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You’ve heard the expression “building on success.” Where you identify something that’s working – and work to maximize and further broaden its fruition. In large part by determining what’s working – and seeking to replicate it. The Left has always

The transformation of General Motors (GM) to Government Motors (GM) has cost a lot of Americans a lot of money. Many, many of them under questionable and in fact illegal circumstances. Let us begin with the $50 billion ‘We the

We have oft-written about the flagrant disingenuousness of very many of the D.C. political class. What those of us here in the Real World refer to as “lying.” This serial falsehood-ity is executed in large part to buttress and bolster

If you are the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a company that has received $50 billion in federal bailout coin, there are certain things that you realistically shouldn’t say or do. Both from a substantive policy and an optics perspective,

To the unrestrained amusement of the completely disengaged Democrats in the Senate and White House, the House Republican Leadership spent all day yesterday, indeed all week, beating the heck out of their conservative, Tea Party contingent to vote for an

In this, the third Age of Bailout, the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)’s $50 billion General Motors (GM) bailout (upped from $20 billion by President Barack Obama) is yet another unmitigated disaster. But a few of the many failures: GM

The entire political landscape is currently engulfed in debt ceiling flames, for largely artificial and concocted reasons. This man-made inferno is now centered around and fixated upon the August 2 so-called “drop dead” date for reaching a deal to raise

President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats face in 2012 running for reelection into the stiff headwind of a terrible economy – largely of their own making. In just the last four years, the federal government – run by a

When it comes to the Barack Obama Administration and “deregulation,” their words are often belied by their actions. In January, President Obama placed quill to parchment for the Wall Street Journal and claimed his Administration had since Day One worked

When it comes to the Barack Obama Administration and “deregulation,” their words are often belied by their actions. In January, President Obama placed quill to parchment for the Wall Street Journal and claimed his Administration had since Day One worked

In the Bizarro-world that is Washington, D.C. – and the federal government in possession thereof – the word “success” does not mean what it does here on Planet Earth. It in fact often means exactly the opposite. Let us take

General Motors (GM) continues apace its government-backed conversion from a company existing to manufacture automobiles for money – into a fully-formed, Leftist ideological entity working as another wing of the Barack Obama Administration’s fundamental transformation of America. A de facto

We are in the throes of the Barack Obama Administration’s systematic, systemic assault of the free market. Every facet of our nation where private endeavor has brought us to the heights of individual achievement and general populace betterment is now

We have recently heard very much about the Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)-induced flood of released documents. They show that the anti-free market group Free Press worked quite closely with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) uber-Democrat Commissioner Michael Copps

We have oft discussed the Orwellian manner Leftists do, well, everything. And specifically how they go about naming their gaggles – the groups they form to advance their Leftist agenda. The Media Marxists looking to eradicate all private ownership of

We have seen a wide array of Barack Obama Administration wings make up jobs numbers and claims in an attempt to bolster un-bolsterable policies. First there were the gigs – not created, but allegedly “created or saved” – as the

Oh, and making them obey the law. —– The Barack Obama Administration has at their dictatorial behest a LOT of rogue Agencies, Departments and Commissions. Wings of the Executive Branch Leviathan that have – under orders from the President, his

(And we do not mean this august publication.) John Donne famously said no man is an island. He didn’t live to see the Media Marxists and their absurd policy positions. These Leftist alleged media “reformers” incessantly demand massive government insertion

Yet another not so great week for Government Motors (GM). A pseudo-private company of which We the People still possess 33% – residual ownership that dates back to the combined December 2008/May 2009 $49.9 billion bailout. At first glance, you

The domestic Right has for decades been calling for a reduction in the size, scope and sphere of influence of government. All the while, we have endured an excruciating and – it had begun to seem – inexorable growth of

People who inhabit our nation’s capital get treated entirely differently than those of us in the Real World. The DC Denizens enjoy a much higher lifestyle – while being held to a much lower standard. For instance, when we Suckers

Those of the Left rarely like to admit or acknowledge that they are of the Left. Witness their repeated vacillations on what they call themselves. It was “progressive” – until people figured out what that meant and loathed it. So

Literally. Perhaps the grammatically incorrect name was a factor. A 2011 Chevy Cruze (unfortunately, sic) was tooling down the highway at 65 miles per hour. In it was a grandmother, her daughter and her 19-month old grandson. Suddenly, the steering

We have repeatedly written about our having to endure between now and November 2012 the intentional policy and political schizophrenia of the Barack Obama Administration. For public consumption – with the perpetual assistance of his servile media – there will

We’ve already seen the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in illegal and extraordinary fashion commandeer control of the Internet – so as to then impose the ridiculous notion that is Network Neutrality. Which remains a solution running around looking for a

The Congressional Review Act (CRA) Resolution of Disapproval of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s December 21st illegal Internet power grab, executed so they could then impose Network Neutrality – will be marked up today, and brought to the House floor

We have twice already looked at the debacle that is General Motors (GM) under the TARP-bought, government-sponsored guidance of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dan Akerson. It’s been terrible. And it’s getting much, much worse. What we are witnessing is what

One of the myriad problems the vast majority of Americans have with President Barack Obama’s ridiculous foray into Libyan civil war side-choosing is – we don’t know who it is we’re helping to oust Muammar Gaddafi. With whom are we

There has been a bit of a lull in the push to undo the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s obnoxious December 21st Internet takeover – executed so that they could then impose Network Neutrality. This stillness is understandable, given the avenues

The $7.2 billion broadband portion of the federal government’s nearly $1 trillion “stimulus” law has been counterproductive and destructive from the moment President Barack Obama signed it. There are myriad examples of these mountains of money being spent terribly. Well,

We have discussed quite a bit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s December 21 unauthorized, unilateral Internet power grab – instigated and rammed through by its Chairman Julius Genachowski so as to impose the ridiculous notion that is Network Neutrality. We

(Amazingly intricate and complicated photo/map courtesy of Peer1.)

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski has a bit of reputation for not liking conflict – and avoiding it whenever possible. An excellent way of attempting to do this is to say whatever it is each person with whom

How do bonuses equal to 50% of your annual salary sound? Wait – how do they sound if you’re not receiving them – but paying for them? And (most likely) on salaries far greater than the one you’re currently earning.

Governments throughout the world – Egypt, Iran, Syria, China, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, and on and on – block or dramatically control their peoples’ access to the Internet. We in America have enjoyed a government-free Web. Which has led to

Tucked into the fatty, flabby folds of the nearly $1 trillion alleged “stimulus” bill foisted upon us (and our children, and their children, with interest) in 2009 was $7.2 billion for broadband Internet projects. And from what we’ve learned, it’s