The political-media establishment’s hype machine kicked into overdrive this morning, after release of a sketchy report  from the Congressional Budget Office, purporting to determine the cost of the Senate Finance Committee version of ObamaCare, otherwise known as the Baucus bill, after the Chairman of the committee.  The preposterous headline:  this bill would reduce the federal [...]

Back in February, President Obama appointed General Stanley McChrystal as commander of all operations in Afghanistan. In a March speech the President announced: “a comprehensive new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan…this marks the conclusion of a careful policy review that I ordered as soon as I took office… On August 30, General  McChrystal completed an [...]

As we reported last week, there is no Senate health care bill.  For weeks the media have reported on Senate Committee deliberations over “health care reform” or “the health care bill.”  But these reports are misleading.  A genuine bill, written in the legalese of legislation does not yet exist.  Senators have been negotiating over, and [...]

In January Obama’s economic team published a report, including the above chart, predicting the number of jobs that would be created “or saved” by the “stimulus” $787 Billion of borrowing and spending. The report authors, through a series of assumptions, estimates, projections, purported to determine the total at 3,675,000 jobs.  They even included figures by [...]

The Senate Commerce Committee met again Thursday to continue “mark up” of it’s version of ObamaCare, written almost entirely by one man, Committee Chairman Baucus.  It was revealed last week that even after months of deliberations this the bill isn’t really a bill at all.  It’s merely a “conceptual paper.” Last week Republicans proposed an [...]

The $787 Billion  Obama Stimulus, AKA Recovery Act, was enacted in February, in an atmosphere of urgency and panic, by Congressmen and Senators who did not read it.  President Obama’s promise was an immediate halt in job losses and resumption in job creation. Last January 9 President Obama commented on job losses during December, 2008: [...]