That’s not funny! This summer the left is hellbent on proving to the world they have no sense of humor. First, liberals had a conniption… Read More
Anticipating legislative action on a bailout for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the House tomorrow, the White House reaffirmed a veto threat Monday if… Read More
Last week The Hoover Institution’s Peter Robinson posted a chart at The Corner that he said could “only be termed, alas, Republican overspending—that is, the… Read More
Yesterday was Independence Day for Colombia and there were celebrations in Colombian communities across the country including Easley, South Carolina. The Greenville News reports :… Read More
On May 20th Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a statement celebrating House passage of a bill preventing President Bush from adding oil to the Strategic Petroleum… Read More
Venezuela’s leftist leader Hugo Chavez isn’t set to arrive until tomorrow to meet with Russian Prime Minister Vladimr Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev, but two… Read More
Argentina’s leftist protectionist President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner suffered a huge defeat yesterday when the Senate voted 37 to 36 to reject the system of… Read More
New York Times reporter Andre Revkin has a typically banal hatchet job of a post up at his Dot Earth blog trying to undercut Newt… Read More
Yesterday CNN’s Wolf Blitzer interviewed Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), drilling her about her refusal to allow more domestic energy production. From the interview: BLITZER: There… Read More
Earlier this week, the New York Daily News caught the Obama campaign purging their website of any evidence that Obama ever believed the surge in… Read More
Liberals in Congress are desperate to head off the growing consensus for increased domestic oil production. Trying to convince her fellow Democrats not to cave… Read More
Time is running for Congress to pass the Colombia Free Trade Agreement. Reuters reports: Republicans pressured U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday… Read More
The Washington Post makes a great case today for separating the left’s long sought housing bailout bill with the more pressing debate over long term… Read More
The Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that “in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy … the assistance of counsel for his defense.”… Read More
Remember all those stories from 2003 about all the destruction and looting of Iraqi archaeological sites after Saddam Hussein’s government fell? Turns out they were… Read More
No wonder Europe loves Barack Obama: while Obama is promising unilateral withdrawal from NAFTA unless Mexico agrees to new terms to protect U.S. union jobs,… Read More
Whenever conservatives push for developing more domestic energy, liberals respond by saying increased oil production, whether from the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) or Arctic National… Read More
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae own or guarantee a combined $5 trillion worth of mortgages. To put the size of that liability into perspective, remember… Read More
In retrospect, allowing two government sponsored entities to leverage their government granted advantages into a massive duopoly that could destroy the entire American housing market,… Read More
Heritage scholar David John makes the case for splintering Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae in light of their recent financial troubles. From the New York… Read More
The World Trade Organization released a report today titled Trade in a Globalizing World. From the Executive Summary: International trade is integral to the process… Read More
Today the U.S. has about 22 billion barrels of proven oil reserves that can be legally developed. Yesterday, President Bush lifted just one of the… Read More
The National Center for Policy Analysis‘ Michael Stroup makes an interesting finding when he compare the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom Index (EFI) with Freedom House’s… Read More
This past Friday, on the same day the Environmental Protection Agency filed their blueprint for a massive reorganization of our entire economy, the United States… Read More
Following up on his apologia for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae today, Paul Krugman blogs: What you need to know here is that the right… Read More
Commenting on the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mess, Paul Krugman asserts in his column today: Fannie and Freddie had nothing to do with the… Read More
In 2004, after a tip from a whistle blower who was later fired, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (Ofheo) issued a report finding… Read More
Despite the fact that the Colombia military just freed three American hostages from the leftist terrorist group FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia), liberals here… Read More
The government-sponsored entities Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are so neck deep in the subprime housing crisis that now the White House is considering putting… Read More
In 1996 then-Rep. Bob Dornan (R-Calif.) lost to challenger Loretta Sanchez by just 979 votes. After Dornan contested the election, the U.S. House of Representatives… Read More
