By A.F. Branco

By Robert Romano Inside of a week, Russia has convinced Facebook to ban a page calling for support of Alexei Navalny, a notable critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, inside of Russia. And the North Korean government in a sophisticated, embarrassing hack of Sony Pictures , managed to get the production company to cancel release of The Interview, a comedy […]

By Robert Romano A little more than six years ago, Congress took up legislation that would have bailed out then-troubled automakers GM and Chrysler with $14 billion of taxpayer-funded loans. The bill passed easily in the House , but, as it turned out, ran into a brick wall in the Senate. It […]

By William Warren

By Rick Manning Anonymous and some not so anonymous Republican Senators attempted to bury their fellow Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee for having the audacity to force Senate floor votes on the constitutionality of President Obama’s executive amnesty. Due to outgoing Democrat Senate Majority Leader […]

By Robert Romano “[T]he House will work to keep the government open while keeping our leverage, so that when we have reinforcements in the Senate, we’re in the strongest position to take additional actions to fight the President’s unilateral actions.” That was House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) on December 4 , outlining his conference’s two-part strategy for […]

By A.F. Branco

By Robert Romano “[R]ecent trade deals, like the World Trade Organization trade deal, had no labor or environmental standards.” That was the AFL-CIO, objecting to fast track trade authority for the Obama administration to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership and other trade agreements expected to come up in Congress next year. Labor groups object to free trade agreements because other nations refuse […]

By Robert Romano No sooner had the omnibus bill’s language been dropped, including language defunding the Internet giveaway, than advocates were urging the National Information and Telecommunications Administration (NTIA) to simply ignore the clear prohibition, originally authored by Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wisc.). To the uninitiated, the omnibus bill states in section 540 : “None of the funds […]

By Rick Manning President Barack Obama has been in office for just under six years, and for the first time in his presidency he doesn’t have to worry about appeasing an electorate. Now we get to see his true stripes and they are unlikely to be red […]