President Obama said something truly great in his State of the Union Address this year. He told Congress: [S]ince the most important investment many families make is their home, send me legislation that protects taxpayers from footing the bill for a housing crisis ever again, and keeps the dream of homeownership alive for future generations. […]
Thousands of supporters and opponents of Venezuela’s socialist government have taken to the streets this past week. Initiated by student groups, the protestors are voicing their grievances against soaring crime rates, high inflation, a shortage of basic goods, and a lack of political and economic freedom. All the while, the Obama Administration has been relatively […]
ULI DECK/DPA Three weeks ago I traveled to Chattanooga, Tennessee on behalf of the Beacon Institute to educate workers and community leaders on the perils of unionizing the 3,000 worker plant. My message: beware turning Chattanooga, a surprisingly fast-growing metro-area in the South, into Detroit. So when the plant workers rejected the UAW effort to […]
Donald Rumsfeld, a man who doesn’t mince his words, placed the blame for the Benghazi disaster squarely on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in an interview posted by Breitbart TV on Thursday. Others, like the British government and the International Red Cross, were aware how dangerous Benghazi was and pulled their personnel out, but […]
The overturning of a San Diego law restricting residents’ right to carry a firearm outside their homes for self-defense is a clear win for gun-rights advocates and sets up a showdown on the issue before the U.S. Supreme Court, a Heritage Foundation legal analyst says. “This is the fifth federal appellate court to rule on […]
Newscom The Index of Belonging and Rejection released this week from the Family Research Council (FRC) reveals a dismaying statistic about the state of American families: 55 percent of 15-to-17-year-olds in America do not live in intact families. Further, more than 40 percent of all children are born out of wedlock, and one in three […]
Since the Edward Snowden leaks to The Guardian began last year, the National Security Agency (NSA) has been a political hot potato. Yet, whatever you think of the NSA, it is clearly a federal agency authorized by federal statute. Some lawmakers in the state of Maryland—home to the NSA’s headquarters in Ft. Meade—have recently proposed […]
Pete Souza In the movie “The Naked Gun,” crack detective Frank Drebin comes across a firework factory that’s on fire and is collapsing in on itself. “Nothing to see here,” he calmly tells on-lookers as employees flee the explosions. “Please disburse.” It’s a sentiment echoed by Sarah Kliff of The Washington Post. Kliff takes pains […]
Newscom Another day, another administratively enacted Obamacare delay. But today’s employer mandate delay, as outlined in the final rules, has interesting terms and conditions to qualify. Originally, as the law states, the employer mandate was supposed to take effect January 1, 2014 and would force all employers with more than 50 full-time employees—defined as those […]
Outspoken, liberal talk show host Rosie O’Donnell returned to the set of The View last week and gave updates on her children. She announced that her oldest son, Parker, had joined the Citadel and was “the number one Cadet” at his school. “…How do you annoy your left-wing liberal pacifist mother? You become a big […]
