Today the Senate votes on the S. 2848, the Water Resources Development Act (WARDA) of 2016.These bill, which reauthorizes the Corps of Engineers projects, is full of wasteful spending and projects funded based on the political influence of the […]
The House is in Monday though Thursday this week.
Among the legislation the House will consider is HR 5620, the VA Accountability First and Appeals Modernization Act of 2016. This act is designed to make it easier to fire Veterans […]
In her recent address at the Jackson Hole monetary policy conference, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen suggested that the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates by the end of the year. Markets reacted favorably to Yellen’s suggested rate […]
Americans can take comfort in the fact that Congress is not letting intensification issues like the skyrocketing national debt, the lack of economic growth, or the numerous international crisis caused by our hyper-interventionist foreign policy […]
I’ll take jobs…
Apple CEO Tom Cook became my new hero when, in response to the European Commission’s ruling that Apple “owes” Ireland almost $15 billion in taxes, he said:
You can have taxes or you can have jobs, but Apple is in no mood […]
Congress is back…
The House of Representatives comes back from its long August recess district work period on Tuesday.
Among the legislation the House will consider is the Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act (HR 5083). This act stops the […]
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s recent speech on immigration really missed the point. I understand Trump’s frustration over the US government’s inability to control the US borders and keep out those who would come to this […]
For years, Federal bureaucrats have manipulated the Consumer Price Index in order to hide the true rate of inflation. Fortunately, for those looking for a measure of inflation that cannot be manipulated , Charles Hugh Smith of the Of Two […]
This month represents 45 years since President Richard Nixon closed the “gold window” thus severing the last link between the US Dollar and gold. The results have 45 years of economic instability, declining living standards for the lower class, a […]
Campaign for Liberty has joined a coalition letter in support of HR 3880, legislation clarifying that the Clean Air Act does not give the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) authority to regulate “greenhouse gases.” The EPA’s greenhouse gas […]
Obamacare’s individual health care mandate may be the most known federal health care mandate, but it is far from the only one. For example, a little-known Clinton-era regulation reacquires senior citizens to enroll in Medicare as a condition of […]
The decision of several major insurance companies to cut their losses and withdraw from the Obamacare exchanges, combined with the failure of 70 percent of Obamacare’s health insurance “co-ops, ” will leave one in six Obamacare enrollees with […]
“War is about economics”– That observation made in the opening montage of War Dogs. As the quotes suggests, despite what you may think from the title, this is not a war picture.
The War Dogs of this movie are arms dealers– […]
Every politician, not mater their party label or ideology promises to promote economic growth. Even many constitutional conservatives and libertarians say that the reason to support tax cuts, deregulation, and repealing economically destructive […]
Every politician, not mater their party label or ideology promises to promote economic growth. Even many constitutional conservatives and libertarians say that the reason to support tax cuts, deregulation, and repealing economically destructive […]