The Silent Treatment: BP CEO Tony Hayward and President Obama
News reports today on the oil spill in the Gulf have centered on the president’s crude remarks that he was looking for an “a** to… Read More
News reports today on the oil spill in the Gulf have centered on the president’s crude remarks that he was looking for an “a** to… Read More
President Obama, joined by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, is holding a televised Town Hall Meeting today on the benefits of his big health care law… Read More
This morning White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and budget director Peter Orszag will release a memo directing all federal agency heads “to develop… Read More
Tomorrow, a new documentary, The Lottery, will premier in Washington, DC. The film is based on the Harlem charter school lottery: a luck-of-the-draw process to… Read More
Friday brought yet another grim jobs report. The economy created 431,000 jobs in May according to the report, but 411,000 of them were temporary government… Read More
On Monday, two men were arrested trying to leave JFK Airport in New York. The men, Moahamed Mahmood Alessa and Carlos Eduardo Almonte planned to… Read More
I previously reported for National Review Online on the memorable going-away speech by Christopher Coates, the former career head of the Voting Section in the… Read More
When the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government could not ban books in order to protect incumbents from critical speech, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann compared… Read More
The United States isn’t the only country in North America grappling with the fiscal problems caused by an aging population and mounting federal deficits—Canada faces… Read More
Last Friday’s Department of Labor jobs report, which showed private sector job creation fell by 190,000 between April and May of this year, jolted markets… Read More
In an ode to irony, The Fiscal Times reports that President Obama’s Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (more popularly known as the “debt commission”)… Read More
Heritage analysts Rea Hederman and James Sherk write about the June Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) employment reportr: “(BLS) announced that net employment increased by… Read More
The Obama administration’s Race to the Top program presents states with a choice: adopt national standards for academic performance, or refuse desperately-needed federal dollars. The… Read More
Health care reform was supposed to lower health care spending while expanding access for the uninsured. Instead, though Obamacare will cost taxpayers trillions, it will… Read More
Heritage budget analyst Steve Keen, rightly points out that the Republican Study Committee (RSC) has unveiled a budget proposal that “is a welcome fiscal blueprint… Read More
Recent developments in Congress now make clear that Congressional leadership is willing to go through all of 2010 without a death tax in order to… Read More
According to The New York Times, Secretary Gates has told the Pentagon to tighten its belt to pay for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and… Read More
This Wednesday in Pittsburgh, President Barack Obama defended his administration’s economic policies telling the audience at Carnegie Mellon University: “Now, I’ve never believed that government… Read More
Last week, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Tom Price (R-GA) introduced the Republican Study Committee (RSC) FY2011 budget. This is a welcome fiscal blueprint that… Read More
The National Survey of Family Growth has just released new results for the years 2006-08 and the findings about teens’ attitudes toward marriage and childbearing… Read More
Attempted terrorist attacks are on the rise and we should expect more to come according to a recent memo from the Department of Homeland Security…. Read More
Last month, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) gave the keynote address to the American Federation for Children Policy Summit in Washington, DC. You can… Read More
SecurityNews
America’s Navy sails alone. It’s impossible to compare the U.S. Fleet to the rest of the world’s navies, because the United States has a singular… Read More
Heritage Middle East analyst Jim Phillips makes a pretty good case that the Israeli confrontation with a convoy at sea bound for Gaza was a… Read More
The infamous words “a crisis is a terrible thing to waste” were first uttered by President Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel last year, when… Read More
In the wake of the moratorium on offshore drilling projects that President Obama announced late last month, The New Orleans Times-Picayune has attempted to measure… Read More
CATO’s Dan Mitchell has a new Center for Freedom and Prosperity video out titled “Bureaucrats vs. Taxpayers” on how “government workers have now become a… Read More
A growing number of states have decided not to participate in the Obama administration’s Race to the Top grant program, forgoing hundreds of millions of… Read More
Yesterday, the federal district court for the District of Columbia issued an injunction against the Federal Election Commission in SpeechNow.org v. FEC. As a former… Read More
The Washington Post editorialized yesterday: Montgomery County has just completed a nightmarish budget year. Stressed, squabbling and besieged elected officials savaged services and programs and… Read More
