04.26.2016

Cartoon: Leading behind

04.25.2016

Congress should settle Puerto Rico debt restructuring to avert taxpayer bailout of creditors

By Robert Romano Will the House-proposed Puerto Rico legislation, H.R. 4900 , restructure the territory’s $72 billion of debt, or will it lead to a bailout of creditors? Under the bill, the financial oversight board certainly has the authority to restructure Puerto Rico’s debts — in which creditors would […]

04.22.2016

Obama politicizes the Library of Congress

By Dustin Howard President Barack Obama’s nomination of Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, is a metaphor for what is wrong with the Obama Administration. Not because Dr. Hayden is a bad person or bad at her current job, but because to this administration, radical […]

04.21.2016

ICANN do what I want

By Nathan Mehrens We have previously covered the problems with the planned relinquishment to the international community of certain Internet oversight functions. That planned relinquishment is moving forward in the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is under […]

04.20.2016

Columbus, Ohio triple murder suspect would still go free under Senate sentencing reform bill

By Robert Romano Under legislation now being considered by the U.S. Senate applying retroactive sentencing reductions to drug offenders, a Columbus, Ohio triple murder suspect would still have been eligible for early release despite having a violent criminal past. Wendell Callahan is being prosecuted for the January 12 murder of his ex-girlfriend Erveena Hammonds and her 7 and 10 year-old daughters , Breya […]

04.20.2016

Time to defend the American Dream

By Rick Manning An Iranian marathoner raises the American flag above his head as he crosses the finish line putting his life at risk.  Whether this individual act of defiance was over the exclusion of American runners from the event or is just some Photoshop tomfoolery or is something broader is immaterial, this photo captured a […]

04.19.2016

Cartoon: Statue of Tyranny

04.18.2016

Why restructuring Puerto Rico’s $72 billion debt is NOT a bailout

By Robert Romano Puerto Rico is bankrupt. It has no money to meet its obligations, and in early April, Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla signed legislation that would place a moratorium on payments on Puerto Rico’s unsustainable $72 billion debt. And unless that debt is restructured in an […]

04.18.2016

Want to win in November? Save voters from Obamazoning.

By Dustin Howard Whether you are a presidential candidate or someone seeking an office at the local level, there is an issue that resonates with people across the nation, a Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) regulatory overreach destroys local control of zoning laws. […]

04.18.2016

The Bull Elephant: Sen. Mark Warner’s happy tax day

By Steve Albertson As originally published at http://thebullelephant.com/nova-comm-college-names-building-sen-warner-giving-taxpayer-money/ The Northern Virginia Community College dedicates a building named after the Virginia Senator, providing a permanent taxpayer-funded reward…for spending taxpayer funds. On April 15th of all days, Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC) dedicated their Annandale Student Services Center […]

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