“This is the Obama administration, this is Washington D.C., putting the needs of government unions over the needs of our children.” That was Louisiana Republican Governor Bobby Jindal at a speech to Americans for Prosperity calling out the White House and Eric Holder-run Justice Department for bringing federal suit against that state’s school choice voucher program . The Justice Department is making the patently absurd argument that allowing students […]

By Rick Manning While Congress was out on recess this August, the 40,000-member International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) quit  the AFL-CIO over the group’s acquiescence to President Obama over the perversely named Affordable Care Act (ACA), firing the first shot in the debate over what to do […]

By A.F. Branco

By Rick Manning We have all heard it said that health care is a right, an entitlement, a fundamental freedom that the government should guarantee. Let’s assume it is.  A right on equal footing with those other precious liberties enumerated in the Bill of Rights to the […]

By Robert Romano This week the House of Representatives remains in recess for a so-called “constituent work week,” one of 18 such weeks scheduled in 2013 when members work out of their district offices, presumably to hear from those they purport to represent. It is just as […]

By Marta H. Mossburg Martin Luther King Jr. was so naïve. He wanted Americans to judge one another on the content of their character, not the color of their skin.  And he believed that the “bad check” that the government had written black people in […]

By Rick Manning September 11 looms large this year. Not only is it the twelfth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon resulting in the murder of 2,996 people, but it has been one impossibly long year since the U.S. consulate was […]

By William Warren

  By Robert Romano “The Congress shall have power … to declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water.” That is Article 1, Section 8 of the Federal Constitution, making perfectly clear that it is Congress that decides […]

By Robert Romano “If he allows Obamacare to be funded, he’ll own it — and so will every House Republican that votes with him. Now is the time for choosing.” That was how Americans for Limited Government President Nathan Mehrens described how political blame will be assigned […]