Not less than a week after a $26.1 billion bailout to bankrupt states like New York and California was stripped from a must-pass war supplemental, it has returned. Senate Democrats had failed to muster the 60 votes needed for passage of a House version of […]

The attacks on the tea party movement and other citizen activists are continuing.  This time, the DNC has unveiled its latest effort to portray tea parties, and Republicans, as radicals and extremists. This effort, www.republicanteapartycontract.com , is nothing more than a series of misrepresentations of popular […]

Speaking this past Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press , Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was of two minds — or shall we say two faces — about the American people’s level of debt and the causes of the financial crisis. First, he said “we’ve been living beyond our means as a country, Americans have […]

What does $39,400 in campaign donations to Charlie Crist’s campaign for Florida’s open Senate seat buy ? How about a $536 million, 72,800 acre land deal by the state of Florida to the U.S. Sugar Corporation, based on an appraisal value of the property taken at the height of the real estate bubble, and where the company would still […]

Apparently acknowledging the failure of his so-called “stimulus” to meaningfully produce jobs, Barack Obama blasted Republicans for not supporting his plan to pass another unemployment extension, this time another $34 billion for those whose benefits have reached the statutory limit of 26 weeks. Previously, Congress […]

This week there were cheers heard throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia.  Governor Bob McDonnell jubilantly proclaimed that the state had achieved a budget surplus.  There’s only one little problem.  It is not true. Simply put, the surplus announcement is nothing more than the final act […]

There’s no escape now. Yesterday, the Senate voted 60 to 39 to take over the nation’s financial system . The bill now proceeds to Barack Obama, who will sign it, and it shall be law. Included is a hidden, permanent bailout that will enable faceless bureaucrats to levy taxes, bail out privileged institutions, and to seize disfavored ones, […]

One item that stands out in last week’s World Economic Outlook produced by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), besides the U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) likely grow far slower than projected by the bama Administration, is the seemingly remarkable pace that emerging and developing economies are growing. In India, for example, it is projected […]

Cynical, abusive Leftist Democrats just cannot stop stealing. They cannot help themselves. Call them the Kleptocrats. In 2006, Democrats took control of Congress in large part because of voter discontent with Republicans’ spending habits and the appearance of corruption. Rhetoric that midterm election year was […]

“Senator Coburn, um…” That was all Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan could muster in response to what should have been a simple question from Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn. He was asking of Kagan, “Do we have the power to tell people what they have to […]