Democrats all but eliminate filibuster, replace it with the law of the jungle
By Robert Romano Standing Rule XXII of the Senate clearly states that “to amend the Senate rules… the necessary affirmative vote shall be two-thirds of the Senators present and voting,” but none of...
View ArticleHarry Reid kills minority rights in Senate
By Rick Manning A version of this article appeared in The Hill on 11/21/2013 I hope packing the courts with radical nominees is worth it for the Democrats, because they will be in the minority in the...
View ArticleThe 17th Amendment: 100 years later
By Tom Toth Since its original design, the United States Senate has undergone two integrally related transformations in design and purpose. In 1913, states voted away their federal legislative voice by...
View ArticlePoland recognizes the real global warming agenda
By David Rothbard A cabal of climate change alarmists landed in Warsaw, Poland, last weekend, to hammer out terms and rally support for a new binding global agreement to “save the planet” from...
View ArticleThe unwinding of America
By Rick Manning This past week our nation celebrated the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s delivery of the Gettysburg Address. Once a staple in schools, where kids learned the words by heart and...
View ArticleCourts must stop Obamacare’s ‘taxation without representation’
By Nathan Mehrens President Obama’s socialized medicine law has a big problem on its hands — something much more serious than a botched website or a broken political promise. And while some say it’s...
View ArticleFed’s $1 trillion a year subsidy to banks to continue under Yellen’s watch
By Robert Romano With the filibuster against most presidential nominees now eliminated — well, sort of, Senate Democrats did not actually amend the rules, they just voted to pretend they don’t exist —...
View ArticleThe UN global warming hoax is slowly dying
By Alan Caruba In 2007 Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner was interviewed on the subject of sea levels. He is the head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics Department at Stockholm University in Sweden. He is past...
View ArticleBeyond whimper, little Republican response to filibuster demise
By Robert Romano Despite the brazen power grab by Senate Democrats led by Majority Leader Harry Reid to blatantly ignore Senate rules to overcome cloture on most presidential nominees, there has been...
View ArticleBlack Friday: Lessons from Walmart
By Rick Manning Retailers know that the Friday after Thanksgiving has been the traditional bellwether for whether the year is going to be profitable. So do labor unions and their organizers, which...
View ArticleThe case against progress
By Marta H. Mossburg Human moral progress is not a given, as progressives would like Americans to believe. Take the ancient punishment of stoning, for example. A report in The Wall Street Journal...
View ArticleObama expands war on political speech
By Robert Romano There is one mystery that has perplexed political observers after Senate Democrats decided to violate Senate rules allowing the minority party to block presidential appointments. And...
View ArticleNo way out of Fed’s QE trap
By Robert Romano It took a little while, but the selloff of U.S. treasuries abroad has ceased for now in August and September — a record $127.4 billion was sold between March and July. It had marked...
View ArticleDestroying entry level jobs and teen opportunity
By Rick Manning Fast food restaurants will get the joy of having labor unions stage protests demanding an increase in their worker’s wages and more than doubling the overall federal minimum wage this...
View ArticleDid the Pope attack ‘unfettered capitalism’?
By Robert Romano Did Pope Francis really lay a broadside into what he called “unfettered capitalism”? That is certainly what headline writers the world over would have you believe. Well, at least the...
View ArticleSubsidizing green energy is like supporting operator-assisted telephones with...
By Marita Noon The whole idea of Green energy — renewable resources — grew out of an energy reality that was much different from today’s. It was in the 1970s, following the OPEC Oil Embargo that solar...
View ArticleCartoon: The government Solution
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View ArticleObama’s inequality hypocrisy
Photo: WhiteHouse.gov By Tom Toth Directing attention to the “defining issue of our time,” Barack Obama recently warned the American people of the “fundamental threat to the American dream, our way of...
View ArticleWhy fast food workers should really protest
By David Bozeman Fast food workers, prodded on by a top down effort by union organizers, yesterday protested in many locations demanding a minimum wage of at least $15 an hour and, of course, union...
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