By Rick Manning — Congressional Republicans have made headline after headline deriding the Obama Administration’s Solyndra deal as crony capitalism gone awry. On Wednesday, May 9, these same Republicans face a moment of truth when they will have to decide if they truly are against crony capitalism or if they are only against Obama’s morphed version of venture socialism. The [...]

By Rick Manning — Astonishingly, the unemployment rate dropped again in April even though there are 169,000 fewer Americans employed than in March.   Equally incredibly, in spite of there being more than 8 million more people in the working age population, 319,000 fewer Americans have jobs today than when Obama took office. To make matters worse, 522,000 Americans dropped out [...]

By Robert Romano — If the most recent polls are any indication, Richard Mourdock is likely to be the Republican Party nominee in Nov. for the U.S. Senate seat in Indiana. In a head-to-head matchup with long-serving Sen. Richard Lugar, Mourdock, the state’s treasurer, has a ten point edge, leading 48 percent to 38 percent among likely Republican primary voters. [...]

By Bill Wilson — Obama’s idea of a recovery is when 522,000 Americans give up on getting a job, and drop out.  His claim that the unemployment rate has ‘dropped’ to 8.1 percent is either a delusion or a purposeful manipulation.  The truth is that there were 169,000 fewer Americans employed in April than in the previous month.  The truth [...]

By Bill Wilson — The U.S. Treasury on May 2 postponed a decision on whether to issue a new type of debt that would allow interest rates to float with market conditions. These would be like an adjustable rate mortgage, except for sovereign debt, wherein interest rates would adjust over time instead of being at a fixed rate. For now, [...]

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By Bill Wilson — On May 1, 2012, the Occupy movement once again took to the streets, this time to celebrate International Workers’ Day, a leftist, invented holiday that was originally founded to promote Marxist and labor movement ideology. Eventually, it even became a national holiday of the then-Soviet Union to promote the workers’ revolution. The ostensible idea behind the [...]

By Rebekah Rast — You give them an inch and they’ll just keep fighting for more inches, says Steve Cheyne, a local Klamath River farmer and board member of the Bucket Brigade. He is referring to the many environmentalists and government agencies pushing for restoration of the Klamath River in Oregon and also for the removal of four dams within [...]

The EPA official, Al Armendariz, who said he would “crucify” oil and gas companies to send a message, has resigned. According to the Washington Times: Embattled Environmental Protection Agency official Al Armendariz, under fire for 2010 comments bragging that he would “crucify” oil and gas companies in order to send a message to the industry, has resigned. “While I feel [...]

UPDATE: We are hearing that @ChrisLoesch got his Twitter account restored. We are still waiting to hear if Twitter has done anything to prevent prog Twitter users from flagging any account they disagree with as spam. Last night, the left-wing Twitter censors came out in force. Just like last week when our own Free Market America project was suspended from [...]