03.21.2019

Questions raised by inconsistent treatment of Fox News host Jeanine Pirro and U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar

By Richard McCarty Compare and contrast the swift treatment of Fox News host Jeanine Pirro and U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Last week, Pirro questioned if Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s hijab signifies that she supports Islamic Sharia law and asserted that Sharia law is inconsistent with the U.S. […]

03.20.2019

House set to vote on veto override of bill to stop Trump emergency declaration to build wall on March 26

By Robert Romano The U.S. House of Representatives will vote on March 26 in an attempt to override President Donald Trump’s veto of a resolution that would stop him from building the southern border wall with his national emergency declaration. There is only one problem. The House clearly lacks the votes […]

03.19.2019

Cartoon: Cair-ful

03.15.2019

President Trump to veto Congressional resolution attempting to stop him from building the wall

By Robert Romano “VETO!” That was President Donald Trump’s one-word response on Twitter to the Senate after it passed a resolution to overturn his national emergency declaration on the southern border. The resolution passed 59 to 41 , with 12 Senate Republicans voting in favor. That was enough to pass the Senate, but 59 votes […]

03.14.2019

National debt could top $100 trillion by 2037 if Congress ignores Trump budget

By Robert Romano The national debt, now $22 trillion, grew by almost $1.5 trillion in 2018 as spending in Washington, D.C. continues to outpace the growth of the economy and revenues. Since 1980, the U.S. national debt has grown an average of 8.8 percent every fiscal year, but during that same period, […]

03.14.2019

No cuts allowed in D.C.

By Rick Manning In Washington, D.C., every spending program and tax break has a constituency that fights for it.  This is why they exist, because somewhere, someone believes that Warren Buffett needs a wind production tax credit, and that opera programming should be taxpayer funded. These constituencies […]

03.13.2019

McConnell declares Democrat elections national takeover bill H.R. 1 dead on arrival in Senate

By Robert Romano A House-passed bill that would nationalize U.S. elections has been declared dead on arrival in the U.S. Senate by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). “Democrats’ H.R. 1 (the Democrat Politician Protection Act) proposes a massive federal takeover of elections. But neither the facts […]

03.12.2019

America’s fiscal house of cards

By Rick Manning America is in deep financial trouble, and it is getting increasingly difficult to grow out of it.  This past year, our nation’s economy grew at a faster rate than at any time since 2005 at 2.9 percent, but the outlays (spending) grew much faster […]

03.08.2019

Cartoon: Hung Up

03.08.2019

Younger Americans overwhelmingly more likely to embrace socialism, view America as source of the world’s ills

Cartoon courtesy of Legal Insurrection . By Robert Romano Two eye-opening recent polls tell us a lot about where America is headed in the future, and it should be alarming to most Americans. First up is a recent Public Opinion Strategies poll that found, among younger Americans, 53 percent want the U.S. to become “more […]

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