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President Obama: Stop Putting Party Ahead of Country

President Obama, what is the reason for the new Right To Work law in Michigan?  As you and your team always say:  elections have consequences!  Your continued opposition to any innovative labor reform bill in suffering states will be a part of your awful economic legacy. Michigan’s 9.1 percent unemployment rate is one of the […]

Politico: DeMint’s exit impact the tea party?

Sen. Jim DeMint has always been a strong, solid conservative and I can think of no one better to lead the Heritage Foundation in the years to come. My friend, outgoing President Ed Feulner has made Heritage into one of the most important think tanks in the country and a vital resource for the conservative […]

Cagle Post: Bob Costas’ Political Football

In a tragedy that has affected a football team, a city, and more importantly a three-month-old little girl, politics has taken center stage where it should not be. Kansas City Chief Jovan Belcher fatally shot his girlfriend, the mother of his daughter, on Saturday morning then drove to the Chiefs’ practice facility and turned the […]

Bob Costas’ Fumble

In a tragedy that has affected a football team, a city, and more importantly a three-month-old little girl, politics has taken center stage where it should not be. Kansas City Chief Jovan Belcher fatally shot his girlfriend and the mother of his daughter on Saturday morning then drove to the Chiefs’ practice facility and turned […]

Breitbart.com: Over The Cliff We Go

President Obama is making a mockery of the seriousness of our spending and debt problems with his role in the fiscal cliff negotiations. There had been talk earlier in the week of a deal involving $1.2 trillion in tax increases and $400 billion in delayed Medicare cuts. This would have been a terrible bargain, but […]

The Dishonest Broker

President Obama’s offer to avoid the fiscal cliff includes $50 billion in new stimulus spending and would change the law to allow the President of the United States to increase the nation’s debt limit whenever he wants without congressional approval. Why would the President include this ridiculous nonsense in a bill to avoid tax hikes […]

Fiscal Reality Check

America has a big spending problem – we are more than $16,000,000,000,000 (16 trillion) in debt.  That’s a fact. Here’s another fact regarding the recent fiscal cliff proposal reported in Politico this morning:  a deal involving $1.2 trillion in tax increases and $400 billion in phantom Medicare cuts will actually produce a net negative result […]