Granted, the two companies have repaid $45 billion in dividends to the Treasury, but most of the funds
Can an American citizen exercise his religion through his privately-owned business? The fate of Obamacare’s disturbing HHS contraception mandate turns on that question, and now the federal courts are split on the answer regarding an issue very likely to end
Orange County, California, which for decades has been emblematic of conservatism and a Republican stronghold, has changed significantly demographically with the influx of Latinos and Asians, and the OC GOP is rethinking their political stance on immigration in order to
Congress returns Monday from its week-long Thanksgiving holiday and resumes talks with President Barack Obama on averting a looming fiscal crisis that could send the entire US economy plunging into recession again. Officials in Washington are hoping to find a
Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton has held both Democrats and Republicans to account, and he believes Republicans need to be even more diligent and proactive in Obama’s second term in combating the crony capitalistic government corruption — such as green
(AP) Black voters look to leverage their loyaltyBy SUZANNE GAMBOAAssociated PressWASHINGTONWhen black voters gave President Barack Obama 93 percent support on Election Day in defiance of predictions that they might sit it out this year, black leaders breathed a collective
(AP) Fiscal cliff: How to judge if debt cuts are realBy ALAN FRAMAssociated PressWASHINGTONPresident Barack Obama and leaders of the lame-duck Congress may be just weeks away from shaking hands on a deal to avert the dreaded “fiscal cliff.” So
Many retailers are pressuring Congress to enact legislation that would impose an online sales tax. Retailers and retail advocacy groups are attempting to use the enormous online consumption of “Cyber Monday”, the Monday after Thanksgiving when many online shops offer deep
The Hill reports that seven House Republicans, along with Christians United For Israel, have called on Twitter to ban terrorist groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, and Somailia’s al-Shabbab. Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) has spearheaded an effort to get the FBI to
Today, House Speaker John Boehner made an aggressive opening move in the negotiations over the so-called fiscal cliff: he said that Obamacare had to be on the table in terms of cost-cutting. Them’s fightin’ words. In an editorial in the
Jesse Jackson Jr. has resigned from Congress just weeks after winning reelection for a ninth term. Jackson Jr. has been in treatment for bipolar disorder since June. The timing of his treatment coincides with an FBI investigation into misuse of
