Author: Michael Laprarie

Well, sort of ... In a 35-minute conversation with The New York Times aboard Air Force One on Friday, Mr. Obama reviewed the challenges to his young administration. The …

On Thursday, an estimated crowd of 50,000 marched through the streets of lower Manhattan to protest New York governor David Patterson's proposed state budget cuts. "Governor Paterson, I wish …

Earlier this week, President Obama introduced his new nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kansas Governor Kathleen Sibelius, and also asked Congress to appropriate $634 billion for …

CNBC's Jim Cramer, the latest media figure to be chastized by the Obama Campaign Administration, has published a response to his recent brush-off by the White House. Although Cramer …

Venezuela has become today's text-book example of what happens to a nation when it is forced to succumb to large-scale economic nationalization. President Hugo Chavez is tightening state control …

From the Chicago Tribune, Feburary 19, 2009: When a stray pit bull attacked 12-year-old Dontae Adams last August, tearing a chunk of the boy's upper lip from his face, …

In 1971 Saul D. Alinsky, founder of the Industrial Areas Foundation, published Rules for Radicals. Alinsky wrote the book because, as a man who had spent nearly his entire …

Answer: When a Politico writer ends his piece on "Obama's Budget Gamble" with this doozy: "Even if we're busting the budget, we've got to solve some of these problems," …

From Reuters: U.S. companies, consumers and communities may grow so addicted to government financial help that cutting them off could trigger another recession soon after the current one ends. …

Some years ago I came to the conclusion that the economic policies espoused by progressives and liberals, and eventually enacted as government policies by the Democrats, were not based …