By Robert Romano — It is telling that on the same day the Wall Street Journal published a lead editorial in favor of legislation that would censor the Internet in the name of protecting copyright that the bill lost no less than 14 previous backers, who dropped their support of the legislation. Eight were in the Senate alone, […]

By Robert Romano — Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Lamar Smith has put the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) on hold, stripping out controversial DNS blocking provisions from the legislation until further study can take place in a move that Americans for Limited Government President […]

By Robert Romano — As the European Central Bank (ECB) continues with secondary market bond purchases of sovereign debt to keep down rates, taking its total ante up to €213 billion , it appears to be having very little effect on the rates of the bonds themselves. Consider the following rates on Portugal, Ireland, Italy, […]

By Robert Romano — While Barack Obama’s “recess” appointment on Jan. 4 of Richard Cordray to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau when Congress was not even in recess has garnered most of the media’s attention, there were three other picks for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) […]

By Robert Romano — Decades-old federal regulations and state-by-state “blue sky laws” restricting small businesses from raising capital on the Internet may soon be coming to an end — and it could be just what the ailing economy needs to get moving again to create jobs. The […]

By Robert Romano Polling in early election battleground states Iowa and New Hampshire finds likely Republican voters deeply opposed to bailing out European banks that bet poorly on the sovereign debt of socialist governments like Greece. As reported by the National Review’s John Fund , overall, 76 percent of Republicans in Iowa , 68 percent in New Hampshire , and 77 percent in South Carolina oppose any U.S. involvement of bailing […]

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By Rick Manning The payroll tax debate has been and will continue to be at the forefront of the political back and forth in Washington, D.C., with Republicans continuing to agree with President Obama that a full year extension is the best alternatives, and President Obama and […]

By Robert Romano With all that could go wrong in 2012, one troubled hotspot to keep an eye on is Iran, a country the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says is on pace to develop a nuclear weapon in the near future. If that happens, it is […]