The NLRB will now require union posters. Aug 31, 2011 WSJ Nothing like the end of a week in August with a hurricane on the way to bury another political favor for unions. When not telling U.S. companies where they are allowed to locate their operations, the National Labor Relations Board will now require them [...]

A Fannie Mae for ‘infrastructure.’ Aug 31, 2011 WSJ Here’s a novel idea: Have Congress create a “bank” that could borrow huge sums with only a small federal outlay and would be independent of any political interference. If you believe in this miracle, you probably thought Fannie Mae was a private company that wouldn’t cost [...]

The Obama administration repeats mistakes of the past by intimidating banks into lending to minority borrowers at below-market rates in the name of combatting discrimination. Aug 31, 2011 WSJ By MARY KISSEL Talk about not learning from past mistakes: A government department is again intimidating banks into lending to minority borrowers at below-market rates, all [...]

Democrats inside and outside the White House are looking for a comeback strategy for President Obama, and their model is Ronald Reagan. Aug 30, 2011 WSJ By STEPHEN MOORE Democrats inside and outside the White House are looking for a comeback strategy for President Obama, and their model is Ronald Reagan. The Gipper’s approval ratings [...]

Aug 31, 2011 AP President Barack Obama will make a push for more transportation spending on Wednesday. The White House says Obama will urge Congress to pass a federal highway bill that he says will protect about 1 million jobs. At issue is the renewal of a transportation spending bill that expires Sept. 30. The [...]

Aug 31, 2011 John Ransom Another guy with nice hair and a good tan is working on the Obama job plan. He’ll be a great addition at Martha’s Vineyard. This ought to work out as well as Geithner doing his own taxes.   This week, Obama announced his new econ czar would be Alan Krueger, [...]

By Tony Blankley (Archive) · Wednesday, August 31, 2011 President Obama’s post-Labor Day “jobs” speech will be his last chance to launch an economic policy with any chance of manifesting its effect — both economic and political — before the November 2012 elections. He has three options. In order of descending likelihood they are: a [...]

By Paul Greenberg (Archive) · Wednesday, August 31, 2011 Glenn Beck — great explainer, talker extraordinaire, and showman in general — now has left Fox News. When the midway’s star attraction becomes just another bore, it’s time to dim the lights and tiptoe out. Much of the audience dozed off some time ago. So the [...]

By Terence Jeffrey (Archive) · Wednesday, August 31, 2011 Will Barack Obama become the first president in the post-World War II era during whose term real gross domestic product never grew in any quarter at an annual rate greater than 4 percent? With less than optimistic recent forecasts from the Federal Reserve System’s Federal Open [...]

By Michelle Malkin (Archive) · Wednesday, August 31, 2011 There are now enough Operation Fast and Furious officials playing hide-and-seek in the Obama administration to fill a “rubber room.” That’s the nickname for taxpayer-subsidized holding pens, such as the ones in the New York City public schools, where crooked employees are separated from the system [...]