By Robert Romano Is this the beginning of the end of the filibuster? If Senate Republicans object to a series of upcoming nominations this month, “Democrats plan to threaten to use the impasse to change the Senate rules,” eliminating the filibuster, reports the New York Times . The pending nominations include the […]

By Brad Tidwell If there’s any overarching theme to be found from the Obama Administration’s last few years in office, it’s the “we can’t wait” theme. The Obama administration has never been long on patience, oversight or precedent when it comes in opposition to their […]

By Willie Deutsch On the first of the year, Speaker Boehner announced that “ 2013 Must be About Cutting Spending and Reforming the Tax Code .”  At the end of that statement he made it clear that, “Without meaningful reform of entitlements, real spending controls, and a fairer, cleaner tax code, our debt will continue to […]

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By Nathan Mehrens On July 2, Assistant Treasury Secretary for Tax Policy Mark Mazur announced in a blog post that the employer mandate ( 26 U.S.C.4980H ) starting in 2014 to provide minimum coverage under the new health care will not be enforced. There is only one problem. There is […]

By Nathan Mehrens The sky was supposed to fall. In February, CBS was just one of many outlets publishing economic warnings about the impact of cutting the federal government creating a fear campaign about the impact of the automatic sequester cuts. CBS quoted, among others, the […]

By Willie Deutsch As we look at the coming two weeks, there are a number of confirmation votes that are expected.  Gina McCarthy’s appointment to head the Environmental Protection Agency and Thomas Perez’s appointment to head the Department of Labor are the two high profile […]

By Rick Manning You can either laugh or you can cry. But in case you have any doubts, this past week provided proof that the world has indeed gone mad. The Supreme Court found that racial inequities stemming from Jim Crow laws have been rectified based upon […]

By Robert Romano $54 trillion. That would be the size of the economy today if regulation had remained at its 1949 level, a Jan. 2013 study on excessive federal regulations has found . The study is by Appalachian State University economics professor John Dawson and North Carolina State University economics professor John Seater and was recently highlighted by the American Enterprise Institute’s Mark J. Perry . Overall, […]

By Robert Romano 237 years ago, on July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the 13 colonies to affirm that governments are constituted to secure natural, individual rights and that they “deriv[e] their just powers from the consent of the governed.” And, that “whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of […]