Jack: He can’t lift the seat, Greg. He lacks the strength and the opposable thumbs. Jack: Focker, I’m not gonna tell you again! Jinx cannot flush the toilet. He’s a cat, for chrissakes! Larry: The animal doesn’t even have thumbs,
Sources on Capitol Hill have informed Capitol Confidential that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will indeed begin rationing late-stage cancer drugs. The FDA will make an 11am (EDT) announcement that it will begin denying Avastin to breast cancer patients
From the Associated Press: The Senate Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a sweeping tax package that would save millions of Americans thousands of dollars in higher taxes while also reducing their Social Security taxes and extending jobless benefits. President Barack Obama swiftly
Evidently, at least one member of Congress thinks that $500,000 of your tax dollars is appropriate to construct a fish passage barrier for salmon in Alaska. Although the Republican conference in both the House and Senate has sworn off earmarks,
The spending barons on Capitol Hill, long used to muscling past opponents of bills larded with pet projects, are seeking one last victory before tea party-backed GOP insurgents storm Congress intent on ending the good old days of pork-barrel politics.
Despite being one of the more unpopular policies in America, the death tax is set to be resurrected on January 1st. How high it will ultimately rise remains to be seen. If the tax deal passes, it will return at
“Is that why you’re here, Colonel? Some kind of post-Vietnam experience like you need a rerun or something? You pour a hundred twenty million bucks into this place, you turn it into a military zone, so what, so you can
UCLA Professor Kent Wong gave an impassioned speech at a rally held at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles with DREAM Act supporters in attendance.
[Ed. Note: What are the odds that the same day I praise this film, this happens? — JN] Proving once again that Hollywood always gravitates to the wrong causes, Tim Cavanaugh of Reason.com reported on Dec. 14 that the California
Nothing changes so much as it stays the same. The Democrats continue to be relentless in their determination to expand all levels of government, and Republicans, despite just coming off an historic electoral victory nationwide, still don’t get it. It
The massive WikiLeaks breaches should prompt Congress to re-examine how the nation guards its secrets and bring its anti-espionage statutes into the Internet age. The First Amendment’s protections for the freedom of the press exist to protect the people’s right
It’s been obvious for a long while that Democrats have little appreciation of the power of incentives and disincentives when it comes to setting marginal tax rates. Democrats refuse to acknowledge, for example, that raising marginal tax rates sends powerful
There is nothing about President Obama’s negotiated START follow on treaty that even vaguely resembles the principles upon which Ronald Reagan conducted arms control with the Soviets. Further, the full court press by the President and the lame-stream media to
Tim Graham at NewsBusters: That taxpayer-funded leftist sandbox called National Public Radio promoted the latest work/wreck of “progressive art” on Saturday morning’s Weekend Edition. In San Francisco, they’re twisting the classic ballet The Nutcracker into a radical-left jeremiad. Anchor Scott
In early December, Congress passed the Child Nutrition Act of 2010 (The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act); however, controversy still surrounds the bill regarding the cuts to the food stamp fund in order to pay for the act. With a record
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates wants the “Don’t ask don’t tell” (DADT) law repealed, despite the fact that 1,167 retired military leaders including 51 four-star generals signed a letter supporting the law. This open letter was delivered to President Obama
While the new Congress deliberates over ways to repeal or defund the Obama Administration’s “healthcare reform” law, twenty states and the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), have filed suit in federal court arguing that the law is unconstitutional and
This week marked a milestone in our nation’s history – and the American people smell a rat. “Washington, D.C.,” is not only rotten to the core, it is now clear to all that the government establishment wants to destroy us.
The President proposed a national conversation about the proper role of government during last week’s hastily arranged press conference designed to smooth the ruffled feathers of his party’s bantam roosters who have been cackling their dissatisfaction over the common-sense compromise
When big-spending politicians in Washington pontificate about “deficit reduction,” taxpayers should be very wary. Crocodile tears about red ink almost always are a tactic that the political class uses to make tax increases more palatable. The way it works is
Arab-American leaders defended veteran journalist Helen Thomas, as her alma mater pulled an award named in her honor. Wayne State University’s decision to disassociate itself with Thomas was a response to the most recent controversial comments by the veteran White
This time last year, the Democrats ruined the holiday season for so many and finished off Christmas by voting on Christmas Eve to pass the House version of health care “reform.” This year it’s our taxes. I can’t imagine what
Why is the Obama administration frantically trying to push New START, a strategic arms-control agreement with Russia, through the “lame duck” session of Congress? Because of the president’s deep commitment to U.S. nuclear disarmament. He fears that New START may
In my fiscal policy speeches, I sometimes try to get a laugh out of audiences by including a Powerpoint slide with this image. Leading up to this slide, I talk about the Armey/Forbes flat tax and explain that it would
This is getting creepy. From LibraryJournal.com (links from the original): The Library of Congress (LC) has been blocking access to the WikiLeaks website since December 3, on its wireless network available for visitors as well as on its own staff’s
