Jaime Fuller

During his career in Congress, Paul Ryan has tried hard to plant the idea that he is the second coming of Jack Kemp, whom he worked for briefly in the 1990s. At the Kemp Foundation’s first event in 2010, the Wisconsin representative said, “Jack is the reason I ran for Congress. I was motivated by […]

Saturday will be the one-year anniversary of the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut that left 20 small children dead. Gun policy in the United States has changed markedly in that year, with 109 new state laws being passed. Seventy of those laws loosen pre-existing gun regulations. Gun-rights groups spent seven times more money lobbying legislatures […]

Yesterday, Representative Steve Stockman posted a letter on his website. It began, “Dear patriot, You are in a foxhole fighting to save our constitutional Republic … and the last thing you need is a Republican bayonet in your back. But that’s what liberal John Cornyn has been doing to you every day.” That would be […]

2013: “Briefly laying aside differences hardened over decades, President Barack Obama on Tuesday shook the hand of the president of Cuba at the memorial service for Nelson Mandela.” 2013: “Obama Shakes Hands With Raul Castro. Let’s All Freak Out.” 2013: “An encounter between Obama and Iran’s new president at the United Nations on Tuesday would […]

“More than half of renters-21.1 million households-were cost burdened in 2012, paying more than 30 percent of income for housing. This is the greatest number of housing cost burdened renters on record.” “Twenty-two billionaires-just shy of two percent of the world’s total-have purchased units in a condominium tower being built in Sunny Isles Beach, a […]

South African President Jacob Zuma: “We’ve lost our greatest son.” President Barack Obama: “Like so many around the globe, I cannot fully imagine my own life without the example that Nelson Mandela set. And so long as I live, I will do what I can to learn from him.” Secretary of State John Kerry: “Nelson […]

Representative Doug Collins, on President Obama: “You got to go up there, and you just impeach him.” Senator James Inhofe, on President Obama: “People may be starting to use the I-word before too long.” Former representative Dennis Kucinich, on President Obama: “President Obama moved forward without Congress approving. He didn’t have Congressional authorization, he has […]

It’s December, which means that the myriad opinions on Obama’s leadership style will soon morph into much miffedness over our country’s lamentable inability to appreciate Christmas enough. The war might just be celebrating its centennial this year, according to an article from 1913 highlighting the Society for the Prevention of Useless Giving’s crusade against Christmas […]

Congress has until December 13 to pass a budget. If they don’t, we could have another shutdown when funding dries up on January 15. Given their track record of late (Exhibit A, B, and C), this may be a tall order. Much of the media seems to agree. For example, this shade-throwing New York Timesheadline: […]

It’s officially the holiday season, which means that many Americans are thinking about flooding stores to spend gobs of cash … or wishing they had the money to go on a shopping spree and working a few extra shifts instead. Which means ’tis the season to talk about the minimum wage. Better late than never. […]