10.18.2011

Must Reads for October 18

10.18.2011

Momentum Builds for National Debt Relief Amendment

By Kevin Mooney — Momentum continues to build for a National Debt Relief Amendment (NDRA) designed to give the American people a greater say before Congress acts to increase the flow of red ink. In just the past few weeks, state legislators in Montana, Ohio, […]

10.18.2011

Most Americans just don’t care about government

By Adam Bitely — Driving across Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia over the past week opened my eyes to a world I absolutely love. That is a world where the affairs of politicians and government policy matter little. Virginia has elections coming up in […]

10.18.2011

‘Welcome to the occupation’

By Howard Rich — According to a recent Pew Research Center study, most Americans are ignoring the Occupy Wall Street movement. “There is significantly less public interest in the current Occupy Wall Street protests than there was in the Tea Party protests in early 2009, […]

10.17.2011

Federal spending increased 5% this year

To all those who believe that the federal government has cut back in these tough economic times, it is simply just a myth. In reality, the federal government has increased spending by 5% this year : When Republicans took control of the House in January, they pledged to make deep cuts in federal spending, and […]

10.17.2011

Must Reads for October 17

10.17.2011

Some of Obama’s cheerleaders are putting down their pom-poms

By Rebecca DiFede — In the 2008 election race, Barack Obama swept through the nation with a wave of energy and promise that had enthused and inspired Democratic voters. He had bridged the gap between old and young, and in fact his campaign was built […]

10.17.2011

Federally owned lands help no one

By Rebekah Rast — The federal government owns almost 650 million acres of land in the U.S .  That’s about 30 percent of all the land area in the nation and includes national parks, forests and wildlife refuges. That’s  1 out of every 3 acres in the U.S.—1 out of every 2 acres in the West, says […]

10.17.2011

More calls for tyranny over America

By Bill Wilson — Things are starting to get serious.  First Peter Orszag, Obama’s former Director for Management and Budget called for “a bit less democracy,” advocating issues relating to the economy be turned over to a panel of experts.  No pesky elected representatives of the people need apply.  Then, North Carolina Democrat Governor Beverly Perdue suggested we skip elections — just […]

10.14.2011

Labor Department’s green folly

By Rick Manning — The Labor Department’s green jobs training debacle unearthed by the Department’s own Inspector General reveals that the program has failed miserably to achieve its goals .  The Labor Department initially claimed that 79,854 would get jobs, while only 8,035 found employment.  Even worse, only 1,336 of the trainees who found employment still had the job six months later. […]

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