By Rick Manning As published at http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/economy-budget/266239-combined-economic-riders-and-defunding-bill-should-unite House Republicans left dozens of important policy riders and measures that defund various parts of the Obama agenda on the table during the failed omnibus negotiation, but that doesn’t mean that their work should go for naught. Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) […]

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By Don Todd Why does the left have such an affinity and affection for criminals? Because deep down they know they are criminals themselves. Lincoln defined slavery as, “you work, I eat.” That is the mantra of the left. Living off the labor of others is called […]

By Rick Manning The brutal Columbus, Ohio murder of Erveena Hammonds and her 7 and 10 year-old daughters , whose throats were slit by an early-released felon, is exhibit A of why Congress should reject legislation designed to let thousands more convicted drug criminals out of federal prison prematurely. If Congress had not enacted the so-called 2010 Fair Sentencing Act , Wendell Callahan would still be […]

By Robert Romano Does South Carolina Republican Governor Nikki Haley have the same speechwriter as President Barack Obama? One might have gotten that outlandish impression after listening to the President’s State of the Union Address and then the very unusual so-called Republican response by Haley . Both speeches shared similar themes and both appeared to target current GOP presidential frontrunner, Donald Trump, […]

By Robert Romano Before Donald Trump was bringing illegal immigration and bad trade deals to forefront of the Republican presidential debate, there was Pat Buchanan. Once a special assistant to President Richard Nixon and also the White House Communications Director under President Ronald Reagan and a regular […]

By Nathan Mehrens Is the practice of forcing public sector employees to pay agency fees to unions on the way out? Based on my observation of the oral arguments in the Supreme Court on Monday in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, I think the answer […]

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By Rick Manning If you are inside a burning building, you go into overdrive rescuing what you can and getting out.  If the fire is coming down the hallway and you are in an uber-emergency situation, you scramble to the nearest staircase without regards to anything but […]

By Robert Romano As if anything else couldn’t go wrong. North Korea proclaims it has the hydrogen bomb. China’s stock market falls back into the abyss, taking the U.S. with it, prompting Beijing to devalue the yuan to forestall the deflation of asset prices and even engage in wholesale purchases of stocks . The rationale for devaluation is because China cannot create more foreign […]