If I wanted America to Fail

By Ryan Houck.
You can find the transcript for this video at Free Market America

If I wanted America to fail …
I’d make it easier to stop commerce than start it – easier to kill jobs than create them – more fashionable to resent success than to seek it.

History of the Great Depression

The President and the Supreme Court

By Glen Meakem
After a majority of the Supreme Court Justices expressed skepticism regarding the Administration’s defense of President Obama’s healthcare law during hearings two weeks ago, the President last week attacked the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.  Among other things, the President had the audacity to say, “Ultimately, I’m confident that the Supreme Court will [...]

White House Press Secretary Answers Questions About Obama’s Budget

Jay Carney refuses to explain why a Democrat controlled Senate has not passed a budget (either their own version or President Obama’s version) in 1,070 days. Bret Baier reminds Carney that Democrats have 53 Democrat votes and only need 51 to pass a budget. He also reminds Carney that President Obama’s budget was rejected by [...]

House GOP is Leading!

Democrat political strategists as well as many Democrat politicians are overjoyed with Republican Congressman Paul Ryan’s decision to release another budget proposal this year.  Like his proposal last year, this budget makes some very modest cuts to current government spending ($4 trillion in baseline spending over 10 years), modest pro-growth tax reforms (lowers rates and [...]

Senior Obama Advisor Believes Unemployment is Good for the Economy

Senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett told an audience at North Carolina Central University on Monday, “People who receive that unemployment check go out and spend it and help stimulate the economy, so that’s healthy…”

Does the Obama administration then consider a rising unemployment rate a good thing?
Do you want a balanced perspective on Natural Gas [...]

Obama’s Dividend Assault

With tax increases like these tucked into President Obama’s budget, how can anyone believe it is a serious proposal?  No wonder Democrats don’t want to bring it up for a vote in Congress.
President Obama’s 2013 budget is the gift that keeps on giving—to government. One buried surprise is his proposal to triple the tax [...]

The State of the Union: An Inside Report

by Dr. Mark Hendrickson
as posted at The Center for Vision and Values

On Tuesday evening, I had the honor of attending the State of the Union address as the guest of Congressman Mike Kelly (PA-03). Here are my impressions in abbreviated form:
The address seemed more like a rewrite of previous speeches than [...]

1,000 Days without a Budget

From the Heritage Foundation

Defending Economic Liberty


AP/ Charles Dharapak
On my radio program this past weekend, I talked about the anti-capitalist attacks launched by GOP Presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry against Mitt Romney.  We have all come to expect these kinds of anti-liberty statements from President Obama and his cronies, but the attacks from Gingrich and Perry demonstrate that these [...]