Finally, an Insider-Tra...

Peter Schweizer, The Daily Beast The STOCK Act to ban insider trading by members of Congress has sailed through the Senate, 96-3, and many members of the U.S. Senate were no doubt kicking and screaming as they voted for it. Heck, some of the most prominent cosponsors were people that I...

The Week in Review: Jan...

It certainly wasn’t a slow news week, with Congress digging into Occupy D.C., taxicabs getting failing marks from plenty of D.C. residents and a locally made gin and whiskey just months away. [ more › ] Read the original post:  The Week in Review: January 23-29,...

Afternoon Snack: Chines...

Tasty news bites including meat week, stories on China and authors on their favorite books. [ more › ] Here is the original post: Afternoon Snack: Chinese Food...

Liberal Dogma Is Holdin...

Cheri Jacobus, The Hill If President Obama proposed in his upcoming State of the Union speech that inner-city kids get paid to be janitors in their own schools, Democrats in Congress would give him a standing ovation "” led by the members of the Congressional Black...

Hooray for the "Do...

Joel Pollak, RealClearPolitics On September 2, 2011, the government's official unemployment statistics revealed that the U.S. economy had created zero jobs in August, and the unemployment rate stood at 9.1 percent.A few days later, on Sept. 8, President Barack Obama addressed a...

Under Obama, DC Is More...

Brown & Allen, Politico Republicans say Obama never tried hard enough to understand Congress. | AP Photo Here is the original post: Under Obama, DC Is More Divided Than...

Where to Start in Repea...

Sally Pipes, DC Examiner See the rest here:  Where to Start in Repealing...

How We Came to Value Sp...

Robert Shiller, NY Times GRIDLOCK in Congress implies that there won’t be any collective decision to spend more as a nation to get out of our slump. Increases in deficit spending seem unlikely, and so does the balanced-budget stimulus I’ve been advocating in this...

Obama Pushes for Author...

Alexis Simendinger, RCP Anticipating his Jan. 24 State of the Union address, a leaner budget proposal in February, and a platform that could support him during a competitive re-election bid, President Obama on Friday said Congress should grant him special authority to shrink government on...

Will Bain Claims Come B...

Ryan Lizza, New Yorker Mitt Romney has been successful at most of the major endeavors of his adult life. By the standards of the private-equity world, Bain Capital was a wild success when he led it in the nineteen-eighties and nineties. In 2002, he really did revive the failing Winter...