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 […]

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 […]