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 […]
05.14.2012
By David Nace — For decades we have been told that unions help the middle class. We have heard it from unions, from politicians that receive union contributions and from a sympathetic media. However, when one examines the facts, this claim is completely false. How […]
05.11.2012
By Paul Driessen — Unprecedented! As bills to extend seemingly perpetual wind energy subsidies were again introduced by industry lobbyists late last year, taxpayers finally decided they’d had enough. Informed and inspired by a loose but growing national coalition of groups opposed to more giveaways with no scientifically proven net […]
05.11.2012
By Bill Wilson — By Barack Obama’s own estimate, borrowers who take part in his mortgage refinance program could “save about $3,000 a year on their mortgage, by refinancing at historically low interest rates”, as he suggested in his Feb. State of the Union Address . Later his Administration estimated that as many as 3 million borrowers would be eligible for that particular program , but with interest rates at record […]
05.10.2012
By Rebekah Rast — As if a war on America’s coal industry wasn’t enough, it turns out natural gas isn’t a friend to the environment either — or nuclear, hydro and in some cases wind power. What’s left? Solar? But then there’s the uncertainty of how to properly dispose of solar panels if they […]
05.10.2012
By Rebecca DiFede — Seeing as President Obama has sworn up and down to create more jobs but has yet to make a significant dent in the still staggering unemployment figures, the federal government has introduced some job training programs to get people geared up […]
05.09.2012
By Bill Wilson –By mainstream media accounts, the presidential election in France and parliamentary elections in Greece on May 6 were overwhelming verdicts against “austerity” measures being implemented in Europe. There is only one problem. It is a lie. First off, austerity was never really tried. Not really. In France for example, according to Eurostat , annual expenditures have actually increased from €1.095 […]