Pirates on the High (Internet) Seas
The booty intellectual property pirates can steal is enormous. by Peter Roff Intellectual property pirates operating in the open waters of cyberspace managed to pull down more than $250 million…
Chattanooga Volkswagen workers reject the UAW
by Michael Barone It’s official: The United Auto Workers lost the representation vote at the Volkswagen Chattanooga plant. The cleverly named nooga.com has the story. The vote was close: 89…
The IRS targets political speech again
IRS: discouraging debate and curbing information The Internal Revenue Service is used to being universally disliked every April 15. But this year, the widespread denunciations have started early, and for good…
Obamacare exemptions prove law’s folly
In his first inaugural address in 1869, President Ulysses S. Grant declared, “Laws are to govern all alike — those opposed as well as those who favor them. I know…
From the Left: Why I’m Getting Sick of Defending Obamacare
Note: Ron Fournier, like most of the left-leaning media, has been a strong defender of ObamaCare. But now, even he is admitting that it is a train wreck. Incompetence, politics,…
IRS Targeting Should Trouble All Americans
by Steve Huntley President Barack Obama maintains there’s “not even a smidgen of corruption” in the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of tea party and conservative groups, that it was just…
Obama Delays Obamacare’s Employer Mandate – Yet Again
During a visit to Monticello with the President of France on Monday, President Obama quipped, “That’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.” Some would argue…
January: a chilly month for jobs
After the U.S. economy added only a disappointing 74,000 jobs in December, the worst month of job creation in three years, economists expected the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on…
Inflated, inaccurate numbers
by Byron York Democrats from President Obama on down have been touting Obamacare’s sign-up numbers. Even after the system’s disastrous rollout, they like to point out, roughly three million people…
The IRS’ New Target: The First Amendment
Proposed rules governing political groups are surely unconstitutional. by Peter Roff President Barack Obama can be forgiven for telling Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly that there wasn’t a “smidgen” of corruption…
IRS ‘Confusion’? Hardly!
New evidence undercuts White House claims that the IRS was merely confused about the law and never purposefully targeted conservatives. IRS e-mail shows they were secretly planning the recently proposed regulations which essentially…
CBO: Devastating Obamacare Facts
Then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said at the time of the passage of the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) that we had to pass it to find out…
Obamacare will reduce incomes of most Americans
There’s no doubt the Affordable Care Act will redistribute wealth in America. People at the top of the income ladder will pay more; people at the bottom will benefit. But…
Obama Using the IRS to Quash Dissent
by George Landrith When the House Ways & Means Subcommittee on Oversight grills the Internal Revenue Service’s John Koskinen next week about his scandal-plagued agency, it would do well to…
Stoking class warfare to win midterm elections
Income Inequality talk is not about helping the poor, its about trying to cling to power. Sadly, the American dream is in trouble precisely because of policies designed to win…