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 […]

By Robert Romano Now that the more than $1 trillion omnibus legislation has been dropped by the House Rules Committee, with passage expected imminently, all eyes turn toward the Obama’s executive action to grant amnesty to 4.5 million illegal immigrants with U.S.-born children. On December 9, hours before the omnibus bill was introduced, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer predicted the issue would be “resolved […]

By William Warren

By Robert Romano “None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to relinquish the responsibility of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration during fiscal year 2015 with respect to Internet domain name system functions, including responsibility with respect to the authoritative root zone […]

By Rick Manning Machiavellians and other consequentialists throughout history have argued for an anything goes approach for governing, asserting in effect that “the end justifies the means.” Today’s news is full of the natural outgrowth of that justification for attaining power at all costs, and it is […]