Reuters reports: Recession Hurts Medicare and Social Security. The New York Times blares: Recession Drains Social Security and Medicare. And CNN follows suit: Recession Hits… Read More
So, would President Obama’s budget plan really increase deficit spending much more than other modern presidents? Well, yeah, to the tune of seven times more,… Read More
If former presidential candidate Ralph Nader, the greenest of all the greens, the man who played an integral role in starting the Environmental Protection Agency… Read More
The Institute for Economic Affairs, the prestigious British think-tank, has released a comprehensive, two hundred page long, study of the causes of the financial crash…. Read More
Fresh out of a roundtable hearing in the Senate Finance Committee this morning on models for financing health care reform, Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming… Read More
EPA Holds ‘Smoking Gun’ Memo from the White House [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-SvGLPjm5w[/youtube] Today I exposed a “smoking gun” White House memo to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)…. Read More
Now, if only she can convince President Obama to stop proposing even more new taxes, like today’s Soda Tax, yesterday’s Estate Tax hike proposal or… Read More
Moscow is viewing the EU’s new project – the Eastern Partnership – with suspicion. The Kremlin believes the decision to establish the group (made up… Read More
Last week the Department of Labor released an employment report showing that U.S. employers shed 611,000 private sector jobs in the first three months of… Read More
In the weeks leading up to last week’s release of “stress test” results, there was quite a bit of talk about more bailout money for… Read More
The New York Times reports: Hartmarx, known for its Hart Schaffner & Marx and Hickey Freeman suits, and for making President Obama’s inauguration tuxedo and… Read More
President Obama is proposing raising more than $100 billion in new taxes from American businesses by limiting their ability to defer tax on profits earned… Read More
The Washington Post first published this graphic back on March 21st. Since that time the Obama administration’s projected deficit numbers have only become more far-fetched…. Read More
Draft legislation is circulating on the Hill to repeal the REAL ID Act. Passed in 2005, with bipartisan support, the REAL ID Act requires states… Read More
Yesterday, in what President Barack Obama described as a “watershed event”, the health care industry promised to cut $2 trillion in costs over 10 years… Read More
The economic costs associated with a cap and trade policy are real. Republicans and Democrats alike realize this and have urged caution that a bill… Read More
Although not necessarily what you think of when it comes to big oil, suppliers to extract and produce oil come in all sizes – including… Read More
Harold Koh, the nominee for Legal Adviser to the State Department, supports “the global regulation of small arms” and a “global gun control regime.” And… Read More
The front page of the New York Times today has an article on China building cleaner coal-fired plants. The title and the article are fairly… Read More
In case you weren’t reading the New York Times front page today, we wanted to point you to an especially disturbing story. The Times wrote about… Read More
This past week, we live-blogged about Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano’s admission during a Senate hearing that she still supports the Dream Act, a… Read More
Looking to revive health care reform in Congress, the Obama administration is touting an announcement today by large health care trade associations including the American… Read More
Last week we noted that the Obama administration’s stimulus package had made the federal government, for the first time in our nation’s history, the main… Read More
In a surprisingly frank statement this morning, General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson confirmed that the Treasury Department is calling the shots on the company’s on-going… Read More
The Washington Post editorialized today in favor of a compromise on card-check, including snap elections or mandatory union access to company premises, because – they… Read More
This past Friday the Department of Labor released the nation’s employment’s figures showing that employers shed 611,000 private sector jobs in the first three months… Read More
Earlier today we noted that a recent MIT study showed that cap and trade energy tax proposals would cost the average American household $3,900 per… Read More
On Wednesday we exposed the farcical nature of President Barack Obama’s proposed spending “cuts” and today we posted a graphic putting his spending transfers in… Read More
Last year Former South Dakota senator and 1972 Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern came out against the Orwellian named “Employee Free Choice Act” because it… Read More
The Natural Resources Defense Council recently went after The Heritage Foundation after hosting an event with Dr. Gabriel Calzada, author of a study that concluded… Read More
