Obama’s New Defense Strategy Leaves America Less Safe

President Obama’s new national defense strategy is a budget-driven exercise masquerading as a strategic plan, writes Heritage’s Kim Holmes, former Assistant Secretary of State, in The Washington Times. In trotting ...

U.S. Debt Nears $15.194 Trillion Ceiling

The Treasury Department has begun maneuvers to avoid hitting the debt ceiling, as the Obama administration waits for Congress to return from the holiday break before it can raise the ...

Falsehoods Abound in Case of California High-Speed Rail

Last week, the independent California High-Speed Rail Peer Review Group recommended that the state legislature not proceed with funding the proposed Los Angeles–San Francisco project. Its argument was grounded in ...

Top 10 Most Read Foundry Posts of 2011

This year saw the death of Osama bin Laden, the Arab Spring and the fall of regimes in Libya and Egypt, a conservative revolution in Wisconsin, continued joblessness in America, ...

Top 10 Charts of 2011

Just how high is America’s tax burden? How bad is the entitlement crisis? Sure, the national debt is big, but just how big is it really? Numbers help tell the ...

Web gambling gets boost from Obama administration

By Jim Wolf and Nicola Leske (Reuters) – The Obama administration cleared the way for states to legalize Internet poker and certain other online betting in a switch that may ...

The Obama Christmas Song for Liberals

Psychologists have a name for adults who still believe in Santa… The Obama Christmas Song for Liberals topsyWidgetPreload({ “url”: “http%3A%2F%2Fconservativepapers.com%2Fnews%2F2011%2F12%2F23%2Fthe-obama-christmas-song-for-liberals%2F”, “style”: “big”, “title”: “The Obama Christmas Song for Liberals #Deficit ...

Obama Places Himself on the Continuum of Greatness – Considers Himself 4th Greatest President

Posted on December 20, 2011 by John Hinderaker There was an initially-overlooked moment in President Obama’s recent interview with 60 Minutes. Excerpts from the interview were played on television, and ...

Obama: A Very Beatable President – But the GOP can still blow it

We are a little over 10 months from Election Day, and the Christmas hope of many conservatives is that voters next November will deliver a decisive rebuke to President Barack ...

Mega-Omni: Another Get-Out-of-Town Budget Debacle

The House mega-omni—the massive nine-bill appropriations package now moving toward a vote in the House—represents another disappointing failure to cut spending and prove Congress can instill some measure of fiscal ...