From The Heritage Foundation: Speaking to the National Governors Association at the White House today, President Barack Obama endorsedlegislation by Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Scott Brown (R-MA) that would allow states to request waivers from some Obamacare mandates in 2014 instead of the existing 2017 date. President Obama claimed: “It will give you flexibility more [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: This week the media’s attention is finally focused on oil prices. After two years of continually rising consumer gas prices in America, the oil futures market has captivated the Mideast storyline. And attention is much needed. December 2010 saw the highest gas prices for the month of December in our nation’s [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: Last week, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the constitutionality of the individual mandate. The mandate has been declared unconstitutional by federal courts in Virginia and Florida, and appeals are pending in those cases. The committee heard from three legal experts: Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, Duke University law [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: Today, President Barack Obama concluded, and Attorney General Eric Holder announced, that the administration will not defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).  DOMA defines marriage as between a man and a woman for the purposes of federal law, and clarifies that no state has to recognize a homosexual marriage from [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: Last week, the Congressional Budget Office released its report on H.R. 2, the House-passed legislation that would fully repeal Obamacare. The takeaway message was that American taxpayers simply cannot afford Obamacare. CBO’s initial scoring of Obamacare analyzed its effects from 2010 to 2019, including only six years of full implementation, since main [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: The Obama Administration hasn’t had their boot on the neck of just BP but also the entire Gulf economy. Federal Judge Martin Feldman is now doing the same to the Obama Administration. A few weeks after Feldman held the Interior Department in contempt of court for ignoring his ruling to put an [...]

From The Washington Times: Message to Wisconsin taxpayers: President Obama and the Democratic National Committee have declared war on you. Message to other states: You’re next. The political unrest in Wisconsin, billed as some kind of grass-roots uprising, is being organized and directed by Barack Obama‘s Organizing for America and the Democratic National Committee. This development is consistent with Mr. [...]

From Intellectual Conservative: Last week, I attended the premiere of the film Iranium, a documentary about Iran’s Islamic regime and its apocalyptic intentions towards the United States, Israel and the rest of the world not to mention its own people.1 Yet with the protests in Tahrir Square, Egypt was very much on the minds of those [...]

From CNS News: The federal government has borrowed an additional $29,660 per household in the United States since President Barack Obama signed his economic stimulus law two years ago. That brings the total national debt to $125,475.18 per household. At the close of business on Feb. 17, 2009, the day Obama signed the $787-billion law, the national [...]

From CNS News: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the budget proposed by President Barack Obama could leave America with “unsustainable obligations over time.” That’s in contrast to Obama and White House officials who have argued the plan balances the budget without adding to the national debt. The top White House spokesman even called it an [...]

From World Net Daily: In a stunning move, the U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled another “conference” on a legal challenge to Barack Obama’s eligibility to occupy the Oval Office, but officials there are not answering questions about whether two justices given their jobs by Obama will participate. The court has confirmed that it has distributed [...]

From CNS News: The Department of Health and Human Services will become the nation’s first-ever $1-trillion-per-year Cabinet department in 2014, which is also the first year President Barack Obama’s health-care law is scheduled to be fully implemented by that department, according to the budget projections President Obama released yesterday. In fact, HHS already is costing American taxpayers more per [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: Since President Barack Obama was sworn into office total entitlement spending has grown 4%, total discretionary has soared 16%, and the national debt has exploded 43%. Over that same time the United States economy has lost 3.3 million jobs. President Obama cannot be blamed for the most recent recession, but he [...]

From CNSNews.com: On the same day that House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was chiding House Republicans over job creation, the director of the Congressional Budget Office was testifying in the House Budget Committee that the health-care law President Barack Obama signed last year will kill about 800,000 American jobs over the next decade. CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf [...]

From CNSNews.com: President Barack Obama’s budget plan would cut $100 billion from Pell Grants and other higher education programs over a decade through belt-tightening and use the savings to keep the maximum college financial aid award at $5,550, an administration official said. Nearly $90 billion of the projected savings would be achieved through two changes, [...]

From NewsMax.com: U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell criticized President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2012 budget Monday, saying it locked spending at “completely unsustainable” levels. “The president talks like someone who recognizes that spending is out of control, but so far it hasn’t been matched with action,” McConnell said in a statement. “Americans don’t want a [...]

From World Net Daily: It appears everyone, from both sides of the aisle, is praising our president for the way he handled the events of the first geo-political crisis he has faced since occupying the White House. Egypt is now “free” and Mr. Obama will not cease in taking credit for being a large part [...]

From World Net Daily: The Bureau of Labor Statistics appears to be intentionally understating the current unemployment rate, most likely with an aim to bolstering the Obama administration’s claim that the unemployment rate is improving as jobs are created in a recovering economy, Jerome Corsi’s Red Alert reports. In a news release on Feb. 4, the [...]

From World Net Daily: While House Republicans are working hard on legislation to deprive Barack Obama of the money he needs to implement his massive health-care program, there is a way they can accomplish the same ends without a single Democrat vote and no approval by the Senate or White House, says the organizer of [...]

From NewsMax.com: Is a civil war brewing between the Obama White House and Hillary Clinton’s State Department? A New York Times story published this weekend suggests one may have erupted already. On Saturday, the Times, quoting numerous White House sources, sought to explain the Obama administration’s erratic policy statements during the Egyptian crisis. The paper reported [...]