Why Aren’t Our Armed Forces Good Enough to Protect Us? Preface: There might be an innocent … [Read more...]
Major General: Why Are Domestic Government Agencies Purchashing Enough Lethal Ammunition to Put 5 Rounds In Every American?
Flashback to 2005: Where’s the Medicare reform instead of Social Security reform, asks Senate backbencher
Under President Backbencher, we have neither. As Barack Obama and his allies unleash their full … [Read more...]
Flashback to 2005: Where’s the Medicare reform instead of Social Security reform, asks Senate backbencher
Under President Backbencher, we have neither. As Barack Obama and his allies unleash their full … [Read more...]
Quotes of the day
The crucible. After a week marred by a not-ready-for-prime-time staffer who had movement … [Read more...]
Great news: The US fiscal gap just jumped $11 trillion … to $222 trillion
Real. Forget the trillion-dollar deficits for a moment. Forget today’s $15 trillion in … [Read more...]
Quotes of the day
Why not? [N]o matter whom Republican Mitt Romney finally taps as his vice presidential nominee, … [Read more...]
Quotes of the day
Why not? [N]o matter whom Republican Mitt Romney finally taps as his vice presidential nominee, … [Read more...]
Who’s most to blame for the coming fiscal collapse of America?
Hint: It's not Bush or Obama. Note: This op-ed was done in tandem with David Weinberger, who … [Read more...]
The “Don’t trust anyone over 30″ generation is now robbing everyone under 30
Irony. Almost fifty years ago, teenagers and young adults proclaimed, “Don’t trust … [Read more...]
Chase? Hello? Mr. Dimon? Are You Really Going to Do This to a Single Mom in this Situation?
Life on this planet can be absolutely wonderful. And right across the street it can seem to … [Read more...]
WWII Vet Warren Bodeker Being Forced From Home and Forced to Exhume Wife’s Body
Bankruptcy forces 89-year-old WWII vet from home HELENA, Mont. — A World War II veteran who lists … [Read more...]
The Social Security trust fund will start going bankrupt in 2013
Don't worry, we'll just get a bailout, right? Right? Last week, Just Facts President James Agresti … [Read more...]
More financial bombshells for baby boomers: Don’t count on that inheritance
Rough. Is no age group safe from the fiscal woes of economic near-recession and pending entitlement … [Read more...]
Pelosi: ObamaCare is a right, not a privilege
Here we go. Of course it is. All progressive policy preferences are, you know. Remember, once … [Read more...]
Thou Shalt Not Steal…Unless You Have To
Rules and rulers Public policy question of the next decade: Is it okay to steal? Follow-up question: … [Read more...]
Let’s face it: Most forms of entitlement reform are theft
Candor. In the debate over how to deal with America’s looming budget problems, liberals and … [Read more...]
Interview with George Faught, Candidate for Congress in the 2nd District of Oklahoma
Taking the fight to Washington Last year, Representative Dan Boren (D-OK) made the surprise decision … [Read more...]
Paul Ryan: Seniors deserve so much more from President Obama
Don't we all. Allahpundit highlighted the latest government report on the looming insolvency of … [Read more...]
Video: “Dogs Against Romney” debuts new ad as long-term unfunded entitlement liabilities reach $35.5 trillion
Priorities. The bad news? Romney once put his dog in a kennel strapped to the top of his car during … [Read more...]
Party like it’s 1932
Who's FDR now? The Wall Street Journal’s Daniel Henninger recently pointed out the parallels … [Read more...]
German solution: Tax the young!
Kinderfeindlichkeit For those who like to cite Germany as some sort of model of fiscal probity and … [Read more...]
House passes payroll tax cut deal
Yippee! Not. After House Republicans caved in negotiations earlier this week, this should come as no … [Read more...]
Panic in the Wind Power lobby?
Federal teat running dry There is a little noted element of the payroll tax holiday extension going … [Read more...]
“No Drama Obama” again “can’t wait” to pass a payroll tax cut extension
Yuck. Payroll tax extension, how do I hate thee? Let me count the ways. // I hate thee to the depth … [Read more...]
Santorum criticizes Ronald Reagan on Social Security
Audacious? Gotta say, every time I read a headline that makes me think I’ll like Rick Santorum … [Read more...]
Why Republicans should have stood firmly against any payroll tax cut extension
Advice direct from Alexander Hamilton. While Republicans and Republicans near a deal to extend the … [Read more...]
Report: Democrats drop demand for new tax on millionaires in payroll tax standoff
Cave. Not so much a big win for us as a big loss for them. Democrats backed away from their demand … [Read more...]
Sen. Barbara Mikulski leads “occupation” of the Super Committee
Association. Never mind the abundant evidence of the violent impulses of the Occupy Wall Street … [Read more...]
New Obama nominee for Social Security board a big fan of rationing
The next Berwick? Barack Obama’s appointment of Donald Berwick as the head of Medicare and … [Read more...]
Obama on offense: Romney, Perry have “embraced policies the American people oppose”
Let's talk about anything but the economy! A new memo from the Obama reelection campaign attacks GOP … [Read more...]