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Reid Needs To Go

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid does not take our budget crisis seriously and is refusing to budge from the failed status quo because he is more interested in scoring political points and protecting his pet projects.  Instead of working on a fiscally responsible budget, last month he wasted time pontificating about how a cowboy poetry […]

The Fight for Free Speech Must Go On

It’s been well over a year since the Supreme Court decided the landmark case Citizens United v. FEC which restored the First Amendment protection of political speech. Unfortunately, liberal elites continue to wage war on the First Amendment even today. In the current edition of the New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin lashes out against the Supreme […]

Cagle Post: Obama’s Energy Plan?

New post on President Obama’s pseudo “energy plan:” President Obama last week tried to reboot his supposed energy policy during a much hyped speech at Georgetown University. The problem is that the Obama Administration does not have an energy policy to reboot. As with other major problems facing the country, the President and his team […]

Obama Has No Shame

The same day that President Obama announces his re-election campaign, Eric Holder’s Justice Department announces that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other conspirators in the September 11th terrorist attacks will be prosecuted by a military tribunal – a direct violation of a key campaign pledge Obama made during his last run for president. Coincidence? This […]

Big Government Run Amok

A Wall Street Journal editorial today, highlights how the government job sector employs nearly twice as many people than in the manufacturing sector. When you combine the manufacturing, construction, farming, fishing, forestry, mining, and utilities industries you still do not eclipse the number of Americans who work for the government. Big government is draining the […]

Schumer Caught Red-Handed

New York Democrat Senator Charles “The Mouth of the North” Schumer was caught red-handed yesterday scheming with fellow Democrat Senators before a conference call with the press. Schumer said, in reference to language Democrats should use to describe Republican spending cuts, “I always use ‘extreme’….That is what the caucus instructed me to use.” Sen. Schumer […]

Where in the World is Joe Biden?

The Obama Administration’s chief negotiator for the budget, Vice President Joe Biden, has just wrapped up a vacation in Aspen, Colorado. In early March, President Obama touted that Vice President Biden would help broker a budget deal with Congressional Republicans. Since then, Vice President Biden has been traveling the world from Russia to Moldova, and […]

Kicking the Social Security Can Down the Road

America is facing an exploding $14 trillion national debt because our “leaders” in Washington do not want to take on the entitlement programs. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill) all but said today that Social Security reform will not come up in the United States Senate during this Congress. Social Security must be addressed to get America’s […]

Obamacare Waivers For Me, But Not For Thee

Democrat and New York Congressman Anthony Weiner (who argued Obamacare did not go far enough and pushed for a public option, but now is one of the law’s biggest supporters) is looking into getting an Obamacare waiver for New York City. Rep. Weiner has even boasted, “A lot of people who got waivers were … […]