Morning Bell: Obama’s Sequester Smokescreen
Suppose you desperately needed to lose weight but had a Big Mac with fries and a Coke staring you in the face. You could take… Read More
European Union Loophole Allows Iran to Circumvent Full Force of Sanctions
A technical loophole is allowing the theocratic regime in Iran to skirt the full force of economic sanctions meant to compel the country to give… Read More
Millennials: How the Debt Impacts Us (VIDEO)
The growing national debt demands immediate attention and real solutions from America’s elected leadership. That was the message delivered yesterday by a group of young… Read More
Education Secretary Duncan’s Hyperbolic Sequester Rhetoric
During an interview on “Face the Nation” this past Sunday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan employed the Obama Administration’s Chicken Little sequester rhetoric, this time about… Read More
India Stays on Path to Economic Failure
Thursday was a really bad day for the Indian economy. Gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the October–December quarter came in at 4.5 percent, continuing… Read More
St. Louis Fed Report Finds Imports, Not Exports, the Lifeblood of U.S. Manufacturing
A new report published in the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review provides strong evidence that the Administration’s obsessive focus on boosting exports as… Read More
Education News
Organizing for Action Uses Discredited Information on Sequestration
President Obama’s campaign organization is using discredited information and misleading numbers in its latest effort to lobby Congress to stop sequestration. An email sent today… Read More
Department of Energy: No Room for Sequestration Cuts?
President Obama is touring the country and campaigning against the spending cuts under sequestration, such as cuts to energy research. The Department of Energy (DOE)… Read More
Financial Transactions Tax Is Back – Again
Two Members of Congress are reportedly trying again to impose an excise tax on certain financial transactions—i.e., the “Robin Hood tax.” A financial transactions tax… Read More
SecurityNews
British Report Supports Heritage Analysis of al-Qaeda Threat
On Monday, the Britain-based think tank the Henry Jackson Society—named for Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson of Washington—published a major report by co-authors Robin Simcox and… Read More
EconomyNews
Bernanke’s Defense of Fed Policies Neither Comforting nor Convincing
Do the risks from the Federal Reserve’s trillion-dollar annual stimulus program justify the rewards? That was the central question at Tuesday’s Senate Banking Committee hearing… Read More
Morning Bell: The Best Part of the Oscars 2013
America has been buzzing about the dresses, the stars, the winners, and the hit films all week. But the most important part of the Oscars… Read More
Small Business Administration: No Room for Sequestration Cuts?
The White House warns that sequestration “would reduce loan guarantees to small businesses by up to $902 million”—loans that it claims are “investments that are… Read More
3 Years of Obamacare: Millions Lose Their Current Coverage
Obamacare has been law for nearly three years, with its anniversary approaching on March 23. And while the major provisions (exchange subsidies and Medicaid expansion)… Read More
India Property Rights: Not a New Problem
For the past few weeks, India’s internal turmoil has been on display via news headlines on rape, widespread poverty, and continued civil conflict. Foreign Affairs… Read More
EconomyNews
America’s Double Jeopardy: Surging Debt and Waning Economic Freedom
A new study on public debt presented at the recent University of Chicago Booth School of Business monetary policy forum in New York has highlighted… Read More
Sequestration Will Make the U.S. Less Safe, Despite CATO’s Claims to Contrary
A February 26 article by CATO Institute Analyst Christopher A. Preble wrongly asserts that the imposition of automatic spending cuts, called sequestration, will not make… Read More
Obama Suddenly Cares About the Military When It Serves His Interest
President Obama visited Newport News Shipyard yesterday—the largest naval shipbuilding facility in the world—to warn of sequestration’s effects on the U.S. Navy. Yet throughout his… Read More
VIDEO: Obama’s 13 Tax Hikes in 2013
President Obama is crisscrossing the country to scare Americans about sequestration. But what’s really frightening are the 13 Obama tax hikes that took effect in… Read More
Morning Bell: Voting Rights at the Supreme Court Today
To understand what’s going on in the Supreme Court today, we have to go back in time. The year was 1965. Hundreds of people gathered… Read More
Benghazi Snags the Brennan Nomination
The White House reportedly agreed on Friday to provide the Senate Intelligence Committee with documents on the terrorist attack against the U.S. diplomatic mission in… Read More
Obamacare Budget Bombshell
Then: In his September 9, 2009, speech to a joint session of Congress, President Obama declared, “I will not sign a plan that adds one… Read More
News
Violence Against Women Act: Substitute Amendment Fails to Address the Underlying Problems
Fighting domestic violence is not, and never has been, a partisan issue. Everyone is against domestic violence. However, Members of Congress should be concerned that… Read More
LawNews
“Violence Against Women” Act: House Bill Better but Still Flawed
The House has proposed its own reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). It is an improvement over the Senate bill, but it, too,… Read More
SocietyNews
Rick Warren: Religious Freedom Ensures Other Freedoms
Pastor Rick Warren stressed the importance of religious liberty to sustaining other basic freedoms during an interview at Georgetown University on February 12. Warren, the… Read More
Hagel’s Distorted Views on India
Former Senator Chuck Hagel’s (R–NE) unfounded comments on India’s role in Afghanistan during a speech in 2011 provide yet another indication that he is poorly… Read More
Health CareNews
Congressmen: Obama Admin Can’t “Pick and Choose” Who Gets Religious Freedom
On February 19, nine U.S. Senators and two U.S. Representatives joined a “friend of the court” brief in Hobby Lobby’s 10th Circuit Court appeal over… Read More
National Institutes of Health: No Room for Sequestration Cuts?
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) made it onto an Obama Administration fact sheet listing the “most damaging effects of a sequester on the middle… Read More
Fake Twitter Accounts? Obama’s Political Group Pushes Gun Control
How far would President Obama’s supporters go to make his message dominant on gun control? Too far, according to Representative Steve Stockman’s (R-TX) office, which… Read More
Chinese Cyber Attacks: Take Off the Kid Gloves
Last week, Mandiant, a private company, released a report that identified a specific bureau of China’s military as responsible for hacking massive amounts of data… Read More
