Senate Democrat Says the National Debt Is Not a Threat
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) does not believe the United States’ $19.2 trillion national debt is a national security threat. He made the comments during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee…
Barack Obama threatens a government shutdown if Congress doesn’t end the budget caps
President Barack Obama drew a line in the sand on budget caps during his weekly address to the country. Citing the latest employment report to argue that the economy has…
Congress doesn’t need a commission to tell lawmakers that it’s time for justice reform
There is significant transpartisan movement in the United States Senate to bring long overdue reforms to the justice system. A number of bills have already been introduced, including measures that…
The White House will call for an end to the sequester in its FY 2016 budget
The White House is offering more details about President Barack Obama’s FY 2016 budget proposal in advance of its formal release on Monday. Politico is reporting that the administration…
Divided government has kept budget deficits in check, but a spending explosion is on the horizon
The Congressional Budget Office has released its annual budget outlook for the next decade, showing that the budget deficit will continue to fall in the current fiscal year, as…
ObamaCare spending will balloon to nearly $2 trillion over the next decade
One of the ways the Obama administration managed to get ObamaCare through Congress was by keeping the cost of the law under $1 trillion. This was accomplished through various…
Barack Obama is in complete denial about the United States’ ominous fiscal path
In addition to proposing an onslaught of spending increases and tax hikes in his sixth State of the Union address, President Barack Obama will, according to The New…
No, John Boehner is not “the most anti-establishment Speaker” in history
Just two days after facing an historic uprising within the ranks of his own House Republican Conference, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) defended his four-year record as the lower chamber’s presiding…
No, Barack Obama, budget deficits aren’t “manageable” by any stretch of the imagination
Looking to stake some ground just weeks before the mid-term election, President Barack Obama, in a speech last week at Northwestern University, dismissed concerns about budget deficits, claiming that ObamaCare…
2013 Year In Review
Every year since college, my best friend Dan and I have submitted our best observations on a wide range of topics that reflect on the year that has just expired.