Gov't Subsidy

• A Bailout for the Publishing Industry?
  Most people have heard of James Patterson, or at the very least, recognize the titles of many of his books… [...]
• Fisker: a free ride to make flashy cars in Finland
  With nearly a year’s worth of exclusive reporting on Obama’s green-energy crony-corruption scandal, you might think we’ve covered them all—but [...]
• ‘Pro-Choice’ Slave Masters Losing War
  The pro-aborts are losing. They know it, and they hate it. As LifeNews.com reported in January: “CNN released the results of [...]
• Obama pushes $50 billion stimulus plan as automatic budget cuts loom
  The White House on Wednesday pushed for tens of billions of dollars in stimulus funding for decaying roads and bridges, [...]
• Green Energy, Red Ink
  The defenders of clean green energy “investment” (which I put in scare quotes because when a liberal says “investment,” he [...]
• Who Pays for Big Bird’s Supper?
  In the first presidential debate of 2012, a surprisingly relevant question was asked by the moderator, Jim Lehrer. Mr. Lerhrer asked [...]
• The Special Seven: Obamas Green-Energy Crony-Corruption Story, Part III
  Senator Harry Reid’s part—sly connections and stinky consequences So far in our chronicling of the green-energy, crony-corruption scandal, we’ve focused primarily [...]
• The Special Seven: Obamas Green-Energy Crony-Corruption Story, Part II
  Chapter 2: Shining the light on BrightSource Energy’s $1.6 billion shady deal The previous Chapter unraveled SolarReserve and its share of [...]
• GM’s Volt: The ugly math of low sales, high costs
  General Motors Co sold a record number of Chevrolet Volt sedans in August — but that probably isn’t [...]
• Obama, Biden fail to mention GM outsourcing to Indonesia
  On Labor Day, during a campaign visit in Detroit, Vice President Joe Biden boasted that had President Barack Obama not [...]
• General Motors Is Headed For Bankruptcy — Again
  President Obama is proud of his bailout of General Motors.  That’s good, because, if he wins a second term, he [...]
• The Republican Party needs to stand with the nominee on wind energy
  For twenty years American taxpayers have been supporting the wind energy industry through the Production Tax Credit (PTC) and [...]
• Obama’s Overreaches
  The last couple of weeks have seen a major dust-up over President Obama’s proposal to waive some of welfare [...]
• Third Largest Power Company in the World is the Third Largest Recipient of DOE Risky Loans
  Through this special series on green-energy crony-corruption, we’ve been highlighting specific examples of green-energy loan guarantees and grants. What connects [...]
• Shining the light on BrightSource Energy’s $1.6 billion shady deal
  Obama’s Green-Energy, Crony-Corruption Story, Part 2, The Special Seven The previous green-energy crony-corruption column unraveled SolarReserve and its share of [...]
• The Special Seven: Obamas Green-Energy Crony-Corruption Story, Part I
  Chapter 1: The SolarReserve high-stakes gamble Everyone who pays any attention to the news knows the name Solyndra. It has become [...]
• The Revolution Was: to Reconcile and Attach to the Revolution the Two Great Classes whose Adherence is Indispensable, namely, the Industrial Wage Earner and the Farmer, called in Europe Workers and Peasants
  Garet Garrett (1878-1954) is a voice largely forgotten or altogether unknown today. Born in Illinois, by the age of twenty-five [...]
• Crony Capitalism and President Obama: how the system really works
  President Obama’s attacks on Romney’s record while at Bain Capital have opened the window on what is being called “Obama’s [...]
• Obama signs reauthorization of Export-Import Bank despite earlier opposition
  President Obama on Wednesday signed a reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank that would raise its lending authority 40 percent to [...]
• Congress’ Annual Hide-The-Spending Ritual Underway
  Every year, the House passes a budget (the same cannot be said for the Senate). After the budget passes, [...]
• Where’s the Accountability?
  Late last week JPMorgan Chase announced that it had lost some $2.3 billion, and possibly more, as a result [...]
• Paul Amendment to Export-Import Bank Reauthorization Fails
  WASHINGTON, D.C – On May 16, the U.S. Senate voted on a series of amendments to the Export-Import Reauthorization bill [...]
• Lee offers Amendment to End Export-Import Bank
  WASHINGTON—Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) delivered a speech on the Senate floor yesterday regarding his amendment to the Export-Import Bank Reauthorization [...]
• DeMint: Government Shouldn’t Tilt the Field for Anyone
  When people ask me if I’m pro-business or pro-labor, I say I’m neither: I’m pro-freedom. Freedom is the only political principle [...]
• Your Tax Dollars Subsidizing the Wealthy
  We knew electric vehicles were expensive, but we didn’t know just how much of that expense was the battery alone. [...]
• Rural kids, parents angry about Labor Dept. rule banning farm chores
  A proposal from the Obama administration to prevent children from doing farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism [...]
• Christie the Prophet
  New Jersey governor Chris Christie recently warned that America is in danger of becoming a country of “people [...]
• Looking At Our Failing, Liberal, and Expensive Public Education System
  The graduate may swing his tassel to the left side of his cap, but what does he have to show [...]
• How Much Education Spending Is Enough?
  The Washington Times reports that the Obama administration’s answer to everything really is simply to spend more: March 22: Education Secretary [...]
• Keeping score of mounting global green failures
  Benny Peiser’s academic resume notes that he’s a social anthropologist whose research focuses on “the effects of environmental [...]
• 7-Day New York March for DREAM Act
  From the Editor: Welfare for our own people is crippling our economy (and moral fiber) enough, yet demands for it [...]
• Morgan Stanley Is High On Chinese Rail!
  Morgan Stanley is in fact very high on Chinese Rail. No thank you. I am not suggesting Morgan Stanley is [...]
• Does the federal government know better than you?
  President Barack Obama and his liberal cronies are trying to turn America into communist China – where the only way [...]
• Bank Runs and Youth Runs
  After we learned our lesson in the Great Depression it looked like the era of the bank run was [...]
• Woman exposed by TSA screener
  A Florida woman, Jennifer Sisk, reports that her body was exposed by a TSA screener during a “pat-down” at [...]
• Dept. of Education partners with Soros
  The Department of Education has partnered with billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Institute to promote a global education initiative [...]
• Obamacare Premise Is Just Wrong
  Next week, the Supreme Court takes up the Obamacare litigation, the heart of which is the issue of whether [...]
• Stimulus funds use “smart” technology for surveillance of American citizens–now that’s “stupid”
  With gas prices climbing, so is the popularity of fuel-efficient cars. AltTransport.com, a site “dedicated to giving you the latest [...]
• GOP must decide: Reject Dems’ crony capitalism?
  When President Eisenhower appointed General Motors CEO Charles Erwin Wilson to be Secretary of Defense, many people questioned whether [...]
• Sen. Paul Questions Energy Secretary on Solyndra Loans
  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Below is video and transcript of yesterday’s Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on oversight of [...]
• Are we spending too much on the TSA?
  If Jon Corbett’s viral video about how he outsmarted the TSA’s full-body scanners doesn’t end the controversial screening program, then [...]
• America’s Verdict on Obama
  When Jonah Goldberg wrote Liberal Fascism back in 2008, liberals blew it off; they weren’t interested in engaging its arguments. [...]
• Transgender Illegal Alien Detainees Will Get ‘Hormone Therapy’ Courtesy of ICE
  Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the division the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) responsible for enforcing the [...]
• TSA Body Scanners are a Product of Fascism
  Nowhere is there a more bold example of fascist economics than in dealings related to national security, especially since the [...]
• Chevy Volt: Building a Better Tomorrow
  Watch this hilarious spoof on the Chevy VOLT before it is taken down — enjoy! Thanks to Bill Howe for [...]
• Boom-Era Property Speculators to Get Foreclosure Aid
  The Obama administration will extend mortgage assistance for the first time to investors who bought multiple homes before the market [...]
• The DREAM Act Scam
  Exactly whose fault is it that the DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) has failed to [...]
• It’s Time For An Honest Budget
  Every year, Presidents and Congress produce budgets that fail to put forth a credible plan to save our country and [...]
• Ron Paul Only GOP Primary Candidate Who Calls For Eliminating Federal Departments
  For the four Republican primary candidates still in the race, only Ron Paul’s budget proposal, “Plan to Restore [...]
• Obama hits Romney hard on auto bailout
  President Barack Obama has been digging at Mitt Romney’s opposition to the auto bailout for months, but as he spoke [...]
• America’s per capita Government debt worse than Greece
  The office of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions released a chart (shown above) that should prompt America to get her financial [...]
• Ron Paul says US ‘slipping into fascism’
  Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul slammed America’s system of governance at a rally in Kansas City, saying businesses and [...]
• President Obama’s fake fossil fuel infatuation
  President Obama’s crush on oil and gas was short lived. On January 24, he angered his green base when, in his [...]
• Obama “phones in” to WIN the election
  Did you know that you’re paying a minimum of $80 a year to buy votes for Barack Obama? Hiding behind the [...]
• Joe Biden: Recovery and Reinvestment Act lived up to its name
  The following is Vice President Joseph Biden’s opinion on the Obama Administration’s Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which was signed into [...]
• Is TSA just another airline subsidy?
  Before 2001, the airlines were responsible for providing airport security; the costs were included in the base fare structure. [...]
• Santorum voted to preserve NEA funding
  When social conservatives were fighting to stop funding the National Endowment for the Arts in the 1990s, Rick Santorum was [...]
• The penalties of feel-good energy policies
  Because of the unproven notion that burning fossil fuels causes global warming, saving energy has become the cultural norm with [...]