05.16.2012

By Robert Romano — Here we go again. Speaking to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation 2012 Fiscal Summit on May 15 , House Speaker John Boehner once again called for offsetting spending cuts in return for increasing the $16.394 trillion debt ceiling later this year. This follows the failed attempt in 2011 to do precisely the same thing. All the […]
05.16.2012

By Rebekah Rast — $3.5 million a day. That just happens to be the amount of money California is looking to spend each day until 2017 for 130 miles of its high-speed rail system . It seems ironic for a state facing a $117,747,412,000 debt and a recently announced deficit of $16 billion , to be so earnest about spending another $6 billion on only a segment of a rail system , or $3.5 […]
05.16.2012

By David Bozeman — So, the newspaper that broke the Watergate scandal is reduced to this? The Washington Post, apparently in panic mode over Mitt Romney’s climbing poll numbers, ran a Page 1 expose of the former governor’s alleged bullying nearly fifty years ago . Grab your smelling salts, everyone and stop the presses! The concept of bullying now dominates […]
05.15.2012

By Robert Romano — When Greece entered the Eurozone in 2001, it was with the promise that the common currency would benefit the Greek economy, facilitating trade and commerce, and crucially, lead to lower cost borrowing both privately and by the government. Now, more than ten years […]
05.14.2012

AMEN! From the Labor Relations Institute : The United States District Court for the District of Columbia just ruled that the NLRB lacked a valid 3-member quorum to adopt its “ambush election” rulemaking in December 2011. You can read the decision here . Since Member Brian Hayes refused to participate in the actual vote on […]
05.14.2012

By Adam Bitely — 2012 Presidential candidate Mitt Romney makes many promises in his 2012 platform. According to one of the prominent themes on his website, Mitt will “build a simpler, smaller, smarter government.” But a close examination of his platform shows that his statement […]
05.14.2012

By Rick Manning — The U.S. House of Representatives took aim at the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) this past week by voting to prohibit the Obama-run labor board from using any funds to sue any state on the question of secret ballot elections. The House action […]