Author: HughS

As Americans prepare to celebrate the 4th of July it's worth asking, are you better off than you were two years ago when Democrats took over Congress? Are you …

It appears that the question of whether the federal government is going to bail out the state of California has been rendered moot. Two large banks have announced that …

I speculated recently that the worm may be turning as it relates to the Obama administration's political capital. The near Teflon like protection that a fawning press afforded him …

The president's apologists at The New York Times are putting the best possible spin on the administration's economic forecasting failures. That the Times is even writing about this subject …

I have mentioned before the contrast between the restructuring and hard choices being made by the private sector and the response of state and federal governments to the economic …

Yesterday the Washington Post was trying to make the point that President Obama is offering no solutions to the debt tsunami that has suddenly consumed the newspaper's attention: "To …

Ed Morrisey notes that President Obama may have blundered into a Dukakis moment last night during the ABC broadcast from the White House: Barack Obama got ABC to move …

At his press conference today President Obama " >claimed that things are much worse now than could possibly have been anticipated when the stimulus legislation passed in February: Obama …

Yesterday The New York Times disclosed that one of its reporter's, David Rhode, had escaped from his Taliban captors after having been held for seven months. If you're scratching …

In an earlier post I posited the question of what motivated congressional Democrats and President Obama to promulgate policies that hindered taxpayer's ability to pay off the substantial amount …