09.03.2014

Beware the lame duck budget

By Robert Romano Another summer is coming to a close, of course that means Congress has not finished its annual budget yet. The government has been operating under continuing resolutions for much of the past five years, pointing to a broken appropriations process that likely will not […]

09.02.2014

Time to rein in the NLRB

National Labor Relations Board

By Nathan Mehrens As we observe the holiday named for workers, one thing is certain; labor unions and their allies have had an active 2014 so far. A closer look behind the scenes reveals that much of this activity is geared not at making life […]

08.29.2014

Public Employee Union Day

By Rick Manning Labor Day is the traditional last day of summer, often celebrated by final trips to the shore and followed by public pool closings and other signs that the world is battening down the hatches for colder weather. However what most don’t realize is that […]

08.28.2014

Cartoon: Believe in Climate Change

08.28.2014

Workers suffer when militarized police and Big Green get together

By Ron Arnold While all eyes turn to the gunfire and Molotov cocktails of War Zone  Ferguson , Mo., many minds turn to questions of mindless faith in the political establishment. What’s happening to us? One such mind belongs to basketball champion turned actor and best-selling […]

08.27.2014

Gov. Bobby Jindal spearheads fight against Common Core, sues Obama administration

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 […]

08.27.2014

Like day follows night, union corruption continues

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 […]

08.27.2014

Missing IRS emails were backed up, Justice Dept. admits to Judicial Watch

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 […]

08.26.2014

Congress needs to spend more time away from D.C.

How Washington Politicians See the World

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, […]

08.26.2014

Cartoon: Par for the course

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