Two weeks ago, The Heritage Foundation held its annual Resource Bank. One attendee, Dan Ray of The Villages, Florida, sat down with me earlier this week to chat about his experience. Dan is a founding member of The Villages Tea Party, and has been a political activist for decades. Dustin Siggins: Why were you at…

Senior IRS Officials did know about the targeting of tea party groups who were applying for a tax-exempt status.  In our statement on Bretibart.com, you can read our comments to the press. Right now we need your help to move the Congressional hearings along and to insure the IRS is held accountable for their actions,…

On Thursday, Rush Limbaugh cited a blog post by American Enterprise Institute scholar James Pethokoukis during his show. The post in question presents the notion of a balanced federal budget in 2015. Unfortunately, the post by Pethokoukis has three major flaws in it that makes its premise – a balanced budget in 2015 – extremely…

Over at The Washington Post’s Wonk Blog, Ezra Klein has a short post discussing how unions have been outspent in Washington over the last 13 years by “business” interests. Despite its brevity, the post opens the spigot to several important policy and political discussions. First, Klein quotes the head of AFL-CIO about the future of…

Tea Party Patriots Reject Apology, Demand Resignations and Insist on Investigation Today the Tea Party Patriots, the nation’s largest tea party organization, rejected the apology by the IRS for targeting tax-exempt groups for further review during the 2012 election cycle and demanded the immediate resignations of all of those involved in the deliberate harassment of Tea…

This morning, ABC’s Jonathan Karl reported the State Department made as many as 12 changes to various Benghazi talking points. This is despite White House Press Secretary Jay Carney declaring “only one word” was changed. From ABC: State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland raised specific objections to this paragraph drafted by the CIA in its earlier…

All across the nation, Tea Party activists are finding new ways to reach our fellow countrymen. In Sharpsburg, Georgia, a Tea Party Patriots group built a boat to show their patriotism. It was so good, they developed a slide show of how they put it together, and the boat float received two awards at two…

In the last few years, a 2009 book and 2010 paper by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff have driven the intellectual discussion over cutting spending and debt in order to grow the American economy. As of late, however, the paper – which concluded that national debt levels over 90% of GDP slow growth dramatically –…

This week, the House is considering passage of the Full Faith and Credit Act, a bill that would force the Treasury Department to prioritize interest payments on the national debt and Social Security payments over all other payments. According to Ways & Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp’s (R-MI) spokesperson Michelle Dimarob, the rest of the…

Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) came out with its budget estimate of the first 7 months of the 2013 fiscal year, as well as its monthly review of April 2013. The bad news? Slogging through it will give you a migraine. The good news? It’s worth it to better understand how the federal government…