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Sandy: Log-Rolling from Alaska to New Jersey
The House of Representatives passed the second installment of the Hurricane Sandy bailout Tuesday night, as Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) brought up a bill he knew would pass without support from his own...
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Ceilings and Shutdowns: Understanding Government at an Impasse. A...
The size of the U.S. government has grown exponentially and it has become superfluous in the supposedly free-market American economy. Yet it is the nature of the government’s enormity that presents...
View ArticleKasich Pitches Obamacare Surrender as Pragmatism
Ohio Governor John Kasich announced his surrender to Washington spending gimmicks on February 4, calling for the expansion of Medicaid eligibility as part of his biennial budget proposal. Kasich, a...
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Freedomworks Issue Analysis: Marketplace Fairness Act
The Marketplace Fairness Act would allow the states to compel online retailers to collect taxes on remote sales, increasing the cost of doing business and damaging competition unfairly.The Act places...
View ArticleAustin Bag Ban: Building a Foundation for Tyranny
Austin Texas, whose claim to fame is its prolific “weirdness”, has undertaken a new effort to catapult their “weirdness” to new and unimaginable heights. While liberal mayors and governors across the...
View ArticleTexas: Beer is Good, Leave It Alone
The Texas legislature is currently considering a bill (SB639) that would place new anti-competitive regulations on the state's beer industry. The legislation attempts to stop 'reach-back pricing' by...
View ArticleNY Soda Ban Gets The Shaft...Errrr...Straw
Months ago, New York's Mayor Bloomberg put into action a Very Serious Plan designed to subvert New York City's life-draining, obesity-encouraging, self-immolating commitment to drinking soda out of...
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Creativity vs. Conviction: A Brief History of Federal Budget Reform. A...
The recent news cycle has been dominated with concern over the US Government's budget process: the debt, deficits, sequestration, and the continuing failure of the Senate to pass a budget in over 4...
View ArticleOhio Becomes Medicaid Expansion Twilight Zone
Ohio has become a Medicaid expansion Twilight Zone, as avowedly conservative Governor John Kasich works with progressive activists to deliver new entitlement benefits with money that doesn't exist....
View ArticleState Cigarette Tax Hikes Totally Earning Cash; For Other States.
Years ago, Illinois decided that smoking was bad for its citizens and put a cigarette tax into place thinking they'd do two things: one, break the people who live there of a nasty filthy habit that was...
View ArticleHow to report voter fraud - Crash Course.
Voter fraud is a contentious issue of late; liberals swear it is a myth propagated by evil racist conservatives. We know better. Most on the right are aware of the voter fraud issue but many have...
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MSM Ignored Oct. 30 Report Showing US Dropped Out of Top 10 in Prosperity Index
By: Jim Hoft and Rachel PulaskiThe 2012 Legatum Prosperity Index found that the "American Dream is in jeopardy" and "The national ethos of the U.S. is under threat." The assessment of prosperity is...
View ArticleAmerica is Shrugging
President Obama’s reelection triggered a ticking time bomb of fed up Americans. Across the country small businesses and large corporations alike are closing their doors or laying off hundreds of...
View ArticleNo Official Has a Mandate
Politicians love to talk about a "mandate" when they are elected, as if the margin of their victory or the issues on which they ran their campaigns form a basis for governing. In fact, the only mandate...
View ArticleCalifornia: What Thirty Years of Democrat Rule Looks Like
Andrew Leonard at Salon wrote a piece this week titled, "The GOP’s horrible California nightmare." The title of the piece should have been "California's Democratic nightmare." From the article...
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How Conservatives Can Create A Cultural Renaissance Among Today’s Youth
On Sat, Dec 1, college football was the center of attention in many American households as the Alabama Crimson Tide and Georgia Bulldogs squared off in an intense battle for the SEC Championship....
View ArticleWorkplace Freedom and the Talking Point Machine
Police in Michigan turned aside oganized labor violence on Thursday as opponents of workplace freedom tried in vain to intimidate lawmakers in their workplace. The Michigan Senate passed Right To Work...
View ArticlePlan B Was a Failure From the Start
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) has been playing a bad messaging strategy, one that raises tactics above principle, conflating the fortunes of the Speaker with that of his party and his party...
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FreedomWorks Issue Analysis: Paycheck Protection and Pennsylvania
Paycheck protection laws prevent union leadership from spending compulsory membership dues on political expenses prior to obtaining consent from membership as individuals.Paycheck protection programs...
View ArticleThere Is No National Debt
As we approach the next artificially constructed, politically motivated, intentionally promoted national crisis, we should keep one thing in mind: though we speak of a national debt, there is no single...
View ArticleFinal Draft Of Debt Ceiling Script For GOP Failure
Forget all the post-election hand wringing over shifting demographics and outreach, the real problem for Republicans remains their complete inability to craft a narrative of their own or, more...
View ArticleIf Women Still Make Less Than Men, It's On Purpose
Today is "Equal Pay Day:" the 50th anniversary of the passage of the "Equal Pay Act" which, according to John F. Kennedy and most of his successors, was supposed to be the moment when society finally...
View ArticleRundown: What We Know About the IRS Targeting Scandal
Beginning in 2010, several different IRS offices – including those in Cincinnati, Ohio; El Monte, California; Laguna Niguel, California; and Washington D.C. systematically discriminated against...
View Article“100% Security”: Obama’s Cradle-to-Grave Surveillance
At a congressional hearing in March, Senator Ron Wyden asked the question that a leaked FISC order answered weeks ago. “Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions...
View ArticleMaximum Liberty or Temporary Security? Justin Amash and the NSA Amendment.
Yesterday afternoon a bold, potentially groundbreaking amendment to a defense appropriations bill was narrowly defeated. The amendment sponsored by Representative Justin Amash sought to curtail the...
View ArticleDusting Off the Third Amendment: A Creative Response to Domestic Spying
Fourth Amendment arguments against the NSA surveillance programs are plentiful these days. The general perception by the public, and numerous government officials, is that warrantless surveillance and...
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FreedomWorks Report: Major Obamacare Revisions & Delays
It has been 3 years since the Patient Protection and AffordableCare Act was pushed through Congress by Democrats and signedinto law by President Barack Obama. Yet despite the re-electionof President...
View ArticleProtect Citizen Journalists
Citizen journalists are under attack by Chuck Schumer, Lindsey Graham, and other members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The dynamic duo of progressivism has attached an amendment to Senate Bill...
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The Republican Revolution: A Future For Liberty and Youth
It's no secret that former Texas Congressman Ron Paul, has had a tremendous influence on young Americans. His message of fiscal responsibility and promotion of civil liberties is loud a clear. The...
View ArticleObamacare Website is a Disaster, Hides True Costs
If you want to know how successful a government program is, there are three things you could consider: the theory behind the program, how the administration implements it, and what the program actually...
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