As Research Director and Senior Policy Adviser to Joe Miller for US Senate, I had a front-row seat for an extraordinary piece of Alaska history. Central to the drama of one of the most hotly contested campaigns in recent memory was an incident that happened more than two years before the campaign even commenced. Joe […]
By Peter Schroeder (Hill.com): Citing an “extraordinary reversal of fortune,” Moody’s Analytics on Monday significantly lowered its hopes for the nation’s economy through 2011, nearly halving its expectations for growth over the next six months. Recent drama on the economic front, headlined by the debt-limit drama that led to an unprecedented downgrade of the nation’s […]
By David Stringer and Shawn Pogatchnik (OneNewsNow): Britain must confront a culture of laziness, irresponsibility and selfishness that fueled four days of riots which left five people dead, thousands facing criminal charges and hundreds of millions in damages, Prime Minister David Cameron acknowledged Monday. As rival political leaders staked out their response to England’s unrest, Cameron […]
The GOP has to get it right in 2012. It will either return to its platform of small government, traditional values, and national sovereignty, or its conservative base will abandon it. The stakes are far too high for conservatives to support the candidacy of another business-as-usual, ruling class member. Not only are we faced with […]
By Randy DeSoto (Red County): Two speeches that Ronald Reagan gave, one when announcing his Presidential candidacy in November of 1979 and another during his re-election campaign in 1984, seem particularly poignant for the times of economic turbulence that we’re passing through right now. In the late 70’s President Jimmy Carter stated in the obvious […]
By Jonathan Tobin (Commentary Magazine): The Obama administration renewed its attack on Jewish Jerusalem today by formally condemning the construction of apartments in part of the city. The approval last week of a housing project in the Har Homa neighborhood of the city was blasted by the State Department as being contrary to the peace […]
This is a second installment in a series of commentaries that focus on evidence pointing to criminal fishing activity by an ex-aide to Senator Lisa Murkowski. In the first commentary, I pointed to a FOIA request that resulted in the release of a 42 page NOAA document that showed former Murkowski aide Arne Fuglvog was […]
Something Smells Fishy With Sen. Murkowski, Sen. Snowe and Rep. Frank By Tom Lamb (Red County): Just as mysterious as the orange goo that washed up on the shores of northwest Alaska, a mystery that surrounds an ex-aide to our Senator Lisa Murkowski by the name of Arne Fuglvog is unfolding. Last week, The Anchorage […]
The U.S. labor force is shrinking, as more Americans are giving up hope By Chris Isidore (CNNMoney): Last month, only 58.1% of Americans age 16 and over were employed, a significant drop from before the recession and the lowest since 1983. That’s especially worrisome to economists, who say a steady increase in those dropping out […]
By Gabriella Schwarz (CNN): President Barack Obama’s chief re-election strategist on Sunday blamed Standard & Poor’s downgrade of the United States’ credit rating on tea party conservatives who made raising the federal debt ceiling a political issue. “This is essentially a tea party downgrade,” David Axelrod told the CBS program “Face the Nation.” “The tea […]