New Video: Tough Decisions
New Video: Tough Decisions For months the White House has maintained that any “balanced approach” to deficit reduction must include entitlement reform. President Obama has talked about the need to...
View ArticleWhat Happens to All That Tax Money? (Hint: Most of it goes to Social Security...
Long ago, Americans grew immune to reports of federal spending in the billions and then the trillions. It is almost impossible to shock taxpayers. Nevertheless, they do pause every year when they pay...
View ArticleWhere Does Your Tax Dollar Go?
ICYMI, on Tax Day, Heritage provided a useful chart showing federal spending, by percent, laid out on an image of a dollar bill. As it happens, we at Western Free Press did the same thing last year....
View ArticleArthur Brooks: If you care about the poor, you must support entitlement reform
There’s evidence, and then there’s supposition and rhetoric based on emotion without any data. The latter screams that anyone who calls for entitlement reform hates poor people and wants grandma to eat...
View ArticleWhere Some Compromise, Others Have Conscience
The Arizona Republic recently ran a story suggesting Congress has lost the art of compromise. To make the point, they highlighted the recent votes in the House on the FARRM Bill. Claiming this bill was...
View ArticleVoters Should Give Congress an Earful During August Recess
It’s Time to Demand Leadership From Boehner and McConnell Members of the House and Senate have left Washington and returned to their districts and states for the month-long August recess. For most, it...
View ArticleTake One Minute to “Remember the Days …”
Here’s a 1-minute excerpt from a Bill Whittle “Afterburner” video in which he calls on us to remember life before Obama. Wow. That’s a lot of fundamental change in only 5 years! One wonders what’s in...
View ArticleDoes the collapse of Detroit herald the collapse of the nation?
If we do nothing, Detroit’s fate may befall the whole nation. Not all the problems are the same, but one of the biggest is: making promises that cannot possibly be kept. We did this video a while back,...
View ArticleObama’s Lasting Legacy: Transforming America
A Nation of Dependents That Sustain the Democratic Party On the eve of the election in 2008, Barack Obama got lost in his own enthusiasm and revealed his agenda for the coming presidency when he said,...
View ArticleChart: Detroit’s problems are nothing in comparison to the federal government’s!
Take a moment to understand the horrifying implications of this chart: (More from Heritage)
View ArticleIs America the new Rome, and are libertarians geeks?
The first, a serious question, one which we ourselves explored a bit in Rome, America, and the Collapse of the Welfare State. The second—well, we’ll leave it to you to decide.
View ArticleWe’re in the Matrix, and the Democrats are the Machines
Wake up, Neo. In the aftermath of the short-lived, but politically potent, government shutdown, we learned some shocking news: Democrats plan to try to use the leverage they (think) they gained from...
View ArticleBoiling Frogs
ObamaCare is merely the natural extension of the welfare state we’ve evolved into over the past century. We now offer 99 weeks of unemployment insurance, which acts to discourage its recipients from...
View ArticleObama’s Failed Central Planning
Many national economies are having trouble these days as they are either slowing down or not expanding. Remember, the only way to a successful economy is through continuous expansion. Two of the...
View ArticleAmerica Is In Worse Fiscal Shape Than Detroit
By Greg Hunter, USAWatchdog.com Professor Laurence Kotlikoff Video Report Boston University Economics Professor, Laurence Kotlikoff, says, “The country is in worse fiscal shape by many miles than...
View ArticleThe insane failure of the “war on poverty”
A few days ago, we posted “The inmates are running the asylum . . . and it’s driving business abroad,” which included this discussion of the aphorism “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing...
View ArticlePoverty: Another War We’ve Lost
Because this is near the 50th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s declaring war on poverty, there has been a lot of attention paid to the problem that I’m betting will somehow survive even longer than...
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