Across the nation, states, counties, and municipalities are facing a fiscal calamity. Even before the 2008 economic meltdown, many states were facing a sea of red ink due to over-promising, poor fiscal planning, and too much political influence from government
In 2006, every Democrat Senator (including Senator Barack Obama) voted against raising the debt ceiling. Among the reasons Obama listed for voting against it was that doing so would be “a sign that the U.S. government can’t pay its own
For weeks, we have been treated to comic opera in D.C.’s theater of the politically and economically absurd. On the stage, the actors–President Obama, the Secretary of the Treasury, congressional leaders–hop about, shouting moronic lines about the national “default” that
This is the most recent installment of exclusive interviews with Dr. Paul Kengor, professor of political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania, as he continues to share snippets from his latest book revealing how communists, from Moscow
A wealth manager, appropriately enough, once told me that when it came to life, information came in three categories: What you know, what you don’t know, and what you don’t know that you don’t know. It is the last category
Via: CHRIS MATTHEWS: Country on the brink. Let’s play Hardball! Good evening I’m Chris Matthews, up in New York. Let me start tonight with the civil war going on in Washington today. It’s not North versus South or even Right
All anybody in Washington can talk about these days is the debt limit or debt ceiling – the total amount of money the federal government is authorized to borrow at any given time. After a decade in which spending increased
In 1879, Thomas Edison developed the incandescent light bulb with a small carbonized filament and a vacuum inside a globe. An electric lighting system was born–as convenient, safe and economical of a choice for consumers in his day as it
If Congress and the president don’t raise the debt ceiling, the consequences will be disastrous, politicians and pundits tell us, — the equivalent of an economic Armageddon. And President Obama warns that the consequences are so dire that he cannot
ACORN employees have been nailed time and time again for fraudulently registering voters (including Mickey Mouse and the Dallas Cowboys football team) — allegedly for the purpose of sweeping Democrats into office. They were caught on tape advising undercover reporters
President Barack Obama said Congress has a ‘unique opportunity to do something big’ and stabilize the U.S. economy for decades by cutting deficits at the same time it raises the national debt limit ahead of a critical Aug. 2 deadline.
Arab world opinion of the U.S. and President Obama … has dropped to an all time low. —dailycaller.com, 7/14/2011 This has to be understood for what it is: With the election of Barack Hussein Obama, the Arabs had every reason
From Department of Defense Buzz: “A pair of top Navy officials admitted Tuesday that its endemic readiness problems are basically unresolved — and may keep getting worse — before the service’s plans to fix its surface fleet finally take effect.
Republicans in Congress are hewing to the best traditions of the founders of the nation, and the founders of their own party, in their effort to keep a lid on federal borrowing. The idea that there is some constitutional bar
“What?! Just look at this article’s title! Here’s typical Cuban- exile, Mc Carthyite, crackpot right-wing, Republican lunacy! Bourdain’s show is on The Travel Channel, for crying out loud! On the July 12th episode of his No Reservations , they ran
This week, the U.S. House of Representatives is likely to pass legislation–dubbed the “Better Use of Light Bulbs Act,” or BULB Act, for short, that will repeal the now infamous ban on the incandescent light bulb. I’ll resist the temptation
And on Bachmann: “At least she’s somebody who can read. You know, she has a job. She was a lawyer. She’s in Congress. She’s not someone who just sits there and reads the prayers on her Blackberry like Sarah Palin.”
We were viciously criticized as naïve in April for heralding “The Death of the American Social Welfare State“. Yet the failure this weekend of the supposedly $4 trillion deficit reduction “grand compromise”; with President Obama offering to cut $100 billion
When it comes to the Barack Obama Administration and “deregulation,” their words are often belied by their actions. In January, President Obama placed quill to parchment for the Wall Street Journal and claimed his Administration had since Day One worked
A traditionally safe Democrat congressional seat is up for grabs in a special election this Tuesday in Los Angeles. The local FoxTV News ran a damning story exposing the Democrat candidate’s connection to a program that gave taxpayer money to
How do unelected Obama appointed NLRB board members bring about Card Check and bypass congress and secret ballot elections? On Thursday July 7th as the House Education & Workforce Committee was trying to get to the bottom of the NLRB
Did the Obama Justice Department refuse to prosecute a radical Muslim with alleged terrorist ties for political reasons? That question is at the center of a new Judicial Watch investigation. Recently we filed a lawsuit against the DOJ for failing
Congressman Tom McClintock (CA-04) House Floor remarks in support of an amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act to deny authorization for the use of funds for the war in Libya. Speech in Support of the Amash/ Kucinich Amendment
To give a quick review, on June 23, Richard Stengel wrote a cover story* for Time Magazine rife with factual errors. On June 29, I published a piece here recording fourteen clear factual errors in that story. I said at
Seeking to make virtue out of vice, the political Left has launched a desperate, devious and dangerous ploy to prevent the spending cuts that the public demands. They are laying the groundwork for President Obama to bypass negotiations and to
