Stumbling toward financial sanity? How House Republicans revived the budget process

Stumbling toward financial sanity? How House Republicans revived the budget process

Sol W. Sanders   Could it be that the numbing financial and economic crisis engendered by divided government in Washington is returning the country to an authentic budget process? That piece of what may well be Pollyanna comes out of an examination of what has actually been going on, rather than the mainstream media’s hysterical […]

Cruz missile strike against a bureaucratic monstrosity and the ruling class

Cruz missile strike against a bureaucratic monstrosity and the ruling class

Jeffrey T. Kuhner Sen. Ted Cruz is a hero. The Texas Republican’s marathon speech decrying the evils of Obamacare has enraged Washington’s ruling class. Democrats and many Republicans are vilifying him. The establishment media — on the left and right — are portraying him as an out-of-control, ambitious and egotistical cowboy, who is cynically exploiting […]

Obamacare panic: The worthies who imposed it and can afford it don’t want it

Obamacare panic: The worthies who imposed it and can afford it don’t want it

Wesley Pruden When crunch time comes, when the chips are down, when the rubber meets the road – employ the cliché of your choice – Americans can put away their selfish concerns and come together in common cause. Even Congress, our only native criminal class. Deep in the bowels of the Senate and House Office […]