Why President Obama and Democrats Want a Government Shutdown
by Peter Roff The short narrative, compiled by people with even shorter memories, is that the United States government got to the brink of a shutdown because the unreasonable House…
Clinton donors get a pass on shady contracting
by Kerri Houston Tolozcko In June 2011, the Defense Department’s Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) released a scathing report on a defense contracting company called…
Update on NSA gathering data on social connections of U.S. citizens
Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections that can identify their associates, their locations…
Coalition Letter to Gov. Walker on Casino Gambling
September 20, 2013 Governor Scott Walker P.O. Box 7863 Madison, WI 53707-7863 Dear Governor Walker: We are writing to thank you for putting forward family and job friendly criteria…
ObamaCare: It’s unsustainable; better to scrap it and start anew
Confirming the disconnect between the empty-promise pretenses on which ObamaCare was sold and its real-world effects in practice is a new report from Medicare actuaries that says health spending in…
Weakness matters
Projecting weakness ultimately ties the hands of the weak leader and pushes him into small thinking and reflexive action. I usually stay away from using current polls to gauge how…
With A Little Creative Thinking, Detroit Can Again Thrive
by Kerri Toloczko House flipping is trendy for American real estate investors, and a spectator sport for those addicted to shows like “Flip This House.” Although Detroit ‘s extreme fiscal…
Stubborn and Selfish on Healthcare
The majority of Americans don’t want the flawed ObamaCare, so why is the president pushing it? So the Republican-controlled House of Representatives — with the help of a couple of…
Now They Tell Us: ObamaCare Has Huge Hidden Costs
Healthcare: Just days before ObamaCare officially launches, the Newspaper of Record discovers that those allegedly low premiums liberals brag about won’t come cheap. At least, not if you want to…
Americans Are Right To Oppose ObamaCare
The Continued Blame Game: Everybody who dislikes ObamaCare is being duped by GOP propaganda, says President Obama. That must include all those unions calling it a disaster, and all those…
Growing IRS Scandal Requires A Special Prosecutor
Corruption: As the layers on the IRS scandal are peeled back, it’s become increasingly clear the law has been broken and the White House may have been far more deeply…
The Navy Yard scandal
In the liberal remake of “Casablanca,” the police captain comes upon the scene of the shooting and orders his men to “round up the usual weapons.” It’s always the weapon…
The Family, the Pursuit of Happiness, and Tax Reform
Remarks by Senator Mike Lee to the American Enterprise Institute on September 17, 2013: I am here today because I believe the public policy status quo in Washington – and…
Going to War against . . .
The President finds an enemy he’s willing to bomb – the Republicans. President Obama likes to invoke his predecessors in the Oval Office, as all Presidents do, but in one…
Disrespecting the Dead at Benghazi
During the second portion of a House Oversight and Government Reform hearing about Benghazi Thursday on Capitol Hill, the majority of Democrats on the Committee left the room and refused…