11.25.2013
By Rick Manning This past week our nation celebrated the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s delivery of the Gettysburg Address. Once a staple in schools, where kids learned the words by heart and delivered them before the whole class, modern education has apparently deemed the soaring words […]
11.22.2013
By Tom Toth Since its original design, the United States Senate has undergone two integrally related transformations in design and purpose. In 1913, states voted away their federal legislative voice by ratifying the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, changing the appointment of Senators to a direct election. […]
11.22.2013
By Rick Manning A version of this article appeared in The Hill on 11/21/2013 I hope packing the courts with radical nominees is worth it for the Democrats, because they will be in the minority in the Senate in 2015. And if a Republican wins election to the presidency […]
11.22.2013
By Robert Romano Standing Rule XXII of the Senate clearly states that “to amend the Senate rules… the necessary affirmative vote shall be two-thirds of the Senators present and voting,” but none of that matters anymore. Senate Democrats under Harry Reid have changed the rules regarding cloture on most presidential nominees with just a simple majority — an […]
11.22.2013
By Marta H. Mossburg Arne Duncan finds it “fascinating” that opposition to new Common Core education standards throughout the U.S. is coming from “white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn’t as brilliant as they thought they were, and their […]
11.21.2013
By Robert Romano The Kaiser Family Foundation this year has estimated in swing states Ohio and Virginia, there would be anywhere from 1 million to 1.4 million new Medicaid enrollees under Obamacare. That is, if the states actually expand Medicaid. But no such expansion has been approved by either Ohio or Virginia’s respective legislatures. In Ohio, the legislature overwhelmingly rejected […]
11.20.2013
By Robert Romano Jack Welch might have been right all along. An anonymous whistleblower in a New York Post column by John Crudele is alleging that unemployment jobs data in the current population survey conducted by the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics was manipulated in 2012 to help Barack Obama get reelected. According to the source, specifically, the Oct. 5, 2012 jobs report was faked — […]
