By Brad Tidwell Wednesday evening, I had the distinct pleasure of watching the premiere of the new Weinstein Company-Walden Media collaboration movie, The Giver, at the conservative Heritage Foundation. This collaboration is particularly notable as the former was the production company for Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story” , […]

By Rick Manning The August Congressional recess leads to the inevitable forward looking political chatter as various contenders seek to catch the eye of donors and those of primary state voters with a view toward the start of the first presidential primary in just a short 17 […]

By William Warren

By Robert Romano Even while hundreds of coal-fired electric power plants are being retired or converted to natural gas on account of new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations — 361 units so far according to Americaspower.org over the coming years — an odd thing happened this winter. Coal electricity production increased dramatically, by 8.5 percent, to 543.4 billion […]

By Rick Manning Who would have guessed? Investor’s Business Daily reports that only 70 percent of those who signed up for Obamacare through health insurer Aetna are actually paying premiums and remain in the system. Not exactly a shock that the government health care system that many people believed was […]

By Tom Toth Barack Obama has, at long last, discovered why his administration has been an unmitigated public policy failure. Just this week, Obama expounded upon the presently inefficient state of Washington politics in a post-election campaign speech to supporters, musing “Our politics are dysfunctional… societies don’t […]

By Marita Noon In June, in a sparsely populated county in northern New Mexico, a primary election surprisingly unseated an incumbent County Commissioner. No one seemed to notice. But, apparently, high-ranking Democrats to the north were paying attention. The northern New Mexico county is Mora. The high-ranking […]

By Robert Romano “In order for us to maintain troops in Iraq, we needed the invitation of the Iraqi government and we needed assurances that our personnel would be immune from prosecution if, for example, they were protecting themselves and ended up getting in a firefight with […]

By A.F. Branco

By Rick Manning Twenty different Obama administration officials have lost or destroyed a portion of their email traffic. Email traffic that was, in some cases, under subpoena or in others requested as part of a larger inquiry into the conduct of the executive branch. House Committee on […]