The National Taxpayers Union released its 2007 “Taxpayer Score” yesterday. The annual NTU rating reflects a congressperson’s commitment to reducing federal spending, taxes, debt and… Read More
The Politico has a story today on the Warner/Lieberman cap-and-trade bill expected to win floor consideration later this spring. The article focuses on whether or… Read More
Reporting on yesterday’s events on Capitol Hill, the New York Times notes: “It is not easy to draw a straight line from the slumping economy… Read More
One might expect the National Review and Wall Street Journal to point out that the top two Democratic presidential candidates are lying to the American… Read More
Today Gen. David Petraeus told the Senate today that the recent flare-up of violence across Iraq demonstrates that recent security improvements are “fragile and reversible.”… Read More
In yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice laid out a strong case for free trade with Colombia on U.S. security grounds…. Read More
The Heritage Foundation has been raising doubts about the Senate’s efforts to “do something” on the housing crisis for weeks now. With a vote scheduled… Read More
The report from Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker to the Senate today could be a clarifying moment in the debate over Iraq if… Read More
Promoting his 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth Al Gore claimed that “the debate in the scientific community is over.” And in his movie he asserted… Read More
President Bush finally sent the Colombian free-trade deal to Congress today … just in time for it to qualify for fast track status. Congress now… Read More
Considering how quickly the Senate is moving on a housing bailout bill (cloture scheduled for 2:15 Tuesday), it is surprising how universally unpopular some of… Read More
The more things change, the more they stay the same. The last time Gen. Davis Petraeus testified MoveOn.org tried to discredit the war effort by… Read More
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Kimberly Strassel details what exactly the labor movement is expecting from Democrats in return for their nearly $1 billion in… Read More
With rumors swirling that President Bush will submit the Colombia Free Trade deal to Congress Tuesday, Presdient Alvaro Uribe sat for interview with the Wall… Read More
Environmentalists had a busy month trying to force federal government action on global warming. In the Senate, Environment and Public Works Committee chair Barbara Boxer… Read More
According to the E.J. Dionnes of elite media groupthink, the current economic troubles are due solely to unfettered Wall Street greed and the federal government’s… Read More
CQ reports that the Senate is debating “a contentious bankruptcy amendment” to the broad housing bill now under consideration. The amendment sponsored by Sen. Dick… Read More
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator Stephen Johnson announced that the agency will respond to the Supreme Court’s Massachusetts v. EPA decision by issuing… Read More
The Wall Street Journal editorial page looks at recent liberal efforts to attack conservative economic policy as a Herbert Hoover “Let the economy sink” approach… Read More
Today NATO leaders issued a statement calling on all NATO members to explore ways in which planned U.S. deployment of a missile defense system in… Read More
Covering the current financial turmoil Wednesday CNBC reported: The root structure of the credit crunch stretches wide and deep. Many of the financial instruments involved… Read More
NATO’s decision today to back plans to build a missile defense system in Europe is a huge victory for U.S. security. With Iran continuing to… Read More
Reporting on the Senate’s new housing bailout bill, the New York Times claims “Senate Republicans, in particular, had felt compelled to move housing legislation quickly… Read More
The pressure on Congress to “do something” on housing appears so great that many members normally inclined to keep Congress out of the housing market,… Read More
Explaining new Republican support for congressional action on housing, Sen. John Thune (R-SD) admitted to Politico: “You always want to be able to vote for… Read More
Today’s Free Trade Fact of the Day Cato Institute’s Center for Trade Policy Studies director Daniel Griswold who shows that the lowering of trade barriers… Read More
Despite claims from the opposition party that they won 50.3% of the vote from the weekend’s presidential election, Zimbabwe’s state-run newspaper claimed today that no… Read More
There’s plenty of anger at major oil companies right now, especially in Congress. But does acting on that anger make for smart energy policy? Will… Read More
Today the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will hold an oversight hearing on the Interior Department’s delay in deciding whether to list the polar… Read More
The agreement reached by the Leadership in the Senate to bring housing legislation to the floor is both good news and bad. It is good… Read More
