The Congressional Budget Office has crunched the numbers and Mark Tapscott of the Washington Examiner is out of the gate with the remarkable results:  The 2 year failed stimulus bill costs more than the entire Iraq War.
Expect to hear a lot about how much the Iraq war cost in the days ahead from Democrats [...]

In case you missed today’s Boston Globe Mitt Romney offers up common sense solutions to the economic problems our nation faces and in particular he calls out President Obama for his refusal to embrace free market solutions.
IT’S NOT happening the way President Obama had planned. Unemployment blew past his 8 percent ceiling and hasn’t [...]

Nothing like a Hollywood fundraiser to get the truth juices flowing.  And the Hill was on top of it when President Obama acknowledged that he succeeded in passing much of his “progressive” agenda.
President Obama told a Hollywood fundraiser Monday night that he and congressional Democrats have passed the most progressive legislation in decades.
“We [...]

There are plenty of losers as a result of enactment of Obamacare.  In today’s Examiner Sally Pipes outlines just how bad seniors will be hurt by the new law.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, Obamacare will cost at least $938 billion over the next decade. So here’s the big question: Who is going [...]

Today’s Washington Times highlights the bleak news from the actuary’s annual  report on the state of the Social Security program which was released yesterday.
Social Security will pay out more this year than it gets in payroll taxes, marking the first time since the program will be in the red since it was overhauled [...]

Yesterday Missouri voters spoke loudly on the individual mandate.  According to the AP, they don’t like the idea much.

Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a key provision of President Barack Obama’s health care law, sending a clear message of discontent to Washington and Democrats less than 100 days before the midterm elections.
About 71 [...]

Glenn mentioned this last week.  According to ABC News a provision included in the health care bill signed into law by President Obama this year will place new IRS reporting requirements on the buying and selling of gold.
Section 9006 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will amend the Internal Revenue Code to [...]

After promising not to raise the taxes on people making less than $250,000  “one thin dime” the Obama Administration is trying a new tack in Court when it comes to defending the health care mandate.  According to the New York Times, they are calling the comprehensive requirement imposed on every American regardless of income — [...]

CNS is the first to break the news that the vaunted health care law will actually provide for taxpayer support for abortion services.
If you want proof that President Obama’s Executive Order on taxpayer-funded abortion was a sham, look no further than Pennsylvania, says House Republican Leader John Boehner (Ohio).
Boehner and other Republicans point [...]