By Bill Wilson – A misleading story from the New York Times published Mar. 1, “ Majority in Poll Back Employees in Public Sector Unions ” once again shows the lengths the mainstream media will go to come to the rescue of the public sector unions, this time in Wisconsin. “Americans oppose weakening the bargaining rights […]

By Bill Wilson – On Feb. 25, the people of Ireland headed to the polls to elect a new government for the first time since the nation accepted an €67.5 billion bailout from the European Union (EU) and International Monetary Fund (IMF). The result is widely expected […]

By Bill Wilson – National Review’s Deroy Murdock is reporting that Senator Tom Coburn has discovered over $703 billion in unobligated federal funds in the Obama budget that ‘have not yet been committed by contract or other legally binding action by the government,’ according to the Office of Management and Budget . This includes $16.4 billion for the Department of Labor, $25.2 billion for Housing and Urban Development, and $309.1 billion of unspent TARP […]

By Bill Wilson – On Feb. 14, Barack Obama submitted his ten-year budget from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). With a straight face, he said of the proposal , “[W]e’re going to have to get serious about cutting back on those things that would be nice to have but we can do without.” Obama explained, “That’s what families across the country do every […]

By Bill Wilson – When House Republicans released their campaign promises for the 2010 election, they wrote they would “roll back government spending to pre-stimulus, pre-bailout levels, saving us at least $100 billion in the first year alone and putting us on a path to balance the […]

By Bill Wilson – When the 2012 Fiscal Year begins for most states on July 1st, they will face approximately $125 billion in budget shortfalls, according to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities . The Center accounts for the shortfalls because of the sharp decline in tax collections, 12 percent less than pre-recession levels. This […]

By Bill Wilson – We have to get our priorities straight. When even Cuba, which minus Chinese assistance lacks the technological capability to do so, is looking to drill for oil in the deep waters just 50 miles off the coast of the U.S., but we refuse […]

By Bill Wilson – On January 31st, when Judge Roger Vinson declared the individual mandate of ObamaCare to be unconstitutional, he also determined that the legislation could not be severed from the rest of the legislation, nullifying the entire law. This means that, unless and until a […]

By Bill Wilson – On January 26th, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) announced that the budget deficit would top $1.5 trillion in 2011 , the highest ever on record. That is mostly because of the unpaid-for $56 billion extension of unemployment benefits and a $120 billion cut in payroll taxes on employees from December’s tax deal. Because there were no offsetting spending cuts […]

By Bill Wilson – It’s the same old story: The U.S. has abundant natural resources, but refuses to extract and produce them, as usual, because of environmental restrictions and regulatory costs. In the meantime, we are exporting our energy security, job security, and now, national security to […]