By Bill Wilson — A Feb. 14 Wall Street Journal editorial calls on New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to veto legislation that would require projects in state costing $5 million or more to utilize project labor agreements (PLAs), pointing to two studies that ought to give the Governor pause. This is an important issue, […]

By Bill Wilson — “I propose working with states to make high-quality preschool available to every single child in America.” That was Barack Obama’s State of the Union plan to dramatically expand the current $8 billion a year Head Start program administered by the Department of Health […]

By Bill Wilson — Obama could not have been clearer. Or more disingenuous. “[If Congress won’t act soon to protect future generations, I will,” he said in his Feb. 12 State of the Union Address. “I will direct my cabinet to come up with executive actions we […]

By Bill Wilson — Reporting annually on the “State of the Union” is one of the few founding principles U.S. President Barack Obama has bothered to honor over his first four years in office. Article II, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution states that the President “shall […]

By Bill Wilson — NBC News sent shockwaves throughout the nation’s capital when it released a Department of Justice memo providing the legal basis for the federal government to invoke its war powers against U.S. citizens, targeting them for assassination. The memo deliberately limited its focus to “the circumstances in which the […]

By Bill Wilson — A little discussed impact of sequestration, due to take effect on March 1, is the fact that after 2014, spending will increase every single year in both defense and non-defense categories, reports the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). In addition, there are real spending cuts, but they come nowhere […]

By Bill Wilson — It is convenient that just two days after the New York Times publishes an editorial calling for sequestration to be eliminated , the Obama Administration is dutifully responding with calls for it to again be delayed. The fact is, sequestration has already been delayed in the fiscal cliff deal, costing taxpayers $24 billion. No more delays. […]

By Bill Wilson — David Kemper, Chairman and CEO of Commerce Bancshares, had to be kidding. He couldn’t have possibly been serious, when in a BloombergBusinessweek opinion piece, “QE Cubed: A Modest Proposal for More Fed Buying. A Lot More,” he suggested that the Federal Reserve expand its balance sheet by $30 trillion. The proposal, if real, would entail […]

By Bill Wilson — To hear the White House tell it , the economy shrank in the fourth quarter by 0.1 percent solely because government spending was cut by $40.4 billion, largely in defense. To be fair, there is a degree of truth to that. If you factor out government spending as a component […]

By Bill Wilson — The next major budget battle in Washington, D.C. is the $85 billion of sequestration cuts to budgeting authority due to take effect on March 1. Originally agreed to in August 2011 in exchange for increasing the debt ceiling by $2.1 trillion, sequestration was supposed to have accounted for $109 billion of average, annual cuts . But […]