Or so described George Will last November: If courts once again become properly impatient with nonsensical explanations, much of what government does will become untenable. It is lovely that revitalized protection of the individual rights of property and striving may owe much to an abbey where all property is communal. It turns out he was…

When discussing and debating federal spending, liberals focus on defense spending and some subsidies. Conservatives focus on everything else. However, a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report discusses something many politicians and pundits miss – the fiscal threat of interest payments: Following a recent hearing, we were asked by a Member of Congress: “How would…

From the agency trying to push gas to $7 a gallon: Bill Becker, of the National Association of Clean Air Agencies, said, “It is the single most important air pollution control strategy that President Obama will likely offer in his second term as president.” The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to announce the proposed rules…

Yesterday, principal deputy White House press secretary Josh Earnest announced President Obama will finally put forth his 2014 fiscal year budget to the American people – a mere two months and a few days past the legal deadline of February 4, 2013. Earnest said the sequester and other factors played into the tardiness: The budget,…

Can we stop subsidizing green energy, now? Please? The Energy Department’s (DOE) internal watchdog is attacking DOE management of a $1.5-billion stimulus program to help develop technology that captures industrial carbon dioxide emissions. An Office of Inspector General (IG) audit made public Tuesday examines $1.1 billion in funding for 15 projects. In the four years…

In the last three weeks, the fiscal calamities in Greece, Portugal, Ireland, and other nations have been overshadowed by a much smaller, yet potentially more disastrous nation’s fiscal problems: the financial sector of Cyprus. Compromising some 70% of Cyprus’s economy, the financial sector of the island country has, to put it simply, overextended itself to…

On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported a new estimate showed costs under Obamacare those in the individual insurance market would increase dramatically: Insurance companies will have to pay out an average of 32 percent more for medical claims on individual health policies under President Obama’s overhaul, the nation’s leading group of financial risk analysts has…

Another piece of Obamacare may soon be on the trash heap of history: Medical-device companies scored a political victory when the Senate voted in a non-binding resolution to repeal a new device tax, and now they are turning their attention to the House, especially U.S. Representative Ed Markey. The 2.3 percent tax went into effect…

Only Health Care Compact Can Bring About True Reform Today, Tennessee members of Tea Party Patriots (TPP), the nation’s largest tea party organization, criticized Gov. Bill Haslam for claiming to reject the Medicaid expansion forced on the state by Obamacare but instead working out a special deal with the federal government to keep the money…

For years, many brick-and-mortar businesses, as well as many governors, have pushed for the imposition of sales taxes on Internet-based companies. Last week, they got help from the Senate, including 26 Republicans: An Internet sales tax is inching its way closer to being the law of the land: The U.S. Senate supported a non-binding vote…