By David Limbaugh February 7, 2014 6:55 am President Obama must believe he’s politically untouchable at this point, given his seeming indifference to the multitude of scandals, failures and other outrages for which he is directly responsible. I intended to write this column solely on the devastating Congressional Budget Office report putting the final nail in […]
by Daniel Pipes Feb 3, 2014 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner Some, especially in the mainstream media, pretend that not Jerusalem but Tel Aviv serves as the capital of Israel. (Tel Aviv hosts the Ministry of Defense but not much else of the central government.) The weblog entry documents some of those delusions, […]
U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) / Newscom Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) this morning sent a letter to fellow lawmakers urging them to reject President Obama’s nominee for a key Justice Department post because he blocked justice while head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund by portraying a “cowardly, unrepentant” cop killer as an American hero. […]
Obamacare moves people further away from jobs and shifts their health care costs to taxpayers. Good news or bad? The White House took up defensive measures yesterday after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released a new estimate: Obamacare will cause the equivalent of 2.3 million people to stop working. “Double ouch,” said The Washington Post’s […]
The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) will cause a larger than-expected reduction in working hours—eliminating the equivalent of about 2.3 million workers in 2021. In 2011 it was estimated the law would cause a reduction of about 800,000 full-time equivalent workers. The reality is Obamacare will push the equivalent of about 2 million workers out of […]
The President’s State of the Union address overshadowed some very important news relating to housing finance reform. Last Wednesday, Senators Bob Corker (R–TN) and Mark Warner (D–VA) promised to renew efforts to pass a bill they introduced in June 2013 that would close down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It also appears that Senators Tim […]
Iran has received the first installment of $4.2 billion in frozen assets as part of a nuclear deal with world powers, Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi told ISNA news agency Saturday, according to AFP. Unblocking the funds under the landmark deal in which Iran agreed to roll back parts of its nuclear program and halt […]
An energy project that would be good for the U.S economy, can be built without taxpayer help, and would have little to no environmental impact? That’s the Keystone pipeline President Obama keeps blocking. A new environmental impact statement released Friday said again that the Keystone XL pipeline is safe. “It finds that the pipeline, a […]
The end of the Affordable Care Act is within sight, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says, outlining Republican plans to propose health care legislation later this year. “In my opinion, Obamacare is on borrowed time,” the Virginia Republican said in an interview for Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “As we begin to see the […]
Labor leaders who have spent months lobbying unsuccessfully for special protections under the Affordable Care Act warned this week that the White House’s continued refusal to help is dampening union support for Democratic candidates in this year’s midterm elections. Leaders of two major unions, including the first to endorse Obama in 2008, said they have […]
