CPAC Panel on the Export-Import Bank
Last weekend, the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) met in Washington, DC to address the most important issues in America. Everybody who attended was well aware that free markets…
Expect crony health insurers to lobby Congress to extend the costly Medicaid payment increase
ObamaCare’s individual mandate and bailouts aren’t enough for the health insurance industry. The looming expiration of the two-year Medicaid payment increase has, once again, put health insurers on the…
Export-Import Bank caught doctoring data to benefit big business cronies
When the Export-Import Bank as well as its friends on Capitol Hill and elsewhere talk about how the billions it doles out in taxpayer-backed loans benefits small businesses, they really…
Transparency fail: U.S. Department of Agriculture is running interference for Kay Hagan
The Obama administration is the most open and transparent administration in history…..said no serious person, EVER. Though the line is still repeated ad nauseam by White House and administration officials,…
Here’s how Harry Reid and his crony pals in the Senate could cause a $15 billion tax hike
Inaction in the Senate on the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act (H.R. 3086) could cost Americans nearly $15 billion each year, according to a new study from the American…
Cronyism: Kay Hagan’s husband benefited from the stimulus bill she voted for
Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) had been in office for less than two months when she, in February 2009, cast the deciding vote for President Obama’s wasteful $830 billion…
Cronyism, Corporatism, and Cancellations: The Three Cs of ObamaCare’s Unintended Consequences
Question: What do you get when you pass a law consisting of thousands of pages of regulations too numerous and complex to be understood by anyone? Answer: Unintended consequences. A…
Climate Hubs Continue Agricultural Cronyism
Agricultural protectionism is nothing new. In 1892, President Grover Cleveland took a principled stand for limited government by vetoing a bill to bail out farmers from a crop-destroying drought. This…
All Aboard… for Cronyism!
People often criticize capitalism as giving too much power to big business, and use this concern as a justification for more government intervention in the economy. But the kinds of…
Not Shocking: NBC Totally In The Tank For Obamacare
On September 27, NBC News revealed what all 26 viewers of MSNBC already knew: the entire corporate media behemoth is in full on water carrying mode for…