Tag: Congress

In 1831, a French aristocrat, Alexis de Tocqueville’s recognized how different America’s infant democracy was from other democratic republics. He issued warnings to our young republic, “One also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels

A powerful irony of unintended consequences of Arizona’s new immigration law is emerging, which is that the law will only harm innocent Arizonans. Perception can be more powerful than reality, and even if the millions of Americans who oppose the

If any further proof is needed that Barney Frank has been completely incompetent in his oversight of the financial services industry, one need look no further than this past week. Just one day after Frank sent a memo to the

Remember Joe and Eileen Bailey? They are the imaginary friends of Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) who accompany him wherever he goes. He talks about them often. This year, New Yorkers may finally realize that it’s only Schumer’s imaginary friends who

Question: What good is a pledge if it is not adhered to? Answer: Not very good. And that’s the state of Obama’s pledge to end the practice of allowing industry insiders involved in lobbying to affect public policy from within

One thing our founding fathers could not foresee… was a nation governed by professional politicians who have a vested interest in getting reelected. They probably envisioned a fellow serving a couple of hitches and then looking forward to getting back

April was a busy month for bad: lame financial reform legislation, served up three days in a row like rancid leftovers, SEC fraud filings, Wall Street Hearings in Congress, Greek bailouts, oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico and car

Last week, three major Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and five industry trade associations sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski urging him to ditch what has come to be known in some tech policy circles as

The Mainstream media (MSM) is currently peddling the Obama Administration myth that patriotic Americans, many of whom have served in our military or who otherwise have an American flag hanging proudly in their front yards, pose a grave threat to

When Andy Stern announced his retirement as head of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the “Change to Win” federation, he took a generous retirement package with him, and left his union $85 million in debt, having spent $61

The health care bill that Congress passed recently is now being challenged by 18 states to date. The constitutionality of the bill will be a close call, with strong arguments on both sides. As former staff director of the bipartisan

The Hill reports that during a visit to a Macon, Missouri ethanol plant this week, President Obama said that he wants to triple ethanol production over the next twelve years: President Barack Obama on Wednesday touted ethanol – both the

Apparently there is to be a vote later today on a bill regarding Puerto Rican statehood. They are calling it “non-binding” but it is not non-binding! It is a trap. The bill makes eventual Puerto Rican statehood a virtual certainty.

Liberals in congress are trying to sell the Dodd bill as a bill that would stop the bailouts by regulating Wall Street, but, it actually creates permanent bailouts that will fund corrupt Wall Street executives who make poor decisions. Did

The growing American protest movement has met the Obama Administration’s effort to regulate the Internet, as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been flooded with almost 50,000 individual demands to stay away from their broadband. Just as a majority of

Last night (Tuesday) on his TV show, Glenn Beck dropped another bombshell — on Thursday, Congress will take up a bill to make Puerto Rico a state. Why is our Congress doing this now? Secretly? Quickly? If it hadn’t been

After Obama won the 2008 election, copies of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged were flying off the shelves even faster than usual. It seems readers saw something familiar in the President’s proposed state-centred policies and the novel’s dystopian vision of America

Unlike the “experts” on both sides of the political spectrum who will state with absolute certainty who the Tea Partiers are and what they stand for (invariably to support the reporter’s political persuasion), we will admit that at this point

Here we go again. Harry Reid intends to force a vote at 5pm on Monday in a desperate attempt to push yet another bloated bill that will do more harm than good. This time, the Democrats seem to have zeroed

April 15th – Tax Day – inspired protests across the nation. Demonstrators rallied for smaller government, lower taxes, and liberty. They want government off their backs. They demanded it, in fact, and they are demanding that the Republican Party delivers

“People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.” Brooks Atkinson It is trite to say that things often are not what

At a time when the American taxpayer is on the hook for trillions in current and future federal spending–when the Congressional Budget Office warns that the current rate of federal spending is “unsustainable”–liberal Democrats in Congress have earmarked over $68