GOP Uses Flyswatter to Defend Against Incoming Debt Missile
Even with only modest cuts in the continuing resolution bill offered by the GOP-controlled House of Representatives, it is highly unlikely to see...
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President Grover Cleveland: the Democrat Who Vetoed 300 Bills
Prior to serving two non-consecutive terms as President of the United States (#22 from 1885-1889 and #24 from 1893-1897), Grover Cleveland’s reputation for...
Defense Department Builddown Coming?
As calls for cuts in the defense budget increased, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates knew what he would have to do: throw the...
Bill of Rights Slows Government Probe of WikiLeaks
On Tuesday, the quiet subterranean fishing expedition by the government into the WikiLeaks document disclosures last fall came to light for the first...
Obama Budget Sleight of Hand
Of all the explanations, statistics, projections, and conjecture about the Obama administration’s new budget, nothing has had the impact of this simple graph...
Egypt: Did Anything Important Happen?
When the Los Angeles Times confirmed that protests that started in January in Tunisia and then moved to Egypt were spreading to Algeria,...
Honor Killings, a Liberal Media Blindspot
When Iraqi immigrant Faleh Almaleki ran down and killed his daughter Noor, using his Jeep Grand Cherokee as a weapon, the mainstream media...
Spending on Military and Wars Rising but Cuts Are Off Limits
In an exciting, well-researched and gripping novella in the December issue of Popular Mechanics, author Erik Sofge concludes that the war between China...
Senator Rand Paul Is the Real Deal
A careful review of Kentucky Senator Rand Paul’s “maiden speech” to the Senate last week reveals what Tea Partiers and other strict constitutionalists...
Are Living Standards Improving?
Five years ago Donald Boudreaux, Economics Professor at George Mason University and author of the website Café Hayek, bought a used 1975 Sears...
Reagan Centennial: Facts are Stubborn Things
As political commentator for the Concerned Women for American's Legislative Action Committee and former speechwriter for former President George H. W. Bush, Janice...
Bernanke Issues Warnings, Accepts No Blame
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s address to the National Press Club on Thursday was a remarkable blend of hubris, claimed innocence, and warnings....
Is Breakfast Now a Luxury Item?
With the wholesale prices of orange juice and coffee increasing by 20 percent and 41 percent respectively just over the past six months,...
Removing Geithners Temptation to Play Chicken with Debt Ceiling
When Austan Goolsbee, chief economic advisor to the Obama administration, was asked about the impact not raising the debt ceiling would have on...
Chrysler Loses Money, Pays Bonuses Anyway
On Sunday, millions of Super Bowl fans will most likely ignore the huge investment Chrysler is making in television ads in promoting its...