Obama’s Regulations Hurt the People He Promised to Help
Of course campaign promises can’t be trusted – but who would guess that a candidate would actually do the opposite and hurt the people he promised to help? Yet that’s exactly the effect that Obama has had on the working and middle class. Experts say Obama’s aggressive regulatory agenda has left his campaign promise of […]
Half of Obamacare Subsidies May Have to Be Repaid
If you received a subsidy for Obamacare coverage, there’s a 50-50 chance you’ll have to pay some of it back come tax-time./ It doesn’t come as much of a surprise that HealthCare.gov’s estimates may have been inaccurate. “The poorly-written ObamaCare website had to interface with numerous other government and insurance-industry computer systems to calculate subsidies […]
Obama Administration Pushes 1,200 New Regulations before New Year
Well, what did we tell you? Right before Thanksgiving, the White House quietly released its plans for new regulations in 2015. They were hoping no one would notice in the holiday rush. The government has gotten quite good at creating more regulations and “dumping” into the news when no one else is paying attention, so […]
IRS Targeted “Icky” Conservative Groups
It’s not over yet. Not by a long shot. Before the head of the House Oversight Committee Darrell Issa steps down from his position after the New Year, he released a 226-page summary report of the Committee’s investigation of the IRS targeting of conservative groups so far. The interim report is a scathing revelation of […]
With Nothing to Lose, Obama Make Friends with Cuba
He just doesn’t care anymore. Since his party lost control of Congress in the recent elections, it looks like President Obama has decided to reshape the nation on his own. Decisions are coming left and right – immigration, climate change policy, regulating the Internet, and relations with Iran – as he goes it alone. He’s […]
“Elf On The Shelf” Is More Sinister Than You Thought!
You might want to think twice about putting that Elf on the Shelf this year… Laura Pinto, a digital technology professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, says the common Christmas toy is conditioning children to accept the surveillance state. Having a little creature in your room who watches everything you do and […]
Mark Meckler on the Power of Sovereign Citizens
Mark Meckler spoke to state legislators at a meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) right before his friend Mark Levin took the podium. Before introducing Levin, Meckler made a few comments about the irrelevance of our nation’s capital and the critical part that citizens can play in bringing our country back to its […]
Record Taxes and Record Spending
The government’s fiscal year for 2014 is over, and 2015 has already begun. Ah, a clean slate. A chance to resolve to do better this year. Or not. Even though the U.S. Treasury is still collecting a record amount of taxes, in the first two months they ran a deficit of $178.531 billion and spent […]
Nobody’s Happy with the President’s Action on Immigration
President Obama has gotten a lot of negative feedback since he decided to single-handedly “fix” the immigration system. Nearly half of the states are suing his administration, and most Americans think he’s disrupted the Constitutional checks and balances. Arkansas, Michigan, North Dakota and Oklahoma joined 20 other states, led by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, […]
Which Government Agency Is Sworn at the Most?
Ever asked yourself, I wonder which federal agencies get sworn at the most? Maybe not, but I bet you’ll find the answer interesting! Philip Bump did a little research on Regulations.gov about how often two swear words (“one of which starts with F and one of which starts with an S”) appeared in public comments […]