As Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) are working on a Senate version of comprehensive immigration reform and it includes a very controversial idea. There is a provision in the draft bill to force all Americans to possess
Barack Obama’s money train has steamrolled uncontrollably across the country, compiling record-breaking budgets, deficits, and debt along its path. Now, the train is running out of fuel, and the nation’s retirement money may find its way on board, to keep
Knowing that federal and state money doesn’t come from Obama’s stash and does come from our own paychecks and our friend’s and neighbor’s paychecks, I found the 2010 US Census form letter puzzling. Yes, I know that the census is
All this talk about reconciliation is a distraction from the bigger picture: In one year Obama has lost his own party. He can’t get them to pass his signature bill. And now he has lost their trust. (Even though the
[youtube smoNSbMs9Yo nolink] —– The Wall Street Journal: The ensemble cast of actors in HBO miniseries “The Pacific” all have a similar look…dirty. “In my memory I was dirty for a year. I could not get the dirt off of
There are only two choices: either Attorney General Eric Holder has nothing to hide, or he is trying to hide something. If the former is true, why does Holder refuse to put names to the seven anonymous Department of Justice
You’re hoping for another 1994, eh? Well, you’re not going to get it if D.C.’s biggest union bosses have their say — and they don’t just have a say, they have a checkbook to put where their mouths are. And
Spending Under the Influence: National Brewery Museum receives a $449,574 grant from the Federal Highway Administration The Secretary of Transportation says “it’s fun playing Santa Claus to states and cities around the nation” …as the Department of Transportation furloughs federal
In a further attack on the housing market, the New York Times recently reported that President Obama may be amending his loan modification program to make it even more difficult for defaulting homeowners to be foreclosed upon. The Times states:
Last week, with eyes glazed to the tube and hands filled with overflowing tubs of popcorn, the nation watched as the most powerful man in the world temporarily stepped down from his post to serve as a mere committee chairman
Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay. — Milton Friedman How dare you save and invest your hard earned money while other people waste it can’t afford to.
Several weeks after the Senate rejected Barack Obama’s plan to create a bipartisan congressional panel charged with decreasing the deficit, the president will use his executive authority to create the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. The less-powerful bipartisan
Barack Obama wants higher tax rates on the so-called rich, including steeper levies on income, capital gains, dividends, and even death! Along with other greedy politicians in Washington, he acts as if successful taxpayers are like sheep meekly awaiting slaughter.
It is more than just interesting how advertisers are rebelling against free television’s current crop of lurid, creepy content. For the Hollywood elite, this is a canary in the coal mine, and they should heed that figurative dead bird’s warning.
The Conservative 100, DBKP’s bi-weekly ratings of the most popular conservative websites came out today, and though the top ten places stayed the same, there were plenty of changes elsewhere. Fox News, Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal, The Drudge Report,
I come bearing bad news. Reform of our financial services industry is going to be a failure. Leave aside the preconceived notions that politicians will come up with faulty or halfhearted regulations, that they are writing bills in cahoots with
Courtesy of the great Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds, and PJTV comes this lovely interview with the face of the next generation of conservatives, Lyda Loudon, who’s all of fourteen years old. The interview was conducted during the recent National Tea Party
Daniel Henninger: Nothing–not even George W. Bush–has sent liberaldom screaming into the streets more than the Supreme Court’s recent 5-4 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The Court’s ruling that corporations have a free-speech right to express opinions
It has been reported, a company by the name of PharmAthene, which is closely tied to the late Congressman John Murtha and Tara O’Toole, an Under Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has received preferential treatment by our
Short answer: nobody knows. But given that the West has consistently underestimated — or misrepresented — the Iranian government’s intentions and capabilities, maybe we ought to be paying attention. Especially since they’ve warned us about a stunning “punch” today. Farsi
It’s just so amazing how the Progressive Left is the champion of minorities and the elderly. Champions that is, so long as those demographics don’t dare dissent from the rigid party ideology. If any among the members of these otherwise
Despite repeated, uxorious, absurdly one-sided endorsements from the liberal media, the February 4 vote on President Obama’s year-old nomination of “darling of the left” Dawn Johnsen to head the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) has mercifully been postponed.
If you’re the President of the United States or one of his political appointees and you’re ideologically opposed to new oil and natural gas development offshore, what do you do when the public registers its overwhelming support for new drilling
“America must always stand on the side of human dignity.” – President Barack Obama I would like to thank the mainstream media for remembering Gao Zhisheng. One should give credit where credit is due, and in this case, it is
The media and the Left cannot let a Sarah Palin appearance go by without trying to find something–anything–to discredit her. It’s become not only predictable, but downright funny. The latest drive-by assault on Palin–that she wrote 6 words on her
