Even as the Obama administration postures on behalf of deficit reduction and job creation, it continues to advance policies that undermine energy production in the Gulf region and lower federal revenue, Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) has pointed out in his
From The New York Times: greenjobs_gw_03 A $500 million green jobs program at the Department of Labor has so far provided only 15 percent of current participants with jobs, leading the agency’s inspector general to recommend that the bulk of
Sarah Palin told Mark Levin on his radio show today that she will not be seeking the Republican Presidential Nomination in 2012. Palin released the following update to supporters: October 5, 2011 Wasilla, Alaska After much prayer and serious consideration,
From The Hill: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) on Tuesday further distanced his Democratic Conference from President Obama by nixing a major component of the White House’s jobs plan. Reid said he would revise parts of the proposal that
The Hill The Senate voted Monday to advance legislation pressuring the Chinese government to stop undervaluing its currency, a practice most economists agree is giving the country an unfair trade advantage and is costing the U.S. jobs. The Senate voted
In the months between George W. Bush’s first Inauguration in January of 2001 and the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Republicans in both Houses of Congress were busily patting themselves on the back for retaining control of Capitol Hill and gaining
Hopefully, it is not an ominous sign of things to come. Last week, the Senate confirmed former Kentucky insurance regulator S. Roy Woodall for the one voting position on the federal Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) reserved for someone with
From The Hill: A series of emails written in October 2010 between Jason Weinstein, the deputy assistant attorney general of DOJ’s criminal division, and James Trusty, the acting chief of the DOJ’s organized crime and gang section, reveals a fluid
With the administration rushing out billions more in these final hours before the fiscal year — and apparently their political slush fund — expires, and news reports rapidly exposing that the ‘green stimulus’ money was something of a Democrat “friends
Democrats have never been afraid to use the race card, but this is a new one. Senate Bill 5 and HB194 have nothing at all to do with race. But the union front group “We Are Ohio” and their Ohio
(Read Project Mayhem, Part I here) When he’s not busy encouraging Massachusetts voters to commit voter fraud to “keep these bastards out,” or condemning “tea party rhetoric” for not “rising to the president’s challenge on tone” while calling Laura Ingraham
From the Associated Press; A bitterly divided and poll-battered Congress has nearly worked its way out of a nasty fight over disaster aid, but only by abruptly abandoning efforts to immediately refill almost empty federal disaster relief accounts. Instead, with
Tonight on Secure Freedom Radio: Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona joins Frank to give his expert opinion on how Putin “ripped the mask off of” the current affairs in Russia. According to Senator Kyl, this is merely a continuation of
If the American Left has a Joan of Arc, her name would be Elizabeth Warren. The Harvard professor was the designer and creator of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the independent regulatory agency that was given the power to
To many conservatives, it may seem surprising that Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) would echo antitrust concerns in his aggressive questioning of Google Chairman Eric Schmidt during this week’s hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights.
Earlier this week, Congressman Tom Marino from the 10th District in Pennsylvania gave a moving speech in an attempt to influence politicians to support the citizens on the east coast devastated by recent floods. What he did is was remarkable.
Get a load of this! According to the Telegraph, Al Gore and Mikhail Gorbachev – “keen environmental campaigners” – are “fighting over the right to own and run the new domain name, .eco, which is an alternative ending to web
Jeremy Ryan is a habitual loser, or, to borrow a term from state Senator Glen Grothman (R-Wis.), a slob. Ryan is known around Madison, Wisconsin as the “Segway Boy” after his distinct mode of transportation that has made him nearly
The Institute for Energy Research (IER) in their post on Big Peace (America Can Be An Energy Superpower) make some powerful statements concerning America’s energy potential: America could have enough oil resources to meet today’s oil demand levels … for
Last weekend at Fighting Bob Fest, a left-wing get together in Madison, Mike McCabe of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign spoke to the progressive crowd about the perils of money in politics, lambasting corporate dollars and the Koch brothers. McCabe even
Nine (!) candidates sparred last night in Orlando, in the FoxNews/Google (!) debate. Reactions here, here, here, and here. There are just a few months before the Iowa caucuses, so this is pretty much the field we’re faced with. We’re
While the rest of America turns away from the big government stimulus spending programs of President Obama, at least one corporate executive is turning toward him to embrace his failed policies. Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt did the media circuit
From the Chicago Tribune: All it took to give nearly two dozen labor leaders from Chicago a windfall worth millions was a few tweaks to a handful of sentences in the state’s lengthy pension code. The changes became law with
It was announced today that Columnist Connie Schultz has resigned from the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio’s largest newspaper. Recall that we posted a story a couple of weeks ago, with video of her filming Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel at a
Despite President Obama’s urgent calls for his ojbs bill to be “passed right away,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) acknowledges that the Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate will not bring the bill up for a vote until next month at
