California has long had the reputation of being trend-setter to the nation. The Golden State was practicing Obamanomics back when Barack was still called Barry. And now its ways are catching up to it like a hard partier who looks
In a previous post on Big Government, I questioned why Senator Paul Kirk has not stepped down as the Senator from Massachusetts, as he should have on January 19th. Today, the attorney for Senator-elect Scott Brown stated in a letter
Many have declared the dubious “Cap and Trade” scheme dead, so Obama went ahead and had the EPA suggest they were going to impose it under their own regulations. The truth is, they’re not likely to do that. They want
Card check is looking dead at the ballot box because politicians know it makes for terrible politics. But President Obama’s administration is turning to clever, quiet regulatory efforts to push through Big Labor’s agenda — and the first item on
Sources in Washington say Sen. Frank Lautenberg is drafting a new version of his Kids Safe Chemicals Act, which stalled out in 2008 after environmentalists complained the bill was toothless and didn’t grant the EPA enough power to regulate chemicals
Senators vote against eliminating government waste and duplication, including reducing Congress’ budget for itself, while proclaiming “the United States is prepared to stand up and deal with this debt threat” Taxpayers billed $1,000 per week for booze and other “in-flight
Don’t you hate it when you go to a 50% off sale and then realize the store marked up all the prices in order to offer the big savings? Welcome to President Barack Obama’s spending freeze. It’s hard to keep
Now President Obama tells us he’s going to take the economy seriously. God help us. As the war on the economic recession grew bleak and the unemployed body count grew, Obama and the Democratic Congress were bogged down in the
Steven Greenhut has an interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal about how public employees unions are destroying California’s budget and economy. Greenhut begins by noting that with one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, California is losing
Should the National Enquirer get the Pulitzer Prize for its multi-year investigation of the John Edwards affair, scandal and cover-up? That’s a question that’s been asked lately: in some cases, at the same Mainstream Media papers which participated in the
The blogosphere is abuzz with speculation about the real identity of the strange and wonderfully timely “Ellie Light,” President Obama’s No. 1 fan and apparently the owner of more residences than Donald Trump, John McCain and John Kerry combined. Not
On paper the Citizens United case has all the makings of a solid liberal issue. First Amendment protections, considered sacrosanct by the left when a reporter is leaking classified information, are strengthened for those speaking truth to power. Both the
Bureaucrats gone wild! Taxpayers charged for international trysts, golf, skiing, and other government junkets Military officials bought thousands of dollars worth of alcohol, food and other amenities for congressional overseas junkets Delaware airport that “hardly ever sees a paying passenger”
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
In the wake of a stunning political result in Massachusetts, it’s time to assess the future Scott Brown dictates for health care, the market, the Democrats, and the country. It’s the third week of January 2010, and here’s the latest
When John McCain co-authored the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law he probably didn’t envision it helping him lose his run for the presidency in 2008, but such is the law of unintended consequences. McCain-Feingold restricted large donors from taking out ads in
In their first year in office, the Obama Administration has re-made the U.S. Department of Labor into the Department of Organized Labor, working hard to make certain that those who spent hundreds of millions of dollars to put them in
There has been much speculation that today’s Massachusetts Senate race is a referendum on health care. That may be an understatement. My guess is that this senate race could have even larger repercussions. During an appearance on “Fox News Sunday,”
The special election in Massachusetts on Tuesday for the open Senate seat once held by Teddy Kennedy is the hottest political story of the day. The race is so close that no one is sure who will win but signs
Wait, what was that? Did Martha Coakley actually say that? Yes she did. Here is the quote for those who have not heard or read it, “You can have religious freedom but you probably shouldn’t work in the emergency room.”
It’s amusing to watch President Obama try to stick it to his friends in organized labor by proposing a tax on union-negotiated health care benefits. If it weren’t for the fact that the tax proposal would have a devastating effect
If you needed another reason to be against trying KSM and his band of merry maniacal Islamists in NYC, here it is. New York City projects it will cost more than $400 million to provide security if the pre-trial preparation
Think press malpractice when, in political matters, you hear prosecutorial malpractice. Indictments by the Justice Department against five former security guards for Xe, the private-security firm and military contractor formerly known as Blackwater, were recently jettisoned by a D.C. district
The Virginia State Credit Union is mining for gold and it’s finding it. Thanks to former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, state employees are being duped into a credit product designed to take more money from their paychecks than the payday
What level of poetic justice would it be for Republican Scott Brown to win Teddy Kennedy’s senate seat and become the 41st vote to stop fauxcare? Bay Staters are being presented with the opportunity on January 19th in a special
