History shows that when Congress gets more revenue, the pols spend it. Nov 21, 2010 WSJ By STEPHEN MOORE And RICHARD VEDDER The draft recommendations of the president’s commission on deficit reduction call for closing popular tax deductions, higher gas taxes and other revenue raisers to drive tax collections up to 21% of GDP from [...]

The state and city fiscal mess is getting worse, yet the Obama administration wants Congress to make new taxpayer-subsidized bonds permanent. Nov 22, 2010 WSJ By STEVEN MALANGA In a Rasmussen poll taken before the midterm election, half of the respondents said that members of Congress who supported the 2009 federal stimulus didn’t deserve to [...]

Republicans should take advantage of their electoral opportunity to reduce government. Nov 20, 2010 WSJ By PETE DUPONT At the end of 2007 America began its economic decline. It started in the Bush administration, continued in the Obama administration, and is likely to be with us many months or even years longer. The federal deficit [...]

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Nov 22, 2010 By Star Parker Charlie Rangel, convicted of eleven ethics violations – the most ever found against any member of Congress – was resoundingly re-elected, getting 80% of his district’s vote. After 40 years representing these folks, you can’t conclude he was an unknown commodity. Granted, the conviction occurred after the election, but [...]

Nov 22, 2010 By Joseph C. Phillips We, the American public, hold it as an article of faith that those responsible for devising and implementing public policy have our best interests at heart. Our best minds are hard at work, striving to make the world a better place. Our elected officials are dedicated to protecting [...]

By Michael Barone (Archive) · Monday, November 22, 2010 Is there any chance we can come to grips with our short-term and long-term fiscal problems — the huge current federal budget deficit and the huge looming increases in entitlement spending? Maybe so. Or at least the chances seem a little better after the release of [...]

By Roy Exum (Archive) · Monday, November 22, 2010 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a government entity presumably that works for the betterment of all of us, has now stooped to the very slime and filth it is charged with protecting us against. Earlier last week it was announced the government — our government [...]

By Burt Prelutsky (Archive) · Monday, November 22, 2010 I continue to receive condolences from friends around the country. They’re worried about how I’m holding up after the mid-term elections in my home state. While they’ve been celebrating the results in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Florida and so many other places, they realize that what took [...]

Nov 22, 2010 By Russ Vaughn It’s rather obvious the Obama Administration and the Reid/Pelosi congress learned nothing from cramming a massive health care bill down the throats of American voters. They get their butts handed to them in the mid-term elections by an electorate that clearly does not subscribe to the policy of, “We [...]