By Paul Driessen – President Obama frequently says Americans “need to end our $4 billion in annual taxpayer subsidies to oil companies.” The latest Democrat bill would have repealed some $2 billion of what Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) and others call “subsidies” and “special tax […]

By Bill Wilson – When the Republican establishment is spending much of its time deflecting criticism and denying that the current field of candidates running for president is weak, rest assured, it is weak. A recent AP poll of Republicans found that 45 percent were dissatisfied with […]

The June 2011 issue of the Washingtonian magazine features a story that makes little sense given events that have unfolded over the past couple of weeks. The odd story is titled “The Invisible Man”, and tells the story of the former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Khan with heavy […]

By Rick Manning – It’s official. There is a housing crisis in America. The New York Times has weighed in with their prescription for the housing woes plaguing our nation’s economy. Not surprisingly, their solution is more government intervention, billions more on government loan modification programs that are proven failures 40 […]

The U.S. Senate unanimously blocked Obama’s 2012 federal budget by a vote of 97-0. Earlier in the evening, the Senate rejected Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget plan as well.

Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) wrote to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius yesterday expressing their deep concerns regarding the lack of transparency shown by the Obama administration in the ObamaCare waiver process. So far, 1,372 ObamaCare waivers have been […]

No surprise here, but taxpayers are definitely losing money on the bailout that was engineered by Obama and Bush for General Motors. As Shikha Dalmia wrote at Reason (bold text done for emphasis): …Bloomberg’s survey of 21 auto analysts put the average projected price for GM […]

The latest video from Rep. Paul Ryan explains his plan to save Medicare:

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Wednesday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : On political proximity Battle of the budgets Obama skirts rule of law to reward pals, punish foes General Motors will never repay taxpayers… Obama’s unspoken re-election edge… The Republican freak show? Cartoon of the day, “Obama and Reid can’t see the debt ceiling” Creating new priorities in education spending Rep. Paul Ryan: Saving Medicare, visualized Republicans form circular firing squad over Ryan plan… Will Illinois be America’s Greece? Hayek vs. Keynes: The century long battle of ideas Will Rep. Thaddeus McCotter jump in 2012 prez race? Porkulus: Cash for tax cheats

By Frank McCaffrey – Diogenes, the Greek mythology figure, once used a lantern to find an honest person. Well, he would have found one in Illinois Treasury Secretary Dan Rutherford. ALG’s Robert Romano explains what this is all about: