By Bill Wilson — The Obama Commerce Department is a case study of why it is so important to fight bad nominees at the secondary level. Had Obama gotten his way, the Acting Secretary would now be Terry Garcia — someone so radical Green he makes Van […]
By Bill Wilson –The Supreme Court deserves praise for their 7-2 decision today in the Knox v. SEIU case , which determined that a state cannot require its employees to pay a special union fee that will be spent for political purposes without first giving the employees information about the fee and a chance to object […]
By Bill Wilson — In what passes for conservative commentary these days, National Review senior editor Ramesh Ponnuru and former Bush Treasury economist David Beckworth issued a new monetary manifesto on May 24 called “Monetary Regime Change” . In it, they claim that in the U.S. and in Europe, central […]
By Bill Wilson — If House Republicans believed in anything, they would vote to make the current tax rates permanent, send that to the Senate, and make that the only option to prevent the nation from driving off the fiscal cliff at year’s end. And if Harry […]
By Bill Wilson — Eric Holder, who has been under increasing scrutiny for his purported cover-up of the Fast and Furious, the Black Panthers Philly 2008 case, and fighting Florida’s voter ID laws, has no business leading the investigation into the White House national security leaks. He […]
By Bill Wilson — All hopes that the European sovereign debt crisis might be contained to the periphery were dashed on June 10 as European leaders agreed to a €100 billion bailout loan to Spain to recapitalize its banks. The proposal would allow the banks, which have […]
By Bill Wilson — With Europe on the precipice, China visibly contracting, and things slowing here in the U.S. too, the headwinds in the current global economy are something fierce. It is likely Greece will soon exit the Euro, and take with it perhaps the entire 17-member […]
By Bill Wilson — The private sector is not doing just fine. It is growing, just barely, in spite of Obama and his policies. Obama lauds the 4 million private sector jobs created in the establishment survey, but that is just happy talk. That is not recovering […]
By Bill Wilson — With Scott Walker’s crushing victory over Tom Barrett to retain his seat as Governor of Wisconsin, the nation may be reaching a critical turning point over the fundamental relationship between taxpayers and public employees. Between the government, and the governed. Predicated on the […]
