By Rebekah Rast — Hall of Fame ceremonies are reserved for those people who stand out from the masses, whether it is football, country music or rock and roll.  However the latest inductions into a new kind of Hall of Fame are those who hand […]

By Kevin Mooney — Government agencies and international institutions that have worked tenaciously to vilify carbon dioxide (CO2) as a dangerous pollutant have done a great public disservice, Dr. Craig Idso, a scientist and author told audience members at the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) […]

Wes Moore: “Mr. Secretary, good morning. Many people don’t know that actually food stamps fall under the Department of Agriculture. And a report was just released that nearly 1 in 7 Americans now are currently on food stamps. What strategies — what’s being done right […]

By Bill Wilson – Only now, nearly four years into the economic maelstrom of the financial crisis, do we see the real cost: national independence and sovereignty. It isn’t our money the Masters of the Universe want. It’s not land or other hard assets they crave. It’s […]

By Kevin Mooney — State officials who attended the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) annual conference in New Orleans, La. earlier this month expect Medicaid costs to rise dramatically as a result of ObamaCare. As it is, Medicaid currently accounts for about 17 percent of […]

By Bill Wilson – In an unusual move, the Federal Reserve on Aug. 9 announced that it intended to keep the Federal Funds Rate — the rate at which the Fed and banks lend to each other — at near-zero “at least through mid-2013”. The near-zero interest rates were instituted in Dec. 2008 as an emergency and, we thought, temporary measure to counteract […]

By Rick Manning – There is a new phrase that is being bandied about in these hard economic times that should be frightening to anyone who believes that America’s rightful place in the world is on top of the economic pecking order – the “New Normal.” Surprisingly, […]

By Robert Romano – AA is now Barack Obama’s scarlet letter.  He is the first President to preside over a downgrade of our full faith and credit, and it is owed to no less than Obama’s $1 trillion annual expansion of the now $14.5 trillion national debt, […]

For the first time in modern history, the U.S. credit rating is less than AAA. S&P’s has downgraded the U.S. credit rating to AA+. S&P’s specifically called out the debt plan that Congress passed and Obama signed earlier this week. According to S&P’s, the plan […]

Another reason why Monday’s debt-ceiling deal was bad: A government official tells ABC News that the federal government is expecting and preparing for bond rating agency Standard & Poor’s to downgrade the rating of US debt from its current AAA value. […]