By Rick Manning Labor Day is the traditional last day of summer, often celebrated by final trips to the shore and followed by public pool closings and other signs that the world is battening down the hatches for colder weather. However what most don’t realize is that […]

By Robert Romano $128 billion and counting. That is Investor’s Business Daily’s latest tally of settlements the Obama Justice Department has extracted from the U.S. banking industry in connection with the 2008 financial crisis, as Bank of America agreed to another $17 billion in payouts over losses stemming from its 2009 acquisition of Countrywide. Included is $5 billion as a penalty paid to the federal […]

By Alan Caruba Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), the Irish poet and dramatist, wrote “Pray don’t talk to me about the weather. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else.” These days, when some world leader or […]

By Rick Manning The Boston Consulting Group just released a study comparing manufacturing costs around the world, and the United States fared surprisingly well.  Writing about the U.S. and Mexico, the authors explain the improved manufacturing environment saying, “Because of low wage growth, sustained productivity gains, stable exchange rates, and […]

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By Ron Arnold While all eyes turn to the gunfire and Molotov cocktails of War Zone  Ferguson , Mo., many minds turn to questions of mindless faith in the political establishment. What’s happening to us? One such mind belongs to basketball champion turned actor and best-selling […]

In the continued fights to keep Common Core standards from being implemented in Louisiana, Governor Bobby Jindal filed suit against the Obama administration’s aggressive push to force the federally-controlled education program on the state. Jindal argues in the lawsuit that the government has violated the state’s Tenth […]

By Nathan Mehrens This Labor Day weekend as you see labor union leaders extolling the supposed virtues of their organizations, remember that like day follows night, union corruption continues. At the federal level, in fiscal year 2013, the latest year for which complete data is […]

By Robert Romano Judicial Watch has once again shown up congressional investigators on the missing IRS email snafu. This time, according to the organization’s president Tom Fitton , “Department of Justice attorneys for the Internal Revenue Service told Judicial Watch on Friday that Lois Lerner’s emails, indeed all government computer records, are backed up […]

By Rick Manning There are two more weeks until the Congress returns from its traditional August home-work period. While many scoff at the notion of elected officials and some of their staff spending extended time in their district or state, I disagree. If I had my way, […]