By Kevin Mooney — For too many Americans, voting has become a matter of mere convenience, rather than a serious civic responsibility, John Fund, a National Review columnist, has told television correspondents in recent interviews. While there are legitimate reasons to vote by way of absentee […]

By Robert Romano — Since Jan. 2009, the labor force participation rate of college graduates has dropped significantly — from 77.6 percent to 75.5 percent today. That may not seem like much, but it represents more than 1.34 million graduates who should have entered the labor force […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Friday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : Fewer Americans employed now than when Obama took office — NetRight Daily Record 88,921,000 not in labor force… — CNS News Labor force participation rate lowest in 31 years — Reason The campaign of wrong ideas vs. no ideas — Jonah Goldberg Let the wind production tax credit expire — NetRight Daily Woodward’s devastating account of Obama — Washington Examiner Dem debt solutions: Tax the rich and spend more money — Reason DNC delegates: Let’s ban corporate profits — Human Events Clinton spins fairy tale on Obama’s welfare changes — Washington Examiner […]

By Bill Wilson — What a difference seven years can make. In 2005, when then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger attempted to restore order to California’s broken fiscal house via the referendum process, taking on the public sector unions, the Democrat political machine went into overdrive to turn back the […]

64 organizations and the millions of people that they represent are calling on members of Congress to allow the Wind Production Tax Credit to expire. The tax credit, implemented in 1992 to spur development of wind energy, has failed to yield the desired result of […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Thursday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : Obama: the real radical — George F. Will Will voters fire Obama? — NetRight Daily Solyndra in the house at the Democratic National Convention… — Reason Strife over platform at DNC — RealClearPolitics Cartoon: Democratic party platform — Warren Toons Denialist Democrats — Reason Better off? Let’s count the ways we’re not — Investor’s Business Daily Fixing Medicare requires seniors to pay quite a bit more — Cato Is Romney’s 12 million jobs pledge realistic? — RealClearMarkets Can this marriage be saved: libertarians and the GOP — […]

By Kevin Mooney — New Jersey Republican delegates to the National Convention in Tampa, Fla. credited Gov. Chris Christie for vetoing a bill to create a health care exchange system earlier this year that could prove costly over time. Under the Patient Protection and Affordable […]

By Rick Manning — America is now officially 16 trillion dollars in debt. No other country in the history of the world has ever been even close to 16 trillion dollars in debt, and $5.3 trillion of that debt has been rolled up since Obama took office a little more […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Wednesday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : The two parties of Big Government — NetRight Daily Change: Obama downsizes speech venue by 50,000+ seats… — Daily Mail Cartoon: DNC convention topics — Branco Toons Federal debt now greater than $16,000,000,000,000… — NetRight Daily Food-stamp use climbs to record high: 46.7 million in June — Bloomberg Poll: 40% say Obama deserves second term — The Hill New experience for Obama: Facing a tough political opponent — Byron York ObamaCare bans new physician-owned hospitals — NetRight Daily The hubris of central planners — Jonah […]

By David Bozeman The travails of black conservatives are not new to most observers.  While Condoleezza Rice garnered raves, even from the likes of MSNBC, for her rousing GOP Convention speech, she has been the subject of racially charged taunts and cartoons (and she is […]