U.S. President Barack Obama released his proposed 2013 budget this week - a $3.8 trillion spending plan which his administration claims will trim $4 trillion from the deficit over the coming decade. Bear in mind that Obama isn't proposing any spending cuts, he is merely proposing to modestly scale
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S.C. Governor Nikki Haley will appear at a fundraiser in Winston-Salem, N.C. later this month on behalf of Pat McCrory, the frontrunner for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in the Tar Heel State. North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue - a Democrat who was swept into office four years ago on Barack
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U.S. President Barack Obama will not attempt to impose a controversial new health care mandate that attempted to make religious organizations to pay for contraceptives, abortion inducing drugs and sterilization treatment. "Under the rule, women will still have access to free preventive care that includes
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Like everything else the federal government touches, America's education system has turned into an unmitigated (and increasingly costly) disaster for students, parents and taxpayers alike in recent decades. America is falling further behind the rest of the world in other countries, while the taxpayer
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Auditioning again to be the conservative Republican alternative to Mitt Romney, former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum swept a trio of non-binding GOP primaries earlier this week. And while Santorum's victories in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri won't boost his delegate count, they did provide yet another
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Three states will go to the polls on Tuesday to voice their presidential preference - Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri. But do any of these contests matter? No. Not a single one of the three states voting on Tuesday will award delegates. In fact Missouri is only holding its primary because the
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Legendary actor/ director (and professed "Republican") Clint Eastwood appeared in a two-minute advertisement during halftime of Super Bowl XLVI declaring that it was "halftime in America, too" and that our nation need only look to Detroit as a road map for restoring its fortunes. Really? "It's
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The American economy posted solid employment gains in January, although worries persist about the extent and the sustainability of the nation's belated "recovery,"cloud the long-term employment picture. Nonetheless, the U.S. economy created 243,000 jobs last month according to statistics released
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"Can we all get along?" Apparently not ... not anymore. Not in America. Once an industrious land of innovation and self-determination, the United States has deteriorated rapidly into a nation of lazy, entitled leeches. And yes ... we're referring every bit as much to the thuggish union boss in
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After shedding more than 1.4 million workers between 2008 and 2010, union membership held steady in 2011 - although the percentage of the American workforce that's unionized edged down again. A total of 14.7 million workers - or 11.8 percent of the nation's workforce - were unionized last year, according
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For the fourth consecutive year the federal government will spend at least $1 trillion that it does not have in 2012, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). How much deficit spending are we talking about? At least $1.1 trillion - which would bring the federal debt to a whopping $16.4
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When the S.C. Department of Transportation (SCDOT) ran out of money last summer Gov. Nikki Haley asked for - and received - a federal bailout. That's right ... the "Tea Party governor" (who only six weeks earlier signed off on the biggest budget in state history) went running to the administration
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