By Bill Wilson — Congressional leaders are said to be considering a deal that would delay automatic spending cuts and tax increases at the end of the fiscal year through March , and be tied to a continuing resolution that needs to be passed by the end of the fiscal year on Sep. 30. Throw in a temporary extension of the debt ceiling, and that may be […]

By Bill Wilson — Apparently, the Montana State Supreme Court missed a rather important part of the Federal Constitution, the Supremacy Clause, in a Dec. 2011 ruling that upheld a state law prohibiting corporations from engaging in electioneering. Fortunately, the U.S. Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, stood ready […]

By Bill Wilson — In his latest expansion of his own power, on June 15 Barack Obama issued an executive action essentially and summarily granting legal status to perhaps 800,000 illegal immigrants. Whether one agrees with the DREAM Act — which would have done essentially the same […]

By Bill Wilson — Obama’s citing of executive privilege to conceal documents in the Fast and Furious scandal is an egregious expansion of the doctrine, which is only supposed to extend to the President’s top advisors — not low-level Justice Department officials whose actions got a Border […]

By Bill Wilson — Obama’s radical implementation of the DREAM Act, granting legal status to perhaps one million illegal immigrants, without any vote in Congress is just the latest in a long line of usurpations .  Whether one agrees with the DREAM Act or not, we should all agree that no president is above […]

By Bill Wilson — Once called the American Association of Retired Persons, the AARP is the largest grassroots organization nationwide with over 38 million members. Presumably representing Americans of all political stripes, the organization states that it “helps people 50 and over improve the quality of their […]

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 — This is a tragic defeat. Enough Democrats voted with the Republicans to defeat the EPA’s crippling regulation against the coal industry, but then five GOP senators led by Lamar Alexander provided the margin of victory for the radical environmentalists . If all five had voted with their party, this regulation would have been defeated. Therefore, it is these five […]

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 […]