By Bill Wilson — Within hours of his big win in Florida, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney again raised questions about whether he is in touch with the American people, telling reporters, “I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I’ll fix it.” Really? The nation has 13 million unemployed, another [...]

By Bill Wilson — Today’s announcement by the Bureau of Labor Statistics that approximately 240,000 jobs were created by the engine of the U.S. economy, America’s private sector businesses and entrepreneurs.  These job creators are moving forward because they trust that the Republican led House of Representatives will stop Obama’s threatened tax increases that would suck the very money that [...]

By Adam Bitely — You can set your watch by the media stories that always come out in each election bemoaning the amount of money that is spent by campaigns. It’s always the same, no matter the changes in laws that seem to happen rather routinely. There is always too much money being spent and serious reforms to limit that [...]

Big Labor must be in full panic mode. They lost their first Rust Belt state to right-to-work laws yesterday in Indiana. And today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports dismal numbers for the rate of unionization. How dismal? How about the rate is near zero. As Mickey Kaus reports at The Daily Caller, “The most significant number in the recent Bureau [...]

By Rick Manning — On Feb. 1, Indiana became the twenty third state in the nation to pass a right to work law, and the first in the formerly heavily unionized rust belt to do so. After signing the legislation, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels released a statement saying, “The only change will be a positive one.” “Indiana will improve still [...]

By Bill Wilson — Reflecting Europe is nowhere near agreement on how to “rescue” Greece — let alone prop up Italy and Spain — German Chancellor Angela Merkel again delayed finalizing any deal on Jan. 30, telling reporters, “We won’t have a thorough discussion of Greece because the troika is in Greece and we don’t have a result of the [...]

UPDATE: Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels has signed the law, making Indiana the first Rust Belt state with a right-to-work law on the books! This is excellent news! The Indiana Senate has passes right-to-work legislation that could become law today. All it needs is Governor Mitch Daniels’s signature. If this legislation is signed, Indiana will become the first Rust Belt state [...]

Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens’ plan to move the nation’s vehicle fleet to natural gas is creating excitement in the White House. President Obama has already unveiled a tax break for commercial trucks that run on natural gas.  And this is just the beginning of his plan; he hopes that other tax breaks and subsidies will result in natural gas [...]

By Rebecca DiFede — Why does the Senate put up with so much abuse? On Jan. 4, much to the surprise of Congress, President Obama made four supposed “recess” appointments — three to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and one to the Consumer Financial Protection Board (CFPB) — without confirmation by the Senate. The Constitution specifically states that in [...]

By Rebekah Rast — In response to President Obama’s Executive Order “Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts, and the Great Lakes,” which he put into order on July 19, 2010, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson said: “Protecting our oceans, coasts and Great Lakes is critical to the health of our communities, vibrancy of our economy and overall security [...]