US Action News

The teacher’s union takes dues for what is called a “children’s fund.” The funds are then used as attack ads against candidates the union wants to defeat. Members of the union are deliberately deceived into thinking that the fund is used to benefit children. Not really surprising for a union that promotes Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.

Joining a growing chorus of voices that see the Obama administrations decision to force faith based organizations to provide employee insurance which provides abortion pills and contraceptives for free Sen. Marco Rubio says the administration should admit it made a mistake and reverse its decision. The decision came from Health and Human services head Kathleen Sebelius as a result of Obamacare.

The intensive care of the U.S. economy has revealed a comatose patient. New factory orders, new housing starts, durable goods, unemployment figures, M2 money supply, the S&P 500 stock index, and the spread between the 10-year Treasury and the federal funds rate are the predictors for our economy’s health. If you were an emergency doctor with the finger on the pulse of this American economy under the current administration and Congress, you would be calling code blue.

After three years of the most astonishingly stupid and wasteful green energy policies inflicted on Americans, it is hard keeping score of the various beneficiaries of government largess that are going bankrupt. The most famous at this point is Solyndra that went belly up taking a half billion in loan guarantees—taxpayer funded—with it. Beacon Power, a green energy storage plant, filed for bankruptcy last fall took with it $43 million of more Department of Energy loan guarantees. Ener1, touted during a visit by Vice President Joe Biden—who inadvertently called it “Enron1”—filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The electric car battery maker had received a $118 million grant from the Obama administration.

[W]ith the widespread knowledge of gun-walking among federal officials in Arizona, Coulson said there’s “no way” people in Washington, D.C., at ATF headquarters and in the Department of Justice didn’t know what was going on. – Daily Caller

Someone tell Obama. higher taxes have been tried. They fail to grow the economy and create jobs. DUH! Stuart Varney explains how states that have lower taxes and business friendly environments are growing in population, their economy and jobs.

Bernanke said that the current trajectory of the federal budget – marked by large annual deficits – was “clearly unsustainable” and that “serious economic consequences” could result. – CNSNews.com

Big wins for Santorum. Newt sinks. Romney must engage on the issues. Krauthammer says Santorum is the most consistent and “most adept” on the issues.

If the Fed truly wished to help our economy get back to “normal” then it would allow the free choices of individual borrowers and savers to determine the interest rate. It would also end its implicit practice of picking winners and losers in our economy.

The government will force the Church’s institutions (hospitals, schools, charities) to act in a way Catholics consider sinful: to directly buy insurance for birth control, sterilization, and drugs that act as abortifacients. No, the government isn’t forcing employees to use those insured services. But forcing Catholic institutions to pay for those services makes the Church complicit in those acts. – Business Insider