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Judicial Watch uncovers documents that prove White House press office blacklisted Fox News

By: Mark Tapscott 07/16/11 3:39 PM
Documents uncovered by Judicial Watch made it clear this week that, contrary to multiple official denials, President Obama's White House and Treasury Department press operations coordinated efforts to exclude Fox News from covering a significant news event. Read More

Bundlers raising millions for Obama re-elect

By: Mark Tapscott 07/16/11 2:32 PM
Names and cities of residence for 244 of President Obama's bundlers - rich guys and gals who gather high-dollar contributions from friends, then report them all at the same time - were made public this week, but unless you did some serious digging, you wouldn't know much at all about them. But thanks to OpenSecrets.org and its money-in-politics reporter Michael Beckel, it is possible to know quite a bit about some of the Obama bundlers. Read More

A short history of U.S. credit defaults (You didn't know it's happened multiple times before?)

By: Mark Tapscott 07/16/11 1:06 PM
Betcha didn't know this: Only a few months after Congress created the dollar, the government defaulted on the new currency. Happened in 1862. Five months after what was then called the "Greenback" was created in 1861, President Lincoln's Treasury Department failed to redeem them in January, 1862. As the Ludwig von Mises Institute's John S. Chamberlin explains, that led to a fundamental change in approach: Read More

What's this, a conservative columnist in Aspen?

By: Mark Tapscott 07/16/11 5:44 AM
Odds are good that, while strolling the streets of upscale Colorado resorts like Vail and Aspen, you are far more likely to encounter a celebrity somebody from the Left like actor/environmentalist Robert Redford than, say, Rush Limbaugh or Herman Cain. So what a pleasant surprise it is to discover Melanie Sturm at the Aspen Times. Read More

Now even unions see Obama, EPA moving to kill coal, quarter-million jobs

By: Mark Tapscott 07/16/11 5:07 AM
President Obama's cap-and-trade bill died in the Democrat-run 111th Congress, but that hasn't stopped the chief executive and Lisa Jackson, his U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator, from finding regulatory paths to achieve the same goals. Read More

Obama's Deep Pockets

By: Nate Beeler 07/14/11 3:11 AM
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New survey finds young Hispanics open to conservative values

By: Mark Tapscott 07/13/11 6:55 PM
Politicians, campaign strategists, academics, journalists and others who assume  Hispanics aged 18-29 favor higher taxes, more government spending and increased government regulation of business are in for a shock, according to the results of a new survey to be released tomorrow. Read More

Federal tax dollars still rolling in for ACORN

By: Ralph Smith 07/13/11 2:43 PM
President Obama has said that both parties must take on their “sacred cows” in order to reach a debt-ceiling compromise. He could start by taking on ACORN, a cow so sacred to the Democratic Party that it is still receiving federal funding despite a 2009 vote by Congress to stop giving the controversial group any more tax dollars. Read More

Memo to Hill GOP: How to take the Social Security card out of Obama's hands

By: Mark Tapscott 07/13/11 4:55 AM
President Obama has more than a few congressional GOPers shaking in their boots with his threat to not pay Social Security checks after August 2 if Republicans don't cave in to his demand that they support tax increases and hiking the national debt limit. Read More

Shuttle Diplomacy

By: Nate Beeler 07/13/11 12:24 AM
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