The Food and Drug Administration is supposed to be the scientific arbiter concerning the safety of dietary supplements. Instead, it is acting arbitrarily, choosing to target one product not because of any actual risk, but as an attempt to justify
The student loan bubble is ultimately the same as the mortgage bubble, without the complex secondary derivatives market. It was created by a combination of stupid politicians trying to make higher education more “affordable” via cheap credit, and irresponsible borrowers
The media insists on describing recent election results in Europe as a blow to “austerity,” when in fact Europe’s recent policies are anything but. Government spending has continued to rise across much of Europe, and even those countries that have
With Congress returning from a weeklong spring recess, the Senate plans to vote Tuesday on whether to start debating a Democratic plan to keep college loan interest rates for 7.4 million students from doubling on July 1.
On Thursday, May 10, at 3PM EST on C-SPAN, Representative PaulGosar will lead a Special Order on the House floor concerning Operation Fastand Furious. The Special Order will allow members of the House to talk about the Department of Justice’s
The White House blog today is pushing a new program called Summer Jobs+. It’s “a call to action for businesses, non-profits, and government to work together to provide pathways to employment for young people in the summer of 2012. It’s
The heartland of our state has had its guts kicked in by recession and is now laden with closed factories, struggling farms, abandoned homes, and desperately high unemployment. Our formerly proud big cities are now shadows of the productive powerhouses
Federal program features Talk and Trek Tuesdays, Walking School Busses and Bicycle Rodeos Not so long ago, kids walked and biked to their neighborhood school as a matter of course. Now, there’s a federal government program that spends hundreds of
Network Neutrality is disastrous Internet policy, cooked up in the fevered swamps of university faculty lounges and Media Marxist grievance group offices. Every encounter with Reality has been for Net Neutrality and its proponents an abysmal failure. Net Neutrality is Socialism for
Whether to maximize his own political fortunes, or–as some have suggested–to facilitate a possible pre-emptive strike against Iran’s nuclear program in the fall, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared yesterday that he will call early elections for the Knesset, Israel’s legislature.
Conservatives who intellectually have broken new ground come around once in a generation. And they usually share some common traits. They are not of the “Mr. Republican” type. They come from non-traditional or liberal backgrounds and are able to understand
Apparently Obama and his administration operate under that old, underhanded adage that if you tell a lie long enough and loud enough it becomes “truth,” because Obama has done it again by lying about how his jobs bill was to
BEN FOXAssociated PressGUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, CubaThe self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks repeatedly declined to respond to a judge’s questions Saturday and his co-defendant was briefly restrained at a military hearing as five men charged with the worst
By KAREN MATTHEWSAssociated PressNEW YORKFamily members of some 9/11 victims are watching on closed-circuit TV as the self-proclaimed mastermind of the attacks and four co-defendants are arraigned at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Jim Riches was among the family members watching
(AP) Romney targets 4 percent unemploymentBy JULIE PACEAssociated PressWASHINGTONJostling for an advantage on the economy, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday set a target of 4 percent for the nation’s unemployment rate, while President Barack Obama proclaimed it “good
ARLINGTON, Va., May 4 (UPI) —U.S. President Barack Obama urged high school students Friday to tell lawmakers to approve a measure that would keep student loan interest rates from doubling. Obama, joined by U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, made the
Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng is in trouble. He escaped captivity and fled to the U.S. Embassy, only to leave the U.S. Embassy after a U.S. official either encouraged him to do so or “made him feel he was being [such]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress should pass a law to give investigators freer access to certain cellphone records, an Obama administration official said on Thursday, in remarks that raised concern among advocates of civil liberties and privacy. Jason Weinstein,
Today, in a non-campaign event, President Obama told high schoolers that it was their “responsibility” to Tweet the hashtag #dontdoublemyrate, a reference to Obama’s latest campaign fib, in which he has accused Republicans of wanting to raise student loan interest
Meet Generation V, the young Veterans of the long war. They return now, fully vested in the system and confident of their ability to make it better. Unlike their unfortunate young counterparts in the Occupy movement, these heroic All-American men and
President Barack Obama and Democrats would like to forget about Solyndra, a failed “green energy” company the Obama administration subsidized with taxpayer money. But one Congressman literally did forget all about Solyndra. Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA), in a mind-boggling interview
Apparently, liberals are no longer concerned about the use of the word “slut.” A new website, created by study guide publisher Susan McMillan Emry, is seeking to “fight the GOP effort to bully, subjugate and silence women.” The name of
When Congress returns after recess, the astronomical levels of spending included in President Obama’s budget will face a vicious election-year showdown which will make the debt ceiling debate look tame. And while our Campaigner-in-Chief is busy making jokes about eating
Democrats are getting desperate when it comes to Operation Fast and Furious. They will do anything to deflect from the fact that people using the guns that Attorney General Eric Holder’s Department of Justice “walked” across the border to murder
When you set the ethics bar as low as they do in Washington, DC, it’s easy for just about anyone to clear it. In our nation’s capital, the permanent political class gets to play by a different set of rules
