Dependency Index Surges 23% Under President Obama

By JOHN MERLINE
INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY

The American public’s dependence on the federal government shot up 23% in just two years under President Obama, with 67 million now relying on some federal program, according to a newly released… Read more

Republicans Denounce Obama’s Nuclear Cuts as ‘Reckless Lunacy’

By Newsmax Wires

Congressional Republicans are vowing to block the Obama administration from sharply cutting the U.S. nuclear force, calling potential reductions of as much as 80 percent in the number of deployed weapons ”reckless lunacy.”

Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., issued a statement… Read more

A Tea Party Senate Takeover

By Michelle Malkin

CNS News

The tea party isn’t dead. It’s just looking down ballot. While fiscal conservatives remain split over the GOP
presidential candidates, grassroots activists are coalescing around a stellar slate of limited-government candidates looking to reinforce and reenergize the right

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Top Ten, But Falling

By: Ed Feulner
The Heritage Foundation

If you were to rank the countries of the world in terms of economic freedom, where would the United States fall? First, or at least in the top three? The top five, surely.

Because… Read more

Wedding Rings

By Neal Boortz
www.boortz.com

Perhaps the only bright spot of Rick Santorum’s run for the GOP nomination was his response to a question in one of the debates about poverty. The subject was poverty, and he mentioned that staying out of… Read more

The Do-Nothing Senate

Memo to GOP candidates: Make Harry Reid an issue.

By: WILLIAM MCGURN    
MainStreet@wsj.com 

Back in the dog days of George W. Bush’s second term, when each month seemed to bring new lows for the president’s approval ratings,… Read more

FY 2012 Spending Blows Through Cap, CBO Shows

By Patrick Louis Knudsen

As House appropriators begin hearings on fiscal year (FY) 2013 spending, a second look at last week’s Congressional Budget Office report shows they already have exceeded their official Budget Control Act limits for the current year… Read more

Obama Administration Has Ties to Clean-Energy Firms

By Paul Scicchitano
Newsmax.

The U.S. Department of Energy provided $2.4 billion to clean-energy companies with ties to the former firm of Sanjay Wagle, a venture capitalist who was a Barack Obama fundraiser during the president’s 2008 campaign.

DOE provided… Read more