SOTU FACT: President Obama’s Policies Have Made Our Economy Worse

CLAIM: President Obama says our economy has “momentum.”

“As long as I’m President, I will work with anyone in this chamber to build on this momentum.” (President Obama, State of the Union Address, January 24, 2012)

FACT: President …

Political predictions are often hard to make. Even people who are smart, savvy, and informed make them and then turn out to be wrong. We rarely go back and check, but it’s true even of the finest pundits.

Similarly, when pundits give advice about what a …

Yesterday, I called your attention to analysis suggesting that in spite of Gingrich’s rather resounding victory in South Carolina, the race is still Romney’s to lose. I offered a potential counter-analysis that this race has, since the beginning, been all about Romney vs. a series …

Dems Take White House to Task for Killing Keystone Pipeline Jobs

A chorus of criticism is being directed at the White House for rejecting 20,000 Keystone pipeline jobs, and by a surprising group: members of the president’s own party.  The White House is not just …

ABC News reports that “three new national polls should give Democrats some serious pause. They show a very vulnerable president who is serious danger of losing re-election.”

ABC/Washington Post polling shows Obama’s approval rating at 48 percent.  Pollster Gary Langer writes: “In polling since 1940, just …

This week the House of Representatives will vote on a resolution to disapprove of the Obama administration’s request for an increase in the nation’s debt ceiling – another “sign of leadership failure,” in the president’s own words.

The vote itself is an indictment of the …

The image below is one of those things that gets forwarded around and around the Internet. It’s provenance is unclear now, but the message make America’s budget insanity quite cogent:

Those who argue in favor of large government debt will insist that governments …