By Adam Bitely – No one needs to tell you how big an issue unemployment is in America, and especially in Washington, D.C. As of March 2011, the District of Columbia posted an unemployment rate of 9.5 percent . Knowing that the unemployment rate is that high might surprise you when you learn that D.C. politicians, […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Tuesday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : White House will release Osama Bin Laden death photo … Victory in Abottabad Conspiracy!?: White House modifies Osama Bin Laden story… Brennan and the Bin Laden story bungle In Bin Laden wake, U.S. faces bigger challenges Bin Laden could run but he couldn’t hide George Will: Times change Rasmussen: No immediate bounce for Obama… The great inflation of the 2010’s Sowell: Fed up with the Fed? ObamaCare for thee, but not for me Nanny of the month: Chicago public school ban on homemade lunches Are you getting your money’s worth out of public education? 96% worry about federal debt, 74% want spending cap Is it time for the U.S. to get out of NATO?

By Kevin Mooney – When Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-K.Y.) floated an amendment earlier this year that would effectively repeal ObamaCare, formally called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, union operatives offered up a forceful defense of the legislation. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) […]

By Rick Manning – The GAO came out with a study late last week in response to a request by a handful of congressional Democrats to determine among other things, why participation in individual 401(k) plans has been limited to about 50 percent of the workforce. In […]

By Rebekah Rast – If you find an investment no longer meets your needs, you quit investing in it and find a worthy substitution. That is exactly what is happening within the public school system. Taxpayers are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with their return on their […]

Remember earlier this month when a Chicago public school banned homemade lunches? If not, read “ The Public School Ban on Homemade Lunches ”  and watch the video below: This is just the kind face of fascism… ( H/T Reason.tv )

This episode of Uncommon Knowledge features Andrew Ferguson, a former speechwriter for President George H. W. Bush and the current senior editor at the Weekly Standard. The author of Fools’ Names and Land of Lincoln, Ferguson’s most recent book is entitled Crazy U: One Dad’s […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Monday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : Victory: Osama Bin Laden shot dead Buried at sea? Cartoon of the day, “Victory” The death of a terrorist Bin Laden’s death brings closure Photos inside of Osama’s compound… Lifting Obama’s oil embargo A voluntarily balanced budget How adults can discuss the federal budget and debt limit Team Obama spotlight: Craig Becker Our kind of class warfare: Let’s have a tax on political power Why birtherism is here to stay…

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By Adam Bitely – Efforts are underway in the U.S. Senate to introduce a balanced budget amendment . If adopted, the federal budget would be constitutionally required to be balanced, and the politicians in D.C. would have no choice but to make sure that they pay for all of the nation’s yearly fiscal obligations in the year that […]