Benghazi, One Year Later
What we know about the attack in Benghazi one year after the fact is that it is an example of the Obama administration’s incompetence and mendacity. More worrisome still is…
The US job market is dead in the water and not getting better
How do you know the August jobs report was pretty bad? When the best thing you can say is that it might have met Wall Street expectations if not…
The ObamaCare bomb
The scheme is about to blow up the incentive to work A mere three weeks remain before the Obamacare exchanges open for business. The likely result will be the closing…
Benghazi: One Year Later
Nearly one year after the Benghazi terror attack, questions remain unanswered and the investigation incomplete, says Virginia Republican Rep. Frank Wolf. Even with six different committees looking into aspects of…
Worse than Carter
The “labor force participation rate” hit a record low hit at 63.2 percent. This represents the percentage of Americans over the age of 16 who have jobs (even if it is part-time or…
Why Obama Will Lose the Syria Vote in the House
by Gordon S. Jones He may not. But if he doesn’t it will most likely be because there is no vote. Getting a resolution authorizing military action on Syria through the Senate…
IRS scandal: Stop the stonewalling – America needs the truth
America can handle the truth. Even if that truth could include a coverup at the powerful IRS. The IRS mission statement pledges to “enforce the law with integrity and fairness…
Obamanomics in decline
Falling income and employment is becoming the new normal Fewer Americans will be returning to the work force after the traditional Labor Day holiday. Labor force participation is at the…
Jobless rate is worse than you think
by Heidi Shierholz On Labor Day, we celebrate the American worker. And more than four years since the Great Recession ended in June 2009, the unemployment rate is 7.4%, a big…
Prof. Walter Williams: “The civil rights struggle is won”
On WMAL’s “Mornings on the Mall” radio program (105.9 FM) in Washington, D.C., on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech, George Mason University professor Walter E.…
The Unaffordable Careless Act
Small businesses won’t grow, and more employees will work fewer hours. That’s just for starters. by Karl Rove Harvard (and later Columbia) sociologist Robert K. Merton wrote in 1936 about…
Reporters Should Get Their “PolitiFacts” Straight
“PolitiFacts” is just another example of blatant media dishonesty. It is beyond bias. by Mike Gonzalez PolitiFact is a website of the Tampa Bay Times, manned by journalists and editors.…
The Obamacare Propaganda Push
by Peter Roff Rather than devote all possible resources to the implementation of the new health care law, which even some prominent Democrats agree is going off the tracks, the…
Embracing the Imperial Presidency
by John Fund British prime minister David Cameron has recalled Parliament from summer vacation for a special session on Thursday, where there will be “a clear government motion and vote…
Historic Incompetence
We have a president who delights in delivering partisan speeches to adoring audiences but doesn’t seem interested in whether his administration gets results. by Michael Barone Evidence of the astonishing…