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 […]

By Robert Romano As a famous German propagandist once said, if you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth. Elections have consequences, it is true. And in 2008, following the epic market crash and financial crisis, Republicans were demolished in the general election, losing the […]

By Brad Tidwell Recently, Obama has come out strongly against the Republicans in Congress, saying that their reluctance to raise the debt ceiling is unprecedented and dangerous. However, when Obama was last on the congressional side of the Capitol, his position was quite different. This […]

By Tom Toth Young Americans seem to have been saddled with a raw deal. If you’ve recently graduated from college or soon plan to, you may not even remember the political debate surrounding the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. Whether you do or […]

By Robert Romano One surprising aspect of the partial federal government so-called “shutdown” is what a small portion of the budget is actually affected, in turn bringing attention to just how little impact Congress can have on spending through the normal budget process. Some $2.5 trillion of […]

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