Can ObamaCare Be Repealed, Nullified?
U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), who has earned a "Freedom Index" rating of 90 percent in the current Congress to date, has introduced a bill in the House to...
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Citigroup Bailout Retrospective
In the announcement that the U.S.Treasury was likely to make a profit selling its stock in Citigroup, much was made about the great returns that sale would generate, and...
Recess Appointments and the Constitution
“Side-stepping Senate confirmation,” declared the New York Times. “This is going to make problems worse,” exclaimed Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). “What this is going to do is cause the election...
Housing: Washington Only Delaying Inevitable
Friday’s announcement of more intervention in the housing mortgage market will result in a deeper, longer, and more painful delay in the inevitable decline in housing prices that are...
ObamaCare: The Final Nail, or the Last Straw?
In responding to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) incredulous “Are you serious?” about the constitutionality of Obamacare, many have written persuasively that the healthcare law is in fact unconstitutional....
Sestak Coverup
The main reason Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the top Republican on the House Oversight Committee, is pressing the issue over Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) is owing to the reticence...
Reports of ACORN’s Death Greatly Exaggerated
Following the announcement on Sunday that the ACORN Association Board had “approved a set of steps to responsibly manage the process of bringing its operations to a close over...
Healthcare Legislation Process as Distasteful as Sausage Making
Back in the good old days, once upon a time, moving a bill into law was clear, transparent, and usually based upon the Constitution. Nearly 2½ million viewers have...
Another Obama, Clinton Fundraiser Going to Jail
It surprised few close observers of the current political scene to learn that another Democratic fundraiser, Hassan Nemazee, admitted to fraud in raising money for Hillary Clinton and Barack...
Greenspan’s Implausible Denial
In his 48-page paper presented on March 19 to the Brookings Institution, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan now blames the collapse of the Soviet Union and the resurgence...
Free Markets, Deregulation, and Blame
Free markets, in the full sense of the phrase, exist only in the minds and imaginations of free-market economists from the Austrian School, such as Ludwig von Mises and...
Mitch McConnell: One Smart Political Pragmatist
Republican Minority Leader Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) had a strategy even before President Obama was inaugurated, according to the New York Times. Recognizing that Republicans had lost control of...
Jobs Bill: The Law of Intended Consequences
With great fanfare, the Obama administration celebrated its first policy victory of the year — the $17.6 billion jobs bill. Eleven Republican Senators helped push the bill through the...
Social Security’s Nest Egg is Officially Cracked
In a misleading article by Associated Press that IOUs “stashed away” in an investment account in Parkersburg, West Virginia, were going to have to be sold to meet Social Security...
Lehman Bros.: Pinprick That Burst the Bubble
The culprits blamed for the failure of Lehman Brothers in September of 2008 included the company’s top executives, their accountants, their highly-leveraged loans that had started going bad, their...