Today the House of Representatives is expected to approve yet another bailout for those states that have proved incapable of controlling their spending on government worker pay, benefits and pensions. The $26.1 billion price tag will be funded in part by $11 billion in tax hikes on U.S. companies that compete internationally. From his trillion dollar economic stimulus to his $3 trillion tax hike it has become clear that President Barack Obama views the private sector the same way the Huns viewed a city – as something to be sacked and plundered for the benefit of public sector workers. Th...

Image by Getty Images via @daylife The ObamaCare health insurance mandate was a tax? NOW you tell me! It seems to me that when Obama was pushing to pass ObamaCare, the Democrats denied the fact that requiring Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty was creating a new tax. Here’s a little refresher. This was an interview with George Stephanopoulos which took place in September of 2009. Obama said: “The – for us to say that you’ve got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase. What it’s saying is, is that ...

President Barack Obama spoke last week at the National Prayer Breakfast about the need to return to civility and see God in the faces of our political opponents. The president is by and large a brilliant speaker that commands attention and speaks with seeming insight and intelligence. I emphasize the word “seeming.” Whenever any politician calls for a return to the good old days when people were civil to each other, politically or otherwise, I strain to find the mythical world they are referring to where civility and manners once reigned. In American history there has never been such a tim...

First of all Obama made a visit to Capitol Hill yesterday for a bit of a conference and a pep talk. Let’s flash back to last October, right in the middle of the 2008 presidential campaign. That’s when Obama promised that when health care was discussed in Washington there would be Democrats in the room. There would be Republicans in the room. There would be CSPAN cameras in the room. He (that would be Obama) was going to bring a new era of bipartisanship and transparency to government. Super! I’ll bet some of you actually believed this guy when he made those promises, didnR...

Let’s say that you have invested a pant-load of money in some business. The business is failing. You want it to succeed. You want the best executive talent you can find to step in and save the business … and your investment. Now just how helpful do you think it would be if you told the search committee looking for a new CEO that you were going to appoint some political hack to make sure that the new boss doesn’t make too much money? Can you see that any extraordinarily qualified candidate for the job would tell you to take it and shove it where even the TSA couldn’t fin...