Author: HughS

President Obama is on television right now delivering a speech to the Business Roundtable that can be variously summed up thus: I am not a socialist. This reminds me …

President Obama promised during the campaign that he would not use presidential signing statements to alter the will of Congress, a procedure President Bush's critics likened to shredding the …

President Obama put more distance between his presidency and his candidacy today when he broke yet another campaign promise by signing an earmark laden omnibus spending bill. Candidate Obama …

Some adults are beginning to show up at the Obama Inaugural Party (no, you didn't read that wrong, it's still going on). It's about time because the adolescent nature …

In the aftermath of the housing bubble and steep decline in US financial markets it bears noting that many truths considered heretofore unassailable have been shown to be wholly …

President Obama's decision to raise taxes by allowing the Bush tax cuts to sunset is having the predicted effect on the nation's financial markets: they are cratering. The poisonous …

Update: The link is getting heavy traffic so you may have to try several times. Pattrick Ruffini has written an excellent piece that covers both the Bobby Jindal dust …

One of the more infuriating aspects of Democrat behavior in the recent spending legislation were the vacuous defenses offered up by the party's leaders. Unwilling to offer a detailed …

Buried amid yesterday's coverage of the president's announcement that 50,000 troops will remain in Iraq and Treasury Secretary Geithner's acquisition of almost half of Citibank was this interesting development, …

The Wall Street Journal has an excellent opinion piece on the curious arithmetic underlying President Obama's plan to raise taxes on the highest wage earners. The pull quote from …