Blog
Supreme Court Scores Two Goals For the First Amendment: Reaction to Harris and Hobby Lobby
Jun 30, 2014
•
Today the Supreme Court ruled in two major cases pertinent to the preservation of First Amendment rights. In Harris v. Quinn, the court ruled that public sector unions may not force those that are not full public employees or members of their union to pay dues, often used for political purposes. In Burwell (formerly Sebelius) v. Hobby Lobby, the court determined that the...
President Obama claims "By every measure, economy is better." Is it? Time for a fact check.
Jun 26, 2014
•
President Obama, addressing a townhall-style crowd in Minneapolis today made the claim that “by pretty much every measure, the economy is doing better than when I first took office.” This bold assertion should raise some serious eyebrows, beyond those wondering why the president is still wasting taxpayer dollars flying around the country and campaigning despite winning reelection. If Mr. Obama...
After years of anemic economic growth following the largest financial crisis since the Great Depression, the economy actually shrank by almost 3 percent last quarter according to a Department of Commerce report released today. This is the largest contraction of the economy since the technical end of the last recession. American Encore President Sean Noble offered the following...
Today the Supreme Court handed down a decision regarding the EPA’s recent efforts to limit the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs). The ruling essentially bars the Enviromental Protection Agency (EPA) from unilaterally rewriting federal law to make its climate change related regulations more workable for the agency....
Last week, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) informed the House of Representatives’ Committee on Ways and Means that they had “lost” three years worth of emails from Lois Lerner, the disgraced IRS official at the center of the scandal involving the IRS targeting of conservative and tea party groups, because her computer crashed. Naturally, many were skeptical of the claim given its...
