“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” — Mahatma Gandhi Many thanks to all of our readers and Facebook friends! We really appreciate your kind notes, encouragement, and especially the great tips. Below are a few stories we’ve broken through the years, including a couple […]

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The Washington Post reports today, “Republican senators are asking President Obama to drop plans to sign an executive order forcing government contractors to disclose donations to groups participating in political activities, saying the White House shouldn’t use a company’s political history to determine if they’re eligible for government work. A draft proposal on the issue […]

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  The Washington Post reports today, “Soaring gasoline prices are biting into household incomes and nibbling at Americans’ fuel consumption — and support for President Obama, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll. About six in 10 respondents said they had cut back on driving because of rising fuel prices, and seven in 10 said […]

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Great editorial today in The Journal on “right to work.” Twenty two states already have right-to-work laws and they’ve tended to outperform the others economically, a fact that has states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Minnesota, Maine and New Hampshire working on their own reforms. In Missouri, state senate President pro-tem Rob Mayer has pushed right […]

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The Wall Street Journal has an excellent editorial today on the Obama administration’s latest plans to circumvent Congress by implementing parts of the DISCLOSE Act via executive order, which was first uncovered by former FEC Commissioner Hans von Spakovsky last week. The WSJ editors write, “The order would implement parts of last year’s Disclose Act, […]

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Reporting on President Obama’s appearance at Facebook headquarters in California this week, the AP writes, “Obama said that unless lawmakers get the country’s long-term finances under control, more immediate economic gains could prove difficult. ‘If we don’t have a serious plan to tackle the debt and the deficit, that could actually end up being a […]

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Reuters, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal all report today on the story former FEC commissioner Hans von Spakovsky broke at Pajamas Media yesterday about the Obama administration’s attempt to circumvent Congress and implement portions of the partisan DISCLOSE Act by executive order. The Washington Post writes, “President Obama is considering an executive […]

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Reporting for Pajamas Media, former FEC commissioner Hans von Spakovsky writes about the Obama administration’s latest attempt at an end-run around Congress: “An impeccable source has provided me with a copy of a draft Executive Order that the White House is apparently circulating for comments from several government agencies. Titled ‘Disclosure of Political Spending By […]

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Following his widely criticized speech on the debt last week, The Washington Post reports today, “President Obama will hit the road this week and forcibly deliver his message that a combination of spending cuts and tax hikes on the rich is necessary to rein in the nation’s rocketing debt — a high-stakes effort to rally […]

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As Congress begins to focus on the next major fiscal issue, whether to raise the nation’s debt limit, Democrats can’t seem to agree on how to approach the issue, even as they fall all over themselves to explain why they think it’s vital to raise the limit now but eagerly voted against doing so a […]

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