By Rebekah Rast – America’s first lady is hell bent on fighting the obesity epidemic. For now it is focused on the nation’s children. She has interfered in school lunch and snack programs, and has even gotten one of the largest companies in the world, […]

By Bill Wilson – On Feb. 25, the people of Ireland headed to the polls to elect a new government for the first time since the nation accepted an €67.5 billion bailout from the European Union (EU) and International Monetary Fund (IMF). The result is widely expected […]

By William Warren – This cartoon is about Oil…and how Obama is dismantling our Domestic Energy Production while the price of Foreign Oil Skyrockets.  Completely nonsensical…but then again, this IS Obama, afterall.

By Rick Manning – $220 a barrel oil? That’s what the headlines on MSN blared , with oil industry predicting that the price for a barrel of oil could top the $200 a barrel mark if exports from Libya and Algeria are cut off due to civil unrest in those countries. […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Thursday Morning, Here are your morning Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : Saving our nation from debt: An open letter from Rep. Jim Jordan Budgeting for dummies Lawless legislators flee rather than balance budgets How public employees and taxpayers were scammed by politicians United Federation of Teachers spends millions on dinners, parties, parking, coffee as thousands of teachers face layoffs Obama’s badger state blues Democrats just don’t understand the new populism The taxpayer’s right to bargain for much more Barone: Who benefits from government unions? Goldberg: Public unions must go GOP floats $2 billion a week in cuts… Stossel: Why does government suppress information? Russ Roberts: The alternative to unions Obama Lawyers Could Open the Way for “Mini-Unions” with Ruling in Health Care Case Uncommon knowledge: Radical in chief Transparency: Lobbyists say that White House sends meetings off-site to hide them…

By Deborah Young – Union teachers in Wisconsin over the past week are speaking out in protest on the possible loss of their right to collective bargaining. For any public union member and union to speak as if the majority of our population, the taxpayers, […]

By Robert Romano – By now, it is well known that 14 Wisconsin State Senators have fled their state to avoid a vote on Governor Scott Walker’s proposal close a $3.6 billion budget gap by requiring that state employees contribute to their own pension and health care […]

By Howard Rich – President Obama has said that the cuts included in his fiscal 2012 budget will force “tough choices and sacrifices.” Meanwhile, House Speaker John Boehner invoked a former tax-hiking president in defending his chamber’s proposed budget reductions. “When we say we are […]

Below is a special letter from RSC Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan on our nation’s debt: To My Fellow Americans, Uncle Sam is spending you into the poorhouse. Taxes, inflation, unemployment, interest rates – all could skyrocket if Washington keeps spending trillions of dollars it doesn’t have. Unless we begin […]

An author, journalist, and social anthropologist (PhD Harvard), Stanley Kurtz is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and a contributing editor to National Review Online. His latest book is Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism. “President Obama […]