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  • Krugman's bad predictions

    Published April 12, 2012

    Paul Krugman has been, and remains, Obama’s most important champion.  Not only has he been defending Obama’s Keynesian-type deficit-spending, but he has been advocating still more of these same failed policies.  

  • Team Obama and the phantom jobs that never were

    Published April 06, 2012

    No matter how you measure it, the answer is the same: there has been no job growth under President Obama.

  • Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman and the media's misleading rhetoric on guns

    Published April 03, 2012

    The focus on a single case to evaluate laws that have been in effect for years in over 40 states is troubling enough. But right now it looks as if the rush to reform is based on nothing more than bad reporting.

  • Where did stimulus money really go?

    Published March 23, 2012

    Here's the truth: President Obama's stimulus plan was simply a massive partisan wealth transfer -- the single largest transfer of wealth in American history.

  • If lead bullets are banned, it could compromise self-defense

    Published March 16, 2012

    The lead in ammunition has never been shown to produce any health hazards, but a ban by the Obama administration would produce a real health hazard.  

  • Yes, government policies could help bring down the price of gas -- today

    Published March 13, 2012

    Higher oil prices today reduce consumption and increase inventories and thus reduce how much prices will rise if disaster strikes.

  • What's the truth about the unemployment numbers?

    Published March 04, 2012

    Recent sudden drops in unemployment rates have generated a slew of positive news stories. But other numbers show a much weaker job market and economy, where the average unemployment duration remains near its all-time high. So which scenario is right?

  • Obama's contraception deception

    Published March 01, 2012

    Do President Obama’s policy wonks really think that forcing the only available insurance plans contain that coverage is really different from mandating that someone purchase abortion and contraception insurance coverage? 

  • David Brock, Media Matters and gun control hypocrisy

    Published February 16, 2012

    Surprise, surprise, Media Matters founder David Brock joins a long line of gun control advocates who take the "do as I say, not as I do" approach to guns.

  • The bad news behind the January jobs report

    Published February 03, 2012

    Let’s not forget the millions of Americans who have given up looking for work or been forced to take part time jobs.