By Robert Romano Inside of a week, Russia has convinced Facebook to ban a page calling for support of Alexei Navalny, a notable critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, inside of Russia. And the North Korean government in a sophisticated, embarrassing hack of Sony Pictures, managed to get the production company to cancel release of The Interview, a comedy that […]

By Robert Romano The Senate Budget Committee Republicans tweeted out an interesting piece from the New York Times’ Claire Cain Miller, which in part notes a dramatic drop in labor force participation in the U.S. economy. It quoted a key portion of the piece: “More than 16 percent of men between the ages of 25 and 54 are not working, […]

By Marita Noon Perhaps when Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel was a child, she attended a party and was the only one who came without a present, or she was wearing inappropriate attire—and the embarrassment she felt haunts her to this day. That’s how psychodynamic psychology (Freud) might explain her December 3 decision to spend more money on Germany’s failing energy […]

By Robert Romano A little more than six years ago, Congress took up legislation that would have bailed out then-troubled automakers GM and Chrysler with $14 billion of taxpayer-funded loans. The bill passed easily in the House, but, as it turned out, ran into a brick wall in the Senate. It would fail to achieve cloture with 60 votes, going […]

By William Warren

By Rick Manning Anonymous and some not so anonymous Republican Senators attempted to bury their fellow Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee for having the audacity to force Senate floor votes on the constitutionality of President Obama’s executive amnesty. Due to outgoing Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s intransigence, the Senate was kept in session on Saturday for the […]

  By Robert Romano So far, the story that has been written on the dramatic drop in the price of oil has been that of an increase of supply. This part is true, based on data compiled by the Energy Information Agency. Worldwide production of oil is in fact up year over year as of August, from 89.9 million barrels […]

By Robert Romano “[T]he House will work to keep the government open while keeping our leverage, so that when we have reinforcements in the Senate, we’re in the strongest position to take additional actions to fight the President’s unilateral actions.” That was House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) on December 4, outlining his conference’s two-part strategy for combating President Barack […]

By A.F. Branco

By Robert Romano “[R]ecent trade deals, like the World Trade Organization trade deal, had no labor or environmental standards.” That was the AFL-CIO, objecting to fast track trade authority for the Obama administration to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership and other trade agreements expected to come up in Congress next year. Labor groups object to free trade agreements because other nations […]