By Rick Manning Mark Twain famously responded to the printing of his obituary by saying, “Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” This morning, the Tea Party has emphatically made this point with the primary defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.). Already, the consulting class […]

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By Robert Romano Republican primary voters have cast a decisive verdict against the Washington establishment in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District. In ousting House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), grassroots activists led by the tea party have marked a stunning comeback in the national political scene. The […]

By Tom Toth “We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt … we struggled to, you know, piece together the resources for mortgages, for houses, for Chelsea’s education. You know, it was not easy.”—Hillary Rodham Clinton, 6/9/2014 Hillary Clinton, the former […]

By Rick Manning “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.”— U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 9, […]

By Robert Romano Anyone sending their kids to college nowadays or paying off their student loans has probably noticed that the costs are out of control. In fact, tuition is consistently outstripping the growth of incomes. Since 1976, annual college tuition public and private has increased 1,056 […]

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By Robert Romano In what promises to be a controversial vote at the nation’s Capitol, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) is introducing an amendment to the Transportation and Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) appropriations bill defunding implementation of the “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” rule. Under the regulation, in October HUD will be […]

By Rick Manning Majority Leader Harry Reid lost his majority last week.  It will just take five months to make it official. Obama’s disastrous bungling of the Bergdahl trade, piled on top of a Veteran’s Administration scandal have helped put a fork into his last remaining claims […]

By Robert Romano In October, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is set to finalize a rulemaking to condition eligibility for community development block grants on redrawing zoning maps to achieve racial and income integration. In 2012, HUD dispersed about $3.8 billion of these grants to almost 1,200 municipalities . These range from the rather small — Nashua, N.H. received $583,000 that year. To the rather large — New York City received $210.9 million of the grants. Now, under […]