By Rick Manning A new poll by Democratic pollster Patrick Caddell shows that Republican Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) is no favorite of Republican voters. After four years of watching and rooting for Boehner to succeed in fighting to limit the size and scope of government, fully 60 percent of Republicans […]

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By Rick Manning Speaker John Boehner passed the last government funding bill by appealing to Democrat votes in the House to offset the more than 25 percent of his Republican Conference which refused to support him.  After the benefit of time to review some of the specifics […]

By Robert Romano National Review’s Kevin Williamson had an interesting analysis of the Obama administration’s continued stonewalling of Congressional subpoenas and other federal investigations, pointing to a letter from 47 inspectors general to Congress complaining of agency obstruction of lawful internal investigations. “Section 6(a)(1) of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (IG) Act reflects the clear intent of Congress that an Inspector General is entitled to timely and unimpeded […]

By Rick Manning “Because, thanks to their efforts, we really do have a new foundation that’s been laid.  We are better positioned than we have been in a very long time.  A new future is ready to be written.  We’ve set the stage for this American moment.  […]

By Rick Manning Christmas is upon us. The parties are done.  The office schedules are winding down.  Rush hour traffic is a hint of its normal self.  Salvation Army bell ringers stand over their buckets jammed with cash.  Rudolph, It’s a Wonderful Life, and Miracle on 34th […]

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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