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Last light: Final phaseout of incandescent bulbs coming Jan. 1

12/13/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
It’s lights out for the light bulb. On Jan. 1 it will become illegal to manufacture or import traditional 60-watt and 40-watt incandescent bulbs, thanks to a 2007 bill that set strict minimum efficiency standards – and effectively outlawed the…

The Failure Of ObamaCare And What It Means For The Democratic Party

11/13/2013 Published on Forbes.com
New internal government data revealed in the Wall Street Journal yesterday shows that the Obama administration hasn’t just fallen short of their goal to enroll 500,000 Americans in private plans in October, they’re not even in the ballpark. Fewer than…

What Christie, McAuliffe victories mean for America

11/05/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
Tuesday’s election results underscore the degree to which American politics has been stood on its head. As columnist Ramesh Ponnuru argues in the New York Post, it is logical to expect that in more conservative Virginia Lt. Governor Ken Cuccinelli…

You call this a deal? Congress, Obama set to kick the can … again

10/15/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
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…

What Do We Do Now? The Way Forward For The President, Congress And America

10/03/2013 Published on Forbes.com
Things look very different than 2011. Indeed, the conflict over raising the debt ceiling strikes a familiar note. And the power players are the same, too. But while President Obama talked to House Speaker Boehner almost every day during the…

Government Shutdown Courtesy Of The Republicans

09/30/2013 Published on Forbes.com
It wasn’t supposed to go this way. The Republicans’ latest maneuver appears to be a complete failure – we are headed for a government shutdown, and fast. It appears that the Republicans, and certainly Senator Ted Cruz, have become the…

Republicans dealing Obama the winning hand in government shutdown fight

Published on Foxnews.com
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…

Progressives must hold Obama accountable for NSA phone spying

06/07/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
FILE- In this Dec. 8, 2005, file photo, a man walks out the Verizon’s new corporate headquarters(AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh, File) (AP2005) Friday, the New York Times published an editorial about the recent revelation that our federal government is collecting broad…

The Compromising Way Forward

04/02/2013 Published on Forbes.com
In the past few weeks, Democrats and Republicans have offered up competing budget proposals—the Democrats in the Senate, the Republicans in the House—to address the nation’s mounting fiscal challenges. The two budgets are roughly $1 trillion apart on taxes and…

Marriage equality, the Supreme Court and the Chief Justice’s cousin

03/26/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
Chief Justice John Roberts. (AP) Today, the Supreme Court considered a case about whether voters in a state can pass a law that arguably violates the Constitution of the United States of America. ; The case about to decide the…