Ken Blackwell A monumental opportunity has presented itself as Julian Castro, former mayor of San Antonio, takes over as the new Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Congress looks ahead on the critical issue of housing finance reform. After years of tepid growth and false starts, leaders in Washington have the opportunity to give […] Continue reading → 
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) encourages his fellow Republicans to kill the Export-Import Bank in a USA Today editorial, in which he describes the bank as a “corrupt crony-capitalist fiasco” that does a good deal of deliberate harm to American companies: The Export-Import Bank is big businesses’ big-government bank backed by U.S. taxpayers. It sends huge […] Continue reading → 
A shocking new report from government watchdog group Judicial Watch shows just how hypocritical and out of touch the Obamas are, particularly regarding the amount of taxpayer dollars spent on their vacation travel versus their constant talk about income inequality, the struggling middle class and the poor. The outrageous sums of money that are spent […] Continue reading → 
Maybe we’ll get lucky and he’ll trip over Hillary coming out of the WH and have a fall to the bottom of the WH steps and we won’t have to pay him. Washington Free Beacon – by Bill McMorris Vice President Joe Biden plans on relying solely on taxpayers to fund his retirement. Biden declared […] Continue reading → 
The tension between federal and state powers over a permanent ban on Internet access taxes took the spotlight on Wednesday during House Judiciary Committee debate. Without an extension passed by Congress, a moratorium banning state and local governments from taxing internet access, first enacted in 1998, is set to end on Nov. 1. The bill, the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom […] Continue reading → 
Throughout the history of our nation, First Ladies have usually had a “pet project” that they advocated and raised awareness for, and there is nothing wrong with that. This only becomes a problem when advocacy turns to activism, and taxpayer money gets involved. Michelle Obama is an activist First Lady, and her “pet project” of […] Continue reading → 
Absolve Themselves Of Responsibility & Loot Taxpayers For $650,000 To Pay Settlement Information Liberation – by Chris Nassau County, New York police officers raided the wrong home and shot an innocent woman in the chest while she reportedly cowered in a closet begging police not to shoot her. The police claim the officer who shot […] Continue reading → 
I am not a fan of former U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner. He presided over the politically conceived, patently unconstitutional and anti-free market taxpayer bailouts of banks, automakers and insurance companies in the latter part of the administration of former President George W. Bush, when he was the head of the Federal Reserve Bank […] Continue reading → 
A bill to renew more than 50 expired tax breaks for businesses and individuals cleared a key hurdle in the Senate Tuesday, giving hope to millions of taxpayers who would otherwise be hit with unwelcome tax increases next spring. Other hurdles remain, however. The Senate voted 96-3 to open debate on the bill, which has […] Continue reading → 
Latest numbers from the Internal Revenue Service show changes in the individual income tax base for each state, with the Sunbelt region outpacing the rest of the country, and gains coming at expense of its northern neighbors. Florida’s economy is basking in a whopping $5 billion increase among new residents’ incomes in the most recent […] Continue reading → 
On Wednesday, Facebook released data on its performance in the first quarter of 2014, and the results were very impressive [2]. The social network has succeeded in monetizing its enormous audience, having generated $642 million in profit on $2.5 billion in sales. The expectation is that Facebook profits will amount to 25 cents per share, […] Continue reading → 
Video Rebel’s Blog Few people noticed that government changed the First Amendment to really mean that you can assemble in a designated Free Speech Zone and sign a petition which you cannot present to an elected official without committing a felony. The Federal government has been revising the Bill of Rights to such an extent […] Continue reading → 
The gap between the Ruling Class and its faithful servants, versus the citizens of a dwindling American private sector, grows ever wider. Who knows which outrage will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back and triggers a widespread citizen revolt against their corrupt and arrogant government? How about the Internal Revenue Service paying millions […] Continue reading → 
Microsoft is getting ready to expand its data center efforts with a new location in Iowa that will cost $1.13 billion (yep, that’s not a typo) to build. The official announcement was made on Friday by local and state government officials. DES MOINES — Central Iowa is emerging as an economic magnet for high-tech data centers, […] Continue reading → 
The Internal Revenue Service doesn’t like to talk about it, but penalties for filing late federal tax returns apply only to people who owe money. The penalty is a percentage of what you owe. If you owe nothing, 5 percent of nothing is — nothing! But it doesn’t make much sense to file late. If […] Continue reading → 
Floyd Brown, “Without precedent” is how one member of Congress described it. Another member announced it was “nearly unbelievable.” No, they weren’t talking about the latest Obama girls’ outing to China. They were talking of the more than $1 billion spent on travel every year by Obama and his family. Or, as Britain’s Daily Mail […] Continue reading →