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 […]

By Rick Manning James Madison is known as the Father of the Constitution.  Wouldn’t it be nice if Madison had been kind enough to leave a series of writings talking about what the document means, how the various branches of government should operate and the powers each […]

By Tom Toth Detached from his teleprompter, Barack Obama is a strangely different character. Speaking this afternoon to the White House press corps, Obama went off script to scorn House Republicans negotiating to end the shutdown. Obama compared Republicans to negligent home borrowers, saying of […]