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Save US jobs — level playing field between brick-and-mortar stores and online retailers
The old adage, if something’s too good to be true, it probably is, too often applies to bargain-basement prices for retail goods online. An often ignored loophole in existing sales tax law is giving online retailers an unfair advantage over…
In State Of The Union, Obama Fails To Rise To The Challenge Of The Moment
President Barack Obama delivers the State of Union address before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Larry Downing, Pool)
President Obama took the stage tonight for his annual State of the Union address on shaky…
A Look Ahead To 2014
It’s a new year, but it’s certainly not a new Washington.
As we begin 2014, things are looking as bleak as ever – a particularly bad sign for President Obama as he begins his 6th year in office.
Here is…
EPA power grab? Pols, states claim new water reg could bring feds into your backyard
In this July 7, 2010 file photo, an EPA worker looks at oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill which seeped into a marsh in Waveland, Miss. (Reuters)
A river runs through it — and Uncle Sam isn’t far behind.
That’s…
Please, Mr. President, for the good of the country, let’s delay ObamaCare
Today, President Obama and the Democrats are faced with the opportunity to take a timeout – a timeout from ObamaCare.
I believe that they should delay ObamaCare for six months to a year. America’s health care system isn’t something that…
Why Obama lied about health care
Some people might think Obama’s penchant for lying, repeatedly and blatantly — even when he knows people can check and catch him at it — is a character flaw, but it’s not. It’s ideological, and its roots go back some…
Just How Cash-Strapped is the FHA?
A top House Republican challenged the Obama Administration Monday over the financial health of the Federal Housing Administration a day before a hearing on the agency’s recent $1.7 billion Treasury Department bailout.
Rep. Jeb Hensarling, (R-TX), chairman of the House…
You call this a deal? Congress, Obama set to kick the can … again
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that he was hopeful it would be a “bright day.” Republican leader Mitch McConnell seconded Reid’s optimism, “we’ve had a good day,” he commented on Monday.
Indeed, we are on the precipice of a…
The Rationality Deficit In Washington
“I am happy to talk with him and other Republicans about anything,” President Obama said of Speaker Boehner in his press conference yesterday, “not just issues I think are important but also issues that they think are important. But I…
Republicans dealing Obama the winning hand in government shutdown fight
It seems that President Obama has more allies on the Hill than we thought. But they’re not who you’d expect.
The Republicans and Ted Cruz have become President Obama’s greatest ally. Their latest gambit appears to have failed and there…
