Republicans force Harry Reid to vote on a plan By Emily Miller The Washington Times Tuesday, May 15, 2012 Sen. Harry Reid gave up his budgeting responsibilities once President Obama was elected. For the fourth straight year, the Senate majority leader hasn’t bothered with a spending plan, enabling a $5 trillion spree at 1600 Pennsylvania [...]

By Chuck DeVore Published May 15, 2012 FoxNews.com Over the weekend California Governor Jerry Brown announced the grim news that the Golden State’s budget deficit had almost doubled to $16 billion – more than 17 percent of the new budget year’s $92.6 billion spending plan. Immediately, protesters descended on the state Capitol to demand more [...]

Published May 16, 2012 FoxNews.com A Catholic university in Ohio said Tuesday it is being forced to end a student health insurance program over the Obama administration’s contraception mandate and costs associated with other provisions of the health care overhaul. Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, said it has so far excluded contraceptive services and products [...]

By Jose Pagliery @CNNMoney May 16, 2012: 5:26 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — It’s a question that could determine if President Obama gets to serve another term: Are you better off than you were four years ago? CNNMoney put the question to six small business owners — Democrats, Republicans and independents. across the political [...]

Congress must make plain that American taxpayers will not protect states from the consequences of their policies. May 14, 2012 – WSJ By KEVIN BRADY and JIM DEMINT Right now, the world is wondering if European leaders have the political will to save their economies from fiscal collapse. Defaulting on their debts would trigger a [...]

May 15, 2012 – WSJ By DAMIAN PALETTA WASHINGTON—House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) will demand Tuesday that any increase in the government’s borrowing limit be accompanied by spending cuts and other budget changes of greater size, according to excerpts of his prepared remarks. His comments, to be delivered in the afternoon at a Washington [...]

May 14, 2012 – Guy Benson The Romney campaign team ate their Wheaties this morning, it seems.  They’ve undertaken a two-pronged approach to combating Team Obama’s desperate and factually inaccurate ad about Mitt Romney’s private sector experience, which blames the former CEO for job losses that occurred years after he’d left Bain Capital.  First, they’re [...]

May 15, 2012 – Chuck Norris With Mother’s Day right at our back, I want to address one of the most extreme overreaches by the federal government into American homes that I’ve seen in a long time. Then I want to call on my own 91-year-old mother, who was raised in rural Oklahoma and worked [...]

May 15, 2012 – John Ransom Barack Obama went on the business talk show The View to talk about how banks need more stringent regulations on trading activities in light of trading losses at JP Morgan. Reports Reuters: “JPMorgan is one of the best managed banks there is. Jamie Dimon, the head of it, is [...]

May 5, 2012 – John Hawkins There’s a reason gun sales are through the roof, gold advertisements are everywhere, products like survival seeds have started to creep into the edges of our consciousness, and Doomsday Preppers now runs on National Geographic. It’s the same reason people have started asking about ways to hedge their money [...]