[Murkowski, along with 92 other Senators, voted last week to repeal the military’s prohibition of soldiers’ sex with animals] The dust is finally starting to clear over the rubble of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal, and our military is beginning to see what’s on the horizon: a campaign to radicalize the country from the […]
Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., will be remembered in retirement as a Democratic Gingrich but with only half Newt’s charm. The brainy and insufferably arrogant former chairman and current ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee is best known for his blustery, partisan, and plain wrong insistence for years before the collapse of the housing […]
Peter Schweizer’s book, Throw Them All Out, has been a topic of much discussion in Washington, in no small part because of shocking details about how congressmen trade stock based on their private knowledge of how legislation will affect markets. Amazingly, this is completely legal. As I put it in an editorial in the current […]
“You Got this Occupy Wall Street crowd that wants to have a communist revolution,” says investment guru and outspoken defender of free enterprise Peter Schiff, “but hopefully we can have more of a free-market…second American revolution and understand all the pain we’re about to endure is because of government. It’s not because of capitalism.” Schiff […]
The “Father of the Constitution,” James Madison, wrote, “If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” Regrettably, tyranny and oppression have already arrived in America in certain sections of the Patriot Act, the TSA’s invasive procedures at our airports and presidential-ordered assassinations of U.S. […]
Republican candidate for president Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) appeared on CNBC to discuss the Federal Reserve and a worldwide quantitative easing, the 2012 field and an independent run for office. “That doesn’t mean a whole lot. That’s what they’re in the business of doing, and that is to inflate the currency to tide people over […]
Talk about strange bedfellows! Rand Paul, Kentucky’s Republican Junior Senator, found himself teamed up yesterday with Senate left-wing Democrats and the ACLU, in a failed attempt to insert an amendment into the massive National Defense Authorization Act, which would have limited the federal government’s power to enforce martial law against American civilians. Sixteen Democrats and […]
The House Ethics Committee announced on Monday that it will take another 45 days to determine whether to launch full-scale investigations into allegations against Reps. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) and Don Young (R-Alaska). Reps. Jo Bonner (R-Ala.) and Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.), the chairman and the ranking member of the Ethics Committee, made the statement in response […]
Standard and Poor’s downgraded the credit ratings of dozens of banks Tuesday, after applying new criteria to the world’s 37 largest financial institutions. Among those to suffer a ratings cut: Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs (GS, Fortune 500), Morgan Stanley (MS, Fortune 500), Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase (JPM, Fortune 500). Ratings of Bank […]
Opposites in many ways, the Tea Party movement and Occupy Wall Street have this in common: Both have channeled the public’s not always well-informed anger over the behavior of banks and government during the financial crisis. As it turns out, they didn’t know the half of it, and neither did the rest of us, including […]