Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) will introduce a bill this Friday in the U.S. Senate to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. From Newsmax : “As Congress considers ways to close the $1.6 trillion deficit, cutting funding for the CPB has even been proposed by President Obama’s […]

The biggest monthly deficit of all time was reported this month: The federal government posted its largest monthly deficit in history in February at $223 billion, according to preliminary numbers the Congressional Budget Office released Monday morning. That figure tops last February’s record of $220.9 billion, and marks the 29th straight […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Monday Morning, Here are your morning Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : ObamaCare’s March madness Number of ObamaCare waivers passes 1,000 The Rationer-in-Chief: Senate Dems give up on Donald Berwick… Barone: Who’s to blame for Union woes? Wisconsin fleebagger Dems may return soon… Wisconsin labor education requirement used to improve union acceptance, recruit members When it comes to our currency, there is always a “Plan B”… Big Government Bozo of the Week: Cathy Zoi Are we under economic attack? To spend or not to spend, that is the question Pension push California to the brink… States are serious on budgets, unlike Washington Global warming by another name George Will: The spotlight-chasing candidates of 2012 The truth about Fannie and Freddie’s role in the housing crisis

By Frank McCaffrey – Cathy Zoi worked for the Department of Energy in the Obama Administration and recently moved on. Zoi was using her status in Big Government to bring in the big bucks! Americans for Limited Government’s Don Todd has made her this week’s Big Government […]

By Robert Romano – Are we under economic attack? The author of a controversial 2009 Pentagon-contracted report, Kevin D. Freeman, seems to think so. Penned for the Department’s Irregular Warfare Support Program (IWSP), “ Economic Warfare: Risks and Responses ” outlines a “potential direct economic attack on the U.S. Treasury and U.S. […]

By Rebekah Rast – A “Plan B” is put in place as a backup, a form of insurance in case “Plan A” doesn’t work out. A Plan B is valuable when taking a cross-country road trip and you happen to hit road construction and can’t […]

By Rick Manning – The great dichotomy in American politics is playing out in Wisconsin and elsewhere with the future of our nation at stake. Public employees, whose paychecks are at the heart of the battle over the size and scope of government, are taking to the […]

We have documented in this space numerous times the shortfalls of Hilda Solis and her Labor Department. Her time in the Obama Administration has been long and devastating enough. This great editorial ran in today’s Washington Examiner : Thanks to his dogged insistence on prosecuting 9/11 conspirators in civilian courts and his refusal to prosecute […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Friday Morning, Here are your morning Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : Unemployment rate: 8.9% Public unions get too ‘friendly’ Dodging the pension disaster… Cartoon of the day, “Poisonous Gas Prices” Judge Vinson’s ruling, Obama’s decision Vinson to White House: Stop stalling House GOP Confront the EPA with Tea Party Vigor, As Newt Gingrich Seeks to Placate Free Market Critics Senator Jim DeMint stars in School Choice documentary Seniority should not make teachers immune to layoffs Obama administration’s frail defense of common sense testifies to power of teachers’ unions To surly, with love: Are teachers overpaid? Good news/bad news about the SEIU going broke Global warming alarmists flip-flop on snowfall Room to cut: Federal gov’t is wasting billions Washington Examiner: It’s time for Labor Secretary Hilda Solis to go… Wal-Mart and creative destruction

By Bill Wilson – The Department of Labor’s unemployment report is dramatically at odds with Gallup and other non-partisan employment rate predicting surveys.  If the Labor Department is to be believed, the job market is improving rapidly with almost a million jobs created in the private sector with […]