Barack Obama’s Unwelcome Jubilee Present to Britain
Barack Obama was all smiles in his carefully scripted message of congratulation to Queen Elizabeth II on her Diamond Jubilee. But at the same time as he recorded… Read More
Solar Company Hired Biden Staffer to Help Secure $1.6 Billion Federal Loan
Internal emails show that BrightSource Energy, which received the largest federal loan for a solar energy project under President Obama’s stimulus package, leveraged its considerable… Read More
D-Day: Let Us Pray
When we look back across history, it’s all too easy to assume that because something happened, it had to happen exactly the way it did…. Read More
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Next Stop for Proposition 8: U.S. Supreme Court
It was no surprise today that the most liberal (and most-overturned) federal appeals court in the nation, the Ninth Circuit, refused a request for a… Read More
Free Market Reforms Rescue Maine from Obamacare-Like Problems
Maine’s new market-based health care reform is bringing insurance premiums down by as much as 60 percent in the individual market. Elected in 2010, Governor… Read More
Company Lobbies for More Federal Funds While Over-billing Amtrak
A company that has lobbied for greater federal transportation funding may have overcharged the federal government by millions for a construction contract, according to a… Read More
Reid Is Bouncing an Important Check
It seems odd to note this in an election year, but it’s important nonetheless: The Founding Fathers feared unbridled, direct democracy. The Senate is supposed… Read More
More Than 40 Percent of Americans Are on Some Government Program
How many Americans depend on a government program for a basic (or not so basic) need? According to recently released Census Bureau data and Heritage… Read More
Armour v. Indianapolis: “Money Down the Sewer”
Not many cases involving the financing of municipal sewer construction projects are likely to raise issues that might interest the Supreme Court (or anyone else… Read More
Popcorn and Bullets
ABC’s Jake Tapper recently ran Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to the ground on the issue of the automatic defense cuts that will impact on… Read More
