By Rick Manning A version of this article was originally published on TheHill.com. “I’ll be a President who ensures that America serves our men and women in uniform as well as they’ve served us, and that’s why I’m proud to have the support of these veterans advising me on the issues facing our troops and veterans,” Obama […]

By A.F. Branco Click here for high resolution version. Slideshow — Every scandal Obama found out about on TV

By Tom Toth “I first learned about it from the same news reports that I think most people learned about this.” -President Barack Obama Ah, President Obama. Never slow to shift blame or altogether deny responsibility, the chief executive of the world’s largest and most powerful government […]

By Nathan Mehrens Earlier this month the U.S. Senate Banking Committee passed the so-called “Housing Finance Reform and Taxpayer Protection Act of 2013” by a bipartisan 13-9 vote.  This cheerily christened piece of legislation purports to inject market reforms into the mortgage industry – while […]

By Rick Manning In a major victory for free speech, the Internal Revenue Service buckling under the weight of more than 150,000 citizen comments announced it was going back to square one in its regulatory attempt to redefine political activities by 501(c)(4) organizations. Americans for Limited Government […]

By Brad Tidwell Ironic, coming from the union advocating for a $10.10 minimum wage … Defending this industrial-era practice is stopping a local UFCW union from letting their members earn more money : Why did Local 23 oppose higher pay for its members? Because it upended their seniority system, allowing junior employees to make more those with more seniority. Local 23 wanted […]

By William Warren   Click here for high resolution version. As seen on TV: Obama’s leadership failure

By David Bozeman Congress recently approved — by an overwhelming margin — a commission to study the creation of  a National Women’s History Museum on the National Mall.  Supporters say it’s about time. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann doesn’t think so, stating that numerous museums and galleries […]

By Tom Toth “I first learned about it from the same news reports that I think most people learned about this.” -President Barack Obama Barack Obama’s lack of operational awareness of what’s happening within his own federal bureaucracies has reached legendary proportion. The most recent institutional crisis […]

A version of this article was originally published on TheHill.com. By Rick Manning Beating incumbents is difficult. That is real lesson that can be taken from the Republican Senate primary election in Kentucky pitting Minority Leader Mitch McConnell against businessman Matt Bevins. There is a reason why incumbents who choose to run for reelection overwhelmingly get reelected. […]