The Fake Jobs of Obama’s Government Union Bailout
When President Barack Obama signed the latest bailout for spendthrift states and government unions, he claimed the $10 billion earmarked for education spending would save… Read More
When President Barack Obama signed the latest bailout for spendthrift states and government unions, he claimed the $10 billion earmarked for education spending would save… Read More
It looks like ethics and transparency are yet again taking a back seat at the Obama White House, this time with the little-noticed news that… Read More
In the coming months, lots of people will be cranking up their computers and burning up the airwaves with commentary on the just-announced departure of… Read More
Last week we were attacked by the sun. For real. Huge solar eruptions sent a blast of radiation toward Earth. Thankfully, the planet’s natural magnetic… Read More
The New York Times reports today that only 8.4% of the $3.2 billion Congress included in President Barack Obama’s failed stimulus to create green jobs… Read More
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) likes to say that Congressional earmarking has become the gateway drug to federal overspending. Is there any better evidence of this… Read More
Is the modern incandescent light bulb ready to retire from society and find its final resting place in the halls of the American History Museum?… Read More
Last week, Sens. Tom Coburn (R-OK) and John McCain (R-AZ) released a report detailing 100 wasteful economic stimulus projects including $144,541 in stimulus funds to… Read More
With the introduction of new legislation to implement the Automatic IRA—a simple, low-cost retirement savings vehicle for employees of small businesses—the effort to enable many… Read More
As we have been reporting, President Barack Obama is set to let tax rates increase at the end of this year. Obama’s tax hike will… Read More
Now that the congressional money tree has bloomed again, this time in the form of new stimulus money for the states, we are faced with… Read More
Next week, for the fifth time since July, the first family will board Air Force One for yet another luxury vacation, this time to an… Read More
As businesses along the Gulf Coast patiently await the expiration of President Obama’s offshore drilling moratorium, they’re faced with a new hardship: Neither BP nor… Read More
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Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision to lift the stay on his ruling striking down California’s voter-approved Proposition 8 is, fortunately, not the last word on whether… Read More
The House of Representatives rushed back to Washington yesterday in the middle of their six-week vacation to pass yet another bailout. This latest one, $26… Read More
President Obama wishes everyone would stop talking about the oil spill. His federal government’s response has been incompetent at best, malevolent at worst. Yet, lacking… Read More
In recent weeks, WikiLeaks published tens of thousands of classified documents, giving Taliban fighters a virtual death list of Afghan “collaborators.” At the same time,… Read More
When economists forecast the economy, they tend to draw straight lines. They figure out where we are and where we’re going, and they plot a… Read More
Both sides of the same-sex marriage debate reacted strongly to Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision in Perry v. Schwarzenegger to overturn Prop 8 in California. What… Read More
On July 21, when President Barack Obama signed the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill, he promised: “There will be no more taxpayer-funded bailouts. Period.” How long… Read More
Every once in a while an e-mail goes around petitioning for the ban of dihydrogen monoxide, a dangerous chemical. The reader is aghast to learn… Read More
Tucked away in the legislation that made Obamacare into law is a tax provision that will be a compliance nightmare for small businesses if it… Read More
The House of Representatives just passed the $26 billion education “jobs” bill by a vote of 247-161. The money will be split up with $10… Read More
Social Security faces the serious danger of failing to live up to its name due to its unfunded obligations. Last week, the Social Security and… Read More
ACORN might have disbanded, but the risk of vote fraud in the November 2010 elections is still real. “Desperate men and women will do desperate… Read More
According to the translation of an article appearing in the Russian newspaper Suvorovskiy Natisk on July 17, the Vostok 2010 Russian military exercise concluded with… Read More
The fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and all its attendant devastation, is a good reminder that the federalization of natural disasters by the Federal Emergency… Read More
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs did not give the White House daily press briefing yesterday. The stated excuse was a bad cough. But there… Read More
Take heed, America. The next time you visit Washington, D.C., feel free to stand in awe of the monuments to our greatest leaders, but do… Read More
The mainstream media is having a field day with House Minority Leader John Boehner’s (R–OH) less-than-stellar handling of a simple “when did you stop beating… Read More
