Federal budget deficit will reach $1.35 trillion in 2010, and Congress is already planning to borrow billions more to pay for a new jobs bill and another war funding bill Most TSA employees to receive performance-based pay hikes Taxpayers spent
The Massachusetts Special Election last week upended “conventional wisdom” about “who can/might/should/ or will win” and how traditional voting blocs may cast their ballots in upcoming elections. This is not simply a look at “what happened,” but also what it
Watch CBS News Videos Online CBS News: For 15 Democratic and 6 Republican Congressmen, food and rooms for two nights cost $4,406 tax dollars each. That’s $2,200 a day – more than most Americans spend on their monthly mortgage payment.
The Scott Brown triumph heralds an enormous opportunity for Republicans this fall. As I posited in Part 2 of this series, The Top 4 Things Congressional Republicans Must Do in 2010, in order to make the most of the 2010
In Texas we have an expression: Saying it don’t make it so. The proof of the saying is all around us. Take for instance the latest video from that national treasure Naked Emperor News which shows then candidate Barack Obama
As Democrats are grieving their lost super-majority in Congress, some special interests are trying to spin the loss in ridiculous ways. The latest: Union boss Leo Gerard writes that “The message of Massachusetts should be clear: If Democrats want to
It is apparently a mystery to a lot political insiders why the Tea Parties have become so popular with so many Americans in state after state across the nation. Many have simply tried to dismiss the phenomena as the ranting
On the list of insane public policy moves we have come to expect from the current administration, Cap and Tax, Obamacare and Union Card Check, a fourth has garnered relatively little attention, although the implications for all Americans may be
Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-N.H.): “We go to the ladies room and the Republican women and the Democratic women and we just roll our eyes.”
Last week, Congressman Thad McCotter introduced a Bill HR 4500, The Freedom From Rationed Health Care Act, that invalidates a little known, hidden part of the Stimulus Bill. That hidden part of The Stimulus Bill created the rationing and enforcement
I love to grab a weekend lunch at the fabulous Tomboy’s Burgers in Manhattan Beach, and when I’m there I always pick up one of the discarded LA Times front sections lying by the bottles of Tapitio hot sauce. “Maybe
Well, Halleluiah! Barack Obama says he wants to cut the spiraling national deficit. Barack Obama tripled the national deficit last year. This year Barack Obama is on track to nearly quadruple Bush’s 2008 budget deficit. (CBO Estimates) But don’t worry.
After Senator-elect Scott Brown’s resounding win in Massachusetts, it is clear that when Americans have the facts, they make informed decisions and let their voices be heard about the important issues facing our country. Our founders understood how important information
Thursday, in his resounding defense of the First Amendment in the Citizens United decision, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority: …[w]hen Government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get
Thursday, in his resounding defense of the First Amendment in the Citizens United decision, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority: …[w]hen Government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get
What a week! Scott Brown defeats Martha Coakley in Massachusetts. “Health Care” on the ropes in Congress. Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission puts paid to most of McCain-Feingold and breathes new life into the First Amendment. Air America crashes
Washington Post: Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said that if the public waits for Congress to pass climate legislation, “that might not happen, in a year or two, or five or six
Sources on the Hill tell Big Government that the nomination of Ben Bernanke to remain Chairman of the Federal Reserve is in deep trouble. A Senior Capitol Hill Staffer said to Big Government, “if [Senate Majority Leader] Reid does not
It has become clear that health care reform in its present state has nothing to do with delivering quality healthcare to the American people. The idea of universal coverage, with protection against insurance company wrongs (e.g., denying patients for pre-existing
**Link Fixed** Today the United States Supreme Court released its decision in the case of Citizens United vs. the Federal Election Commission. This long overdue decision is a victory not only for Citizens United but also for the First Amendment.
From today’s Washington Times: If your finances looked like the federal budget, you wouldn’t get elected. You’d get arrested. Under the Democrats’ iron-fisted, one-party rule of Washington, family budgets shrink and the federal budget bloats: The deficit, the debt and
Towards the end of the post on Wednesday in which I attempted an assessment of George W. Bush’s two terms as President, I took Bush to task for betraying his oath of office and signing McCain Feingold — a bill
The Citizens United decision is a powerful rebuke to the forces that believe our Constitution is less a solid foundation of our democracy then a political pretzel to be bent and twisted into any form the politicians choose. Sadly, far
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United–holding that the government may not use campaign finance laws to silence the political speech of corporations–is the most significant First Amendment decision of the past decade. In holding that “the First Amendment
Suddenly, all the condescending ‘tea-bagger’ jokes must not be quite so funny in liberal circles. Serves them right. Losing the seat formerly held by the champion of socialized medicine – in the bluest of states – apparently hasn’t phased the
