Voters: Spending Cuts, Yes; Just Not My Programs
The Cato Institute?s massive 262-page study, Downsizing Government, by Chris Edwards, is the most recent offering of suggestions and recommendations for cutting severely...
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Myth: The Sky Will Fall if the Debt Ceiling Isn’t Raised
At this moment the national debt, according to the U.S. National Debt Clock, is at $14.094 trillion and increasing by $4 billion every...
S&P Downgrades Japan: Harbinger for US
Standard and Poor’s gave plenty of reasons for its downgrade of Japan’s credit rating yesterday such as increasing annual deficits and soaring national...
Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report: Classic Misdirection
After nearly two years of investigation, reviewing millions of documents and conducting hundreds of interviews, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) released its...
Housing Double-dip Is Here: Case-Shiller
One of the most-watched and highly regarded indices giving direction to the housing market is the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index published every month....
Is the Housing Market Beginning to Clear?
The conflicting news reports on the housing market can give the casual observer a headache: “December Sales of U.S. Existing Homes Jump to...
Robert E. Lee: A Man Without a Country for 110 Years
Several states officially recognize and celebrate January 19 as Robert E. Lee’s birthday, including the state of Virginia as part of Jackson-Lee Day...
Freedom of Information Act: Shield or Bludgeon?
The Supreme Court is about to hear arguments in the case of FCC v. AT&T which could have significant negative impacts on privately-held...
Corporation for Public Broadcasting: Trim, or Uproot?
When Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) introduced a bill in the 111th Congress to defund National Public Radio (NPR), two things were working against...
Kagan, Sotomayor, Ginsburg, and the 4th Amendment
When the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear oral arguments on a Fourth Amendment case decided by the Kentucky Supreme Court (Kentucky v....
The Passing of Aaron Zelman, Founder of JPFO
When Aaron Zelman, the founder of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, died just before Christmas at his home in Wisconsin, eulogies...
Banks Still Suffering
Keeping in mind that the “beige book” report from the Federal Reserve yesterday is only a compilation of anecdotal reports from businesses across...
Paul Volcker: Insights From an Insider
With the announcement by Reuters that former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker was going to resign shortly from the Obama administration came the...
Starving ObamaCare
When the new House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (left, R-Wis.) announced that his budget committee would produce budgets for the agencies of the...
WH Chief of Staff William Daley: The Chicago Merry-go-round
When President Obama announced the appointment on January 6 of former Clinton administration Commerce Secretary William Daley as his new Chief of Staff,...