By Robert Romano In 2012, the Romney campaign and the Republican National Committee were fond of noting that “Since President Obama took office, the number of Americans receiving food stamps has increased from 31.9 million to 46.7 million, a record 46 percent increase.” In a Sept. 2012 Fox News interview, Republican nominee Mitt Romney repeated , “When the president took office, 32 million people were on food stamps. […]

By Robert Romano International Monetary Fund (IMF) Director Christine Lagarde has called on Congress to “repeal the sequester” because she says “the effect of the sequester and deficit reduction more generally are already affecting the economy.” Lagarde claimed that the budget cuts would “shave 1.25 to 1.75 percentage points of growth.” She left out the most important part, however. The reason is […]

By Robert Romano Let’s give the government the benefit of the doubt. For a moment, let’s assume what they say is true. That, only foreign communications are being collected and stored in full by the National Security Agency (NSA), and that, the only part of purely domestic […]

By Robert Romano “If we didn’t collect that ahead of time, we couldn’t make these connections, so what we create is a set of data and we put it out here and then only under specific times can we query that data.” That was National Security Agency […]

By Robert Romano So how deep does the National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance program exposed by Edward Snowden really go? Are they downloading every email and phone call out there? Just communications to and from foreign targets? The American people are rightly wondering just how far this […]

By Robert Romano Let us take Edward Snowden at his word. For a moment, assume he disclosed publicly the National Security Agency’s (NSA) broad, sweeping surveillance of all telephone, Internet, and email communications everywhere — not to hurt people or undermine security but to stop an unconstitutionally […]

By Robert Romano Did Obama admit that the National Security Agency (NSA) is recording everything? Here was the President’s charitable explanation at a June 7 press conference of recent disclosures that the agency is collecting phone records and Internet communications on millions of Americans and non-Americans alike. “What the intelligence community is doing is looking at phone numbers and […]

By Robert Romano Such much for cutting federal spending. House Chairman of the Budget Committee Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) joined with 35 House Republicans along with every Democrat who voted in defeating an amendment to an appropriations bill that would have repealed the 82-year old Davis-Bacon prevailing wages mandate for federal contractors. The result? Less bang for the […]

By Robert Romano A special counsel needs to be appointed by Attorney General Eric Holder in the growing Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scandal, Americans for Limited Government (ALG) President Nathan Mehrens says. Federal law provides that a special prosecutor may be appointed by the Attorney General in certain scandals under “extraordinary circumstances.” “This is an extraordinary case of political viewpoint discrimination […]

By Robert Romano On May 18, activist Mark Passio and his wife, Barb Marinelli, were arrested and handcuffed for distributing “End the Fed” literature near Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Penn. by federal park rangers. The shocking incident was caught on video . According to Passio’s description of events, “I was walking with my wife Barb in Philadelphia from Market Street […]