07.01.2014

Cartoon: “Imperial Slap Down”

07.01.2014

Supreme Court ends union ripoff of disability caregivers

A full version of this article is published on The Hill, linked below. By Rick Manning The greed and avarice of public employee union leadership and their Democratic Party beneficiaries was struck down in a 5-4 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Harris v. Quinn. Somewhat incredibly, […]

06.30.2014

Can Congress delegate its powers to independent entities like Amtrak?

By Nathan Mehrens On Monday, June 22, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the Obama Administration’s petition to review a case involving a Congressional delegation of regulatory authority. The case is Department of Transportation v. Association of American Railroads, and involves delegations of Congressional authority to Amtrak. […]

06.30.2014

House subpoenas on IRS emails expand to White House, Treasury, Justice, and FEC

By Robert Romano On June 27, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Charles Boustany (R-La.) expanded its search for the missing Internal Revenue Service (IRS) emails relevant to the targeting of the tea party and other 501(c)(4) organizations. […]

06.27.2014

Mississippi Burning

By Rick Manning Politics is about the acquisition, expansion or maintenance of power, and the lengths that people go to achieve that power is what we actually learn from the process. In the Mississippi Republican primary and run-off elections, we saw this pursuit in its most raw […]

06.27.2014

Supreme Court delivers blow to Obama on NLRB appointments, now Congress must act

By Rep. Austin Scott, Nathan Mehrens Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in National Labor Relations Board vs. Noel Canning put the brakes on one of President Obama’s most egregious examples of overreach. The Court decided that the president’s January 2012 installation of three members […]

06.27.2014

Boehner to take Obama to federal court on executive overreach?

By Robert Romano “I intend to bring to the floor in July legislation that would authorize the House of Representatives — through the House General Counsel and at the direction of the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG) — to file suit in the coming weeks in an […]

06.26.2014

Democrats deliver Cochran Senate primary victory in Mississippi

By Robert Romano It is often said that politics makes for strange bedfellows. But it can also make for messy divorces. Case in point, the closely contested Mississippi Senate Republican primary, where 36-year incumbent Thad Cochran narrowly defeated conservative challenger Chris McDaniel. Doing some quick back of […]

06.26.2014

Cartoon: “Incompetent or Corrupt”

By William Warren

06.25.2014

Join the Movement: Repeal the Income Tax, IRS

Had enough? Time to end IRS abuse once and for all – tell Congress to repeal the Income Tax Constitutional Amendment.  

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