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 […]

By Robert Romano – The big-spending politicians in Washington cannot say they were not warned. As the financial system was brought to its knees in 2008, a torrent of government spending, borrowing, and money-printing was unleashed by Congress, the Treasury, and the Federal Reserve. First, Fannie Mae […]

Here are the names, via Rob Bluey at Big Government , of the 47 Congressmen that have supported every single spending cut during the Continuing Resolution debate last week in Congress: Amash, Bachmann, Broun, Campbell, Chabot, Chaffetz, Coffman, Duncan (TN), Duncan (SC), Flake, Fleming, Franks, Garrett, Gowdy, Graves (GA), Heller, […]

By Bill Wilson – On Feb. 25, the people of Ireland headed to the polls to elect a new government for the first time since the nation accepted an €67.5 billion bailout from the European Union (EU) and International Monetary Fund (IMF). The result is widely expected […]

By Howard Rich – President Obama has said that the cuts included in his fiscal 2012 budget will force “tough choices and sacrifices.” Meanwhile, House Speaker John Boehner invoked a former tax-hiking president in defending his chamber’s proposed budget reductions. “When we say we are […]

Below is a special letter from RSC Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan on our nation’s debt: To My Fellow Americans, Uncle Sam is spending you into the poorhouse. Taxes, inflation, unemployment, interest rates – all could skyrocket if Washington keeps spending trillions of dollars it doesn’t have. Unless we begin […]

By Kevin Mooney — Although the showdown between Gov. Scott Walker and public employees in Wisconsin has understandably seized media attention, business interests should not lose sight of administrative activity in Washington D.C. Labor bosses who lost out on major legislative favors over the past […]