In the continued fights to keep Common Core standards from being implemented in Louisiana, Governor Bobby Jindal filed suit against the Obama administration’s aggressive push to force the federally-controlled education program on the state. Jindal argues in the lawsuit that the government has violated the state’s Tenth […]

By Nathan Mehrens This Labor Day weekend as you see labor union leaders extolling the supposed virtues of their organizations, remember that like day follows night, union corruption continues. At the federal level, in fiscal year 2013, the latest year for which complete data is […]

By Robert Romano Judicial Watch has once again shown up congressional investigators on the missing IRS email snafu. This time, according to the organization’s president Tom Fitton , “Department of Justice attorneys for the Internal Revenue Service told Judicial Watch on Friday that Lois Lerner’s emails, indeed all government computer records, are backed up […]

By Rick Manning There are two more weeks until the Congress returns from its traditional August home-work period. While many scoff at the notion of elected officials and some of their staff spending extended time in their district or state, I disagree. If I had my way, […]

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By Robert Romano Don’t think the government is ubiquitous? Consider the following data published by the U.S. Census Bureau . In 2012, 109.6 million Americans were on some form of means-tested welfare, including Medicaid, food stamps and public housing. Another 43.7 million were on Social Security, Medicare, unemployment, and other government programs. Add to […]

By Rick Manning President Obama has officially become the laughingstock of the world, happily ensconced in the wonderland of Martha’s Vineyard on one of his many vacations, while a junior varsity terrorist group runs amok lopping off heads of everyone in their path, the borders remain a […]

By Robert Romano “It was a suicide mission.” That was House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), commenting in a new book on the ill-fated 2013 effort to defund Obamacare by the House of Representatives that led to a partial government shutdown for a couple of weeks. But was it really a suicide mission? Or was it simply the […]

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By Rick Manning Seemingly contradictory economic headlines jumped out over the past couple of weeks. In one, federal revenues are reaching all-time highs with the Department of the Treasury projecting another 5 percent gain in revenues after posting a whopping 13 percent increase in 2013 due at least in part to […]