By William Warren – Today’s cartoon is about how the GOP and Dems in Congress need to do something about the deficit or else we’ll all get crushed…

By William Warren – This cartoon is about the Wisconsin Labor issue and how the Democrats keep using the old line about how the GOP’s policies are “Crushing the Children.”  Well, we all know who is REALLY crushing the children…

By Howard Rich – The Social Security debate is no different than the debate over any other government program – there are just a lot more zeroes involved. Of course the more zeroes, the less willing Washington politicians usually are to confront the problem – […]

By Kevin Mooney — Just before he left office in January, Alabama Gov. Bob Riley, a Republican, signed off on legislation that outlawed automatic payroll deductions for union dues. Although the on-going protests in Madison, Wisconsin and Trenton, N.J. have largely overshadowed Riley’s actions, he […]

The biggest monthly deficit of all time was reported this month: The federal government posted its largest monthly deficit in history in February at $223 billion, according to preliminary numbers the Congressional Budget Office released Monday morning. That figure tops last February’s record of $220.9 billion, and marks the 29th straight […]

By Robert Romano – Are we under economic attack? The author of a controversial 2009 Pentagon-contracted report, Kevin D. Freeman, seems to think so. Penned for the Department’s Irregular Warfare Support Program (IWSP), “ Economic Warfare: Risks and Responses ” outlines a “potential direct economic attack on the U.S. Treasury and U.S. […]

By Rebekah Rast – A “Plan B” is put in place as a backup, a form of insurance in case “Plan A” doesn’t work out. A Plan B is valuable when taking a cross-country road trip and you happen to hit road construction and can’t […]

By Bill Wilson – The Department of Labor’s unemployment report is dramatically at odds with Gallup and other non-partisan employment rate predicting surveys.  If the Labor Department is to be believed, the job market is improving rapidly with almost a million jobs created in the private sector with […]

There is nothing wrong with purchasing items made locally, as I have noted before . But there is something wrong with preaching to the rest of us the “Buy Local” mantra from the rear window of your foreign SUV: My fiance spotted the above “Buy Local Mobile” over the weekend […]

By Adam Bitely – Unless Congress approves legislation before March 5, many federal government operations will “shut down” or so we are led to believe. While the House has already approved a Continuing Resolution that includes $61.3 billion in spending cuts for the remainder of […]