It’s probably too soon to call the Obama presidency a failure, but if he doesn’t stand up to Congress and show some leadership soon, you’ll be seeing more articles like this. It also doesn’t help that he can’t find anyone to work for him who doesn’t have a background of tax evasion, conf...

What Dhimmicrats are calling the $825 Billion Stimulus Stimuless bill passed almost along party lines late this afternoon. I’m actually impressed, the GOP stuck together in the House! They decided not to be the Dhimmis useful idiots for a change. Of course, the Senate will be another whole bal...

It’s been interesting to follow the debate over earmarks in appropriations bills. Everyone knows that they increased dramatically in recent years, to the point where public anger at the practice led Congress to consider ‘reforms.’ There seems to be little confidence that Congress h...

One of the key notions of conservative thought is that people respond to incentives, and change their behavior in many cases for further benefit. When Uncle Sam plunks down a big pile of the taxpayer’s money, like say, $700 billion for Wall Street, and another $700 billion to a trillion for “Sti...

Yesterday, I noted that President Bush issued a veto of the $300 billion pork-laden farm bill and was followed up with a House override of the veto by a significant margin as 100 GOPers crossed over to vote for the override. While all this seems cut and dried, and indeed, I thought that this was all...

There's been a whirlwind of earmark activity of late, with the two Democratic presidential candidates joining the all-but-nominated Republican candidate in backing an effort by Sen. Jim DeMint to institute a one-year moratorium on earmarks. In the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is considering a similar...