Hatch Wants Answers on NLRB Official’s Ties to Criminal Activity
Richard Griffin, whom President Obama illegally appointed to the National Labor Relations Board, never had to answer a single question from U.S. senators – or… Read More
Russian Demands Are Still Not a Reason to Abandon U.S. Missile Defense
Continuing its longstanding opposition to U.S. missile defense,Russia has demanded to know the parameters of the proposed missile defense shield in Europe and ways to… Read More
Morning Bell: Dodd-Frank Financial Regulations Strangling Economy
Has your bank raised its fees or stopped offering free checking accounts in the last couple of years? If so, you can thank the regulatory… Read More
Online Chat on Welfare Reform – LIVE NOW
Last week, the Obama administration bypassed Congress to gut the successful 1996 welfare reform law of its work requirements. Click here to join us right… Read More
Obama Administration Rebuffs Congressional Inquiry on Legality of Gutting Welfare Reform
Two Members of Congress demanded an official explanation from Obama’s Health and Human Services Department (HHS) for its gutting of welfare work requirements—and HHS responded… Read More
China Likes American Stuff, and That’s Good
China’s State Administration for Foreign Exchange is buying $1.5 billion worth of pension assets from General Motors. The assets are positions in funds held by… Read More
O Canada: Riding High on Greater Economic Freedom
A recent Canadian study examining average household wealth in Canada and the U.S. reported something quite shocking. According to the study, the average Canadian has… Read More
Family Fact of the Week: How Welfare Reform Helped Families
The best anti-poverty program is a job. That was the mantra of the 1996 welfare reform, which changed the Aid to Families with Dependent Children… Read More
Health CareNews
Side Effects: Unlawful Use of $8.3 Billion in Taxpayer Dollars?
Last week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) sent a letter to Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius raising questions over her legal… Read More
Obama Proposes Federal Paychecks for Local Teachers
This week, President Obama proposed a new $1 billion federal program that would establish a “Master Teacher Corps” in 100 locations across the country. This… Read More
Morning Bell: Let’s Be Honest About Outsourcing
Both candidates in the presidential race have been accusing the other of “outsourcing.” It’s one of those words that is loaded with negative meaning, implying… Read More
VIDEO: House Conservatives Answer Your Questions
House conservatives gather this morning to take your questions about taxes, sequestration and a range of other issues facing Congress in the coming weeks and… Read More
Just What We Need: A Bureaucracy for Professional Boxing
A recent poll of American voters found that their top concern is the fair and accurate ranking of professional boxers. Not really, of course, but… Read More
Evangelical Wheaton College Joins HHS Mandate Lawsuit
Wheaton College, a leading evangelical postsecondary educational institution, has joined the chorus of organizations suing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) over its… Read More
Needless and Irresponsible Delays on Congressional Appropriations
After weeks of decent progress in advancing the fiscal year (FY) 2013 appropriations bills—the annual spending bills that finance the operations of government agencies—the process,… Read More
U.S. Nuclear Triad Essential for National Security
General Robert Kehler, the current commander of the Strategic Command, offered only tepid support for the existing U.S. nuclear triad during a July 12 speech… Read More
Marissa Mayer & the Gender Gap That Wasn’t
A woman won’t become the CEO of anything if she is overly focused on the so-called “gender gap” in her field. Marissa Mayer is the… Read More
Morning Bell: The End of Welfare Reform As We Know It
The Obama Administration made yet another end run around Congress last week—this time, to gut the successful welfare reform law of 1996. If this is… Read More
Congress Rightly Seeks Details on Defense-Devastating Sequestration
With the commander in chief refusing to address the crippling, automatic cuts to national defense scheduled to start on January 2, Congress is appropriately stepping… Read More
Obama Ends Welfare Reform as We Know It, Calls for $12.7 Trillion in New Welfare Spending
Last Thursday, the Obama Administration quietly issued new bureaucratic rules that overturned the popular welfare reform law of 1996. This was an illegal move, and… Read More
WATCH: Citizen United’s David Bossie Previews ‘Occupy Unmasked’ Film
Liberals are still lavishing praise on the Occupy movement, months after it dissipated. The most recent example came Monday from Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne,… Read More
Conservative Opposition Puts Future of Farm Bill in Doubt
The farm bill won approval from the House Agriculture Committee last week on a 35-11 vote. But it faces an uncertain future with mounting conservative… Read More
New Poll: Majority of Americans Want to Stop Tax Hikes for All Incomes
A new poll shows the majority of Americans—including those on the low end of the income spectrum—are against hiking taxes for those making more than… Read More
Obama’s Gutting of Welfare Reform Is Illegal
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has a General Counsel and legal staff to ensure that the agency’s actions are lawful. Did they… Read More
Push to Inform the Public on Disastrous Defense Cuts Continues
House Armed Services Committee member Randy Forbes (R–VA) continues to educate the general public about the potentially dangerous defense cuts mandated by sequestration under the… Read More
Obama Administration Broadens Gender Quotas in Higher Ed
Last week, the Obama Administration issued new regulations broadening Title IX of the Higher Education Act—the part of law barring sex-based discrimination in education programs… Read More
Red Tape Exacerbates Wildfire Trouble
Fighting wildfires on federal land involves navigating a maze of regulations and differences in government agency approval, according to a Washington Times report. The decision of whether… Read More
Morning Bell: Obama Tells Entrepreneurs “You Didn’t Build” Your Business
That sound you hear is silence—as millions of small business owners and entrepreneurs were left speechless this weekend from President Obama’s latest insult. The slap… Read More
Cloakroom: July 16 – July 20
House Cloakroom Analysis: This week the House will turn its attention to defense funding. The major bill on the floor this week will be the… Read More
State Department Still Balking on Calling Out Terrorists in Nigeria
There is some confusion in Foggy Bottom as to how the United States ought to define Boko Haram, an Islamic militant group based in northern… Read More
