To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Wednesday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : Debt default: The next big Obama lie? 2011 budget deficit jumps up 15% in first 6 months… Stossel: Welcome budget-cut talk Some in GOP squirm over Paul Ryan budget Dissecting the liberal assault on Paul Ryan’s budget Budget deal only reduces real discretionary spending by around $15 billion… Speaker Boehner: Myth vs. fact on spending agreement A simpler tax code would be fairer, more efficient and less infuriating New media catches Obama bribing the fourth estate States rebel against ObamaCare’s insurance exchanges Obama is just plain bad at politics What is the NFLPA up to these days? The post-postal society The housing boom and bust How the nature conservancy secures government land grabs

By Bill Wilson – Barack Obama is threatening that if Congress does not increase the $14.294 trillion national debt ceiling, the nation will default. In a letter to Congress, Obama’s Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner wrote , “Failure to raise the limit would precipitate a default by the United States.” It is a rather curious formulation. Note that the […]

By Adam Bitely – Following the beginning of the “lockout” in the NFL, the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) decertified itself as a labor union — meaning that it no longer represents the players to the team owners. According to the National Football Post , the NFLPA announced within moments […]

By Howard Rich – For years, America’s left-leaning mainstream media outlets have belittled and rebuked members of the new media — questioning their credibility, impugning their integrity and assigning all manner of self-serving motivations to their contributions to the marketplace of ideas. In the immediate […]

With talk of budget deal gimmicks swirling on Capitol Hill about the late-night budget deal reached last Friday that averted a government shutdown, some are saying that the deal is not as good as advertised. The Chairman of the Republican Study Committee, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), has announced his opposition to the deal ( amongst other conservatives also opposing ): […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Tuesday afternoon, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : GOP should negotiate on 2012 budget from strength Default a big lie if debt ceiling not raised Veronique de Rugy: A bankrupt option Sowell: Another spending cut plan Byron York: The liberals’ plan–gut defense and tax, tax, tax Congress has become the least dangerous branch… House GOP unveils trillion dollar spending plan The IRS running amok: Forcing America’s banks to comply with foreign tax law The case against government subsidies for public broadcasting The public school ban on homemade lunches Government by waiver Fix public campaign financing by eliminating it The green jobs myth

The Obama administration is pushing a lie–and a big one to boot. But when aren’t they pushing falsehoods for political gain? The current mistruth from the Obama administration is about what would happen if the debt ceiling is not raised. They claim that if the […]

Even though it violates existing law, the IRS is seeking to impose a regulation that will discourage foreign investment in the U.S. economy and undermine the competitiveness of American banks. This Center for Freedom & Prosperity Foundation video provides five reasons why this proposal is […]

By Rebekah Rast – The public school lunch program is again making headlines. You might have thought this issue was already resolved when Obama signed into law the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, a bill strongly supported by First Lady Michelle Obama in her […]

By Robert Romano – When the House Appropriations Committee presented its original plan for the 2011 budget continuing resolution, it only put forward about $35 billion in cuts . The proposal went over like a lead balloon with the American people, however, and Committee Chairman Hal Rodgers had to go back to the drawing board, eventually […]