This #TaxDay, Let’s Also Look to Rid Ourselves of Global Anti-Free Trade Tariffs

By: Seton Motley (Diary)  |  April 15th at 07:49 AM  | 

It’s Tax Day in America.  Which brings to mind one of the late, great Ronald Reagan’s many great lines: “Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the Democrats believe every day is April 15.” And of course Reagan was right.  Taxes damage individuals, families and economies every single day of the year – not just on Collection Day. Taxes are about the | Read More »

Will Paul Ryan Fight for his Budget?

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  April 2nd at 08:32 AM  | 

Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released his budget proposal for FY 2015 yesterday, and as expected, it is quite similar to the budget blueprints from previous years.  Let me first say that this budget would be superior to the status quo a million times over.  Medicaid and Food Stamps would be block granted to the states and Medicare would be subject to at least some optional | Read More »

Government Inaction: Inks and Fonts Edition

By: Jake (Diary)  |  March 29th at 07:00 AM  | 

Printer ink is expensive. More expensive, in fact, than Chanel No. 5 perfume, and while I’m not an expert on perfume, I understand that’s quite a price for some nice-smelling liquid. You know who uses a lot of printer ink? Our government.

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Yes, the government can run out of money

By: John Hayward  |  March 27th at 05:06 PM  | 

While we wait for the meat wagon to arrive and carry off what’s left of Matt Yglesias after Erick Erickson’s epic ground-and-pound this morning, let me add that the popular liberal fantasy of unlimited government money is one of the most dangerous ideas in the modern world.  Our children will grow to hate us if we don’t kill this idiotic talking point stone dead. The | Read More »

The Farm Bill’s Harvest: Bigger, Costlier Government

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  March 19th at 03:03 PM  | 

Earlier this year, we were entreated to a vivid example of how neither party is committed to shrinking the federal government and bolstering private enterprise when they passed a five-year Farm/Food Stamp bill.  CBO pegged the 10-year cost of the bill at $965 billion, up from $604 billion in 2008.  Yet, the politicians sold it as an $8 billion cut because it fell short of | Read More »

The Last Time We Were Really Anti-Free Trade? The Great Depression

By: Seton Motley (Diary)  |  February 20th at 10:06 AM  | 

The cinematic classic “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” made the broader public aware of the greatness that is Ben Stein.  Already a lawyer and speechwriter for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, Stein was cast as the atonal Economics teacher droning his students into stupor. Stein was asked to improvise on camera a lecture.  He chose to in part address one of the fundamental contributors to | Read More »

The GOP establishment just doesn’t care anymore

By: stridentconservative (Diary)  |  February 13th at 12:49 AM  | 

Several key moves by the “leadership” of the Republican Party over the past few weeks have made one thing abundantly clear; even to the casual observer, they just don’t care anymore about the issues important to the Conservative base of the party. They are just going to bide their time, raise their money, and try to buy their re-elections in November. It began with the | Read More »

Obama & Congress Your Bags are Packed

By: littletboca (Diary)  |  February 10th at 12:13 PM  | 

It’s time to write a letter to “Congress” and discuss their reckless spending and their reluctance to be good stewards of our money. Obama and Congress have lost our trust – we actually are beginning to realize that they in fact are our enemy. OBAMA & CONGRESS YOUR BAGS ARE PACKED! “We need to relay the message in plain English don’t spend more than you | Read More »

In Which Congressman Lankford Proves Our Point

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  January 20th at 09:20 PM  | 

Earlier today, Congressman James Lankford announced his candidacy to replace Senator Coburn in Oklahoma.  Groups like Senate Conservatives’ Fund and Madison Project (my day-job employer) pointed out that Lankford has gone along with the establishment leadership in the House on a number of critical votes and that he’d offer more of the same in the Senate.  They called on Congressman Jim Bridenstine to get in | Read More »

Obama Kicks “Redistribution” into High Gear

By: littletboca (Diary)  |  January 20th at 10:38 AM  | 

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” ― | Read More »

Obama delays the budget process yet again

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  January 7th at 01:30 PM  | 

A new report from Congressional Quarterly suggests that ObamaCare isn’t the only item being delayed in the White House these days. Apparently the official White House budget proposal, which is required by law to be submitted to Congress no later than the first Monday of February, is on track to be “at least a month behind” schedule: From the CQ Morning Briefing: WHITE HOUSE BUDGET DELAYED: The | Read More »

New Year Opens With Big Spending Bang

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  January 2nd at 01:14 PM  | 

Congress plans to kick off the new legislative session the same way it ended the last one.  They will continue to spend more money. When Congress voted on the Ryan-Murray budget deal before adjourning for Christmas, members were only signing off on the topline discretionary spending figures, not the individual accounts for all the departments and agencies.  They agreed to repeal part of the sequester | Read More »

Putting 2013 in Perspective

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  December 19th at 03:59 PM  | 

2013 has been a rough year for conservatives. This year began with the passage of the $620 billion tax hike, along with $332 billion in stimulus spending.  It ended with Republicans in both houses helping pass a bill that raises taxes, raises spending, makes it easier to raise taxes in the future, destroys our leverage for two years, screws disabled veterans, and paves the road | Read More »

Ryan-Murray and the Fundamental Lack of Seriousness in Washington

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  December 19th at 04:30 AM  | 

Yesterday, Republicans in the Senate blamed Harry Reid for cutting veterans’ pensions. But the House of Representatives passed the legislation first. The GOP could have fixed it there had Speaker Boehner spent more time reading his legislation than attacking conservatives. Once passed, the House of Representatives headed home for Christmas. Had Harry Reid let the amendment through on Ryan-Murray, the Senate would have had to | Read More »

Hope Yes, Vote No is Not a Winning Equation

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  December 16th at 10:02 AM  | 

Despite the fact that the Ryan-Murray budget deal passed the House with overwhelming support, it was not a slam dunk in the Senate as of late last week.  Without Paul Ryan’s strong influence, individual GOP senators were leery of the deal.  Even the defense hawks view this deal as ‘too little too late.’ The Senate whip count began with only one Republican – John McCain | Read More »