By Rick Manning The infamous Cornhusker Kickback which helped get Obamacare enacted into law and effectively ended Ben Nelson’s Senate career has now been joined by the Kentucky Kickback in the checkered legislative history of the health care law. Tucked into the “deal” to end the government […]

By Tom Toth Well, it’s finished. After “fighting the good fight” Congressional Republicans blinked in the waning hours before reaching the debt ceiling and agreed to reopen the government, allowing Obamacare to be implemented unchanged. Despite demands from Democrats for a clean Continuing Resolution, the […]

By Robert Romano With House and Senate leaders merely disagreeing around the edges of a continuing resolution funding the government for fiscal year 2014 and increasing the $16.699 trillion debt ceiling, it appears all but certain that Obamacare will be fully funded this year, next year, and […]

By Rick Manning Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. This familiar chant from little kids in response to being verbally abused or mischaracterized is typically taught by parents hoping to encourage children to ignore the hurtful taunts of others. But […]

By Tom Toth Last week, the Obama administration decided to barricade open-air national memorials from everyone–including veterans. This spurred a non-political march of veterans on Washington D.C. to demand the veterans’ memorials be opened. Last weekend, servicemen and women like the man pictured to the […]

By Rick Manning The K Street vultures are out in force. With both the continuing resolution and debt ceiling extension legislation pending, the tassel loafer lobbying crowd has descended on Capitol Hill with Obamacare fixes and other wish lists to be crammed into any final resolution. Big […]

By Marta H. Mossburg For the Obama administration, the shutdown is just one more political crisis it won’t let go to waste. Take the park rangers who last week locked under armed guard a group of senior citizens that included visitors from Japan, Australia, Canada […]

By Tom Toth Brawner Farm at the Manassas National Battlefield Park puts a high premium on its bathrooms. Under the supervision of the National Park Service, the government has spent over $578,000 to erect a “comfort station.” You read that correctly–$578,000–for a bathroom in a […]

By now, it’s old news: The Obamacare exchange websites are still failing. Reporting on this, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer finally conceded that “they had three years to get this ready — if they weren’t fully ready, they should accept the advice that a lot of Republicans are giving them, delay […]

By Rick Manning A version of this article originally appeared at TheHill.com. The circular logic of President Obama’s press conference performance on the debt ceiling would be funny if it wasn’t so tragic. Obama proclaimed he would not negotiate with Congress on raising the debt ceiling, while at the same time explaining that, “There comes a […]