By Michael Snyder The Obama administration is telling us that the unemployment rate in the United States has fallen to 5.1 percent, but does that number actually bear any resemblance to reality? On Friday, news outlets all over America celebrated the fact that the U.S. economy added 173,000 jobs in August. We were told that […]
By Tim Dunkin When he authored the Kentucky Resolution of 1798,Thomas Jefferson based his arguments for nullification, in part, upon the compact theory of the relationship between the states and the Federal Government. According to this original understanding of the State-Federal relationship, the Constitution under which the Republic was to operate was the creation of […]
Should parents be penalized for demanding that their child be exempted from the required teaching of Islamic in Common Core curriculum? Should a teach or public school administrator penalize parents and children for seeking exemption? Parents are finding out the answers to these questions first hand. To date, public school students are required to: Attend […]
According to recent reports, a group of nearly 200 retired generals and admirals just submitted a letter to Congress pleading with them to reject President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran. “The agreement will enable Iran to become far more dangerous, render the Mideast still more unstable, and introduce new threats […]
By Stephen Dinan – The Washington Times A federal judge Friday ordered the IRS to turn over the records of any requests from the White House seeking taxpayers’ private information from the tax agency, delivering a victory to a group that for two years has been trying to pry the data loose. It’s not clear […]
By Tim Dunkin Once again, Donald Trump has managed to open up a robust national discussion about an issue that up to this point had been largely ignored by the political class. This time, the discussion is about so-called “birthright citizenship,” the idea that whenever a foreign national (regardless of legal status and with a […]
It is hard to believe that one out of every three Americans is financially supporting the other two-thirds. The unemployment rate appears much lower than it is because of the odd math behind the labor force. The latest unemployment rate of 5.3 percent sounds great until you realize that last month 640,000 Americans were plopped […]
As many Americans enter into retirement they are realizing one unfortunate thing. The new retirement plan is no retirement at all. Over the last few decades Americans were promised the idea of a comfortable retirement yet none of this has materialized because of financial swindling and a real estate bubble that will go down in the […]
A new study indicates that government policy aimed at making higher education more affordable has actually made it more expensive. Given our federal government’s adventures in the home lending market, this shouldn’t surprise us. Government-backed and subsidized home loans creating the housing bubble which collapsed in 2008/2009 with a serious impact on our national economy. […]
The so-called “trustees” of the social security system issued their annual report last week and the stenographers of the financial press dutifully reported that the day of reckoning when the trust funds run dry has been put off another year—-until 2034. So take a breath and kick the can. That’s five Presidential elections away! Except […]
