04.15.2015

By Rick Manning The continued descent of the Congressional Republicans away from the party’s fiscal responsibility and strong national security principles were on full display this week in two legislative “wins.” Republicans were riding high after Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) led forty-six of his colleagues to sign […]
04.14.2015

By Robert Romano The Senate is taking up the $141 billion Medicare legislation that will eliminate the 1990s era reform, the sustainable growth rate that was once intended to save the program, and Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) has a good question: Will Congress pay for it? Writing for the Deseret News, Lee said , […]
04.13.2015

By Robert Romano Yesterday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced her candidacy for the presidency of the United States. Her husband, Bill Clinton, of course, was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from January 1993 through January 2001. Across the aisle, former Florida Governor […]
04.10.2015

By Don Todd The news has become a melodrama reminiscent of the Dudley Do Right cartoons of the 1960s. The innocent Nell vs. the evil Snidely Whiplash bears a striking resemblance to the “victimized” communities in Indiana vs. Christian bigots. These stories and many others bear another […]
04.09.2015

By Nathan Mehrens With the coming of spring, baseball season, and longer daylight hours, another type of sunshine arrives — light on union finances. At the end of March, the financial reports for unions in the private and federal sectors for the previous calendar year […]
04.08.2015

By Robert Romano The federal government cannot even protect the President’s schedule. That is the only conclusion one can reach after CNN revealed that the Russian government had managed to hack White House computer systems to get copies of the President’s schedule and even call information. “Who puts sensitive security information about the President on a computer plugged into the Internet?” […]
04.03.2015

By Rick Manning White House spokesperson Josh Earnest declared the treaty ratification process dead when he told the White House press corps that those who disagree with Obama on global warming should not have a say on a treaty the President negotiated with China that would be economically disastrous […]
04.02.2015

By Rick Manning Recently, Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) introduced H.R. 1104 , the Fair Treatment for All Donations Act, that will protect donations to 501(c)(4), (c)(5), and (c)(6) groups, regardless of their ideological perspective, from any executive action by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to apply the gift tax. […]