Megan Barth

What Government Appropriators Can Learn from 'War Dogs'

Ever since we've had government budgets in this country, there have been efforts by well-intended reformers to more efficiently spend the public's money.

How Some Optometrists Are Robbing Patients Blind

Last month, the largest optometric lobbying group in the nation flew thousands of its members to buddy up with members of Capitol Hill. This is just another example in the recurring history of the American Optometric Association (AOA) attempting to create security in the eye care market by eliminating competition, making friends in Congress, and spreading misinformation.

Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it

The Democrats are a network of criminals who seek to sabotage this past election using the press, various progressive organizations and George Soros NGO's.

One Nation, Under Medicaid, With Misery and Poverty for All

In a recent study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 24 states have a majority of births financed by Medicaid. In other words, a majority of births in nearly half of our nation are born into poverty. This is progress according to Progressives Socialists, the champions of big government (not the little guy) and the architects of the disaster known as Obamacare.

Cronyism Kills Capitalism

Crony capitalism is defined as an economic system characterized by close, mutually advantageous relationships between business leaders and government officials. Many of our nation’s biggest companies come to the Washington Swamp, to hire lobbyists to preserve tax breaks, to use the power of government for competitive reasons or to secure government money for corporate projects. And Elizabeth Warren is happy to line their mutual pockets.

Progressives and Jihadists: A Multicultural Matrimony of Cultural Genocide Wedded in Blood

Assimilation is a crime against humanity...There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam, and that’s it...The mosques are our barracks, the minarets our bayonets, the cupolas our helmets, and the faithful our soldiers. -- Tyyip Erdogan, President of Turkey, 2008

The progressive altar of multiculturalism and diversity was bloodied yet again with the lives of the innocent. Many young girls, one as young as eight, were savagely murdered by a 22-year-old Islamic suicide-bombing loser who detonated a bomb full of nails, bolts and other shrapnel. Twenty-two innocent people murdered, families obliterated, dozens maimed and scarred for life by, yet again, another Muslim male.

Fixing Dodd-Frank From the Bottom Up

The fact that the House managed to cobble together the votes needed to pass Obamacare repeal should be a lesson to the House Leadership, which has for too long attempted to legislate from the top down. By giving conservatives like Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) a seat at the table, they managed to pass a bill that many in the media were already pronouncing dead. It is a lesson that did not escape House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX).

Big Government “Off-Sets" Will Stymie the Reagan Revival

Obamacare repeal was supposed to be an easy lift. For seven years, every Republican in Washington pledged to repeal and replace the law that has greatly damaged our health care system. Yet when it was time for a vote, political and legislative realities hit them in the face. Enacting legislation, even when in the majority, is never easy. While the GOP is pledging to revisit the issue, others are now shifting their attention to tax reform.

Musk misses the earmark on Mars Colonization

Elon Musk has hit back at claims that President Donald Trump’s new NASA bill will be good for his space exploration business, saying it does nothing to get SpaceX's mission to Mars off the ground. Musk also claims the new funding will not provide a boost to his aims of making commercial travel to Mars a reality for the public.

ITIN: The Massive Tax Loophole Allowing Illegal Aliens to Defraud American Citizens

Making Made in America Great Again

“As Factory Jobs Disappear, Ohio Town Has Few Options.” That headline from the New York Times has become an all-too-familiar staple of American journalism, a bitter reminder of how globalization has decimated the manufacturing sector in America’s heartland.

Conservative Groups Push for repeal of Crony Durbin Amendment

The other two words that are most terrifying are Dick Durbin...at least to consumers, small businesses and small financial institutions.

Grassroots Conservatives to Congress and the President – Don’t Raise the Cost of Investment

Margaret Thatcher reminded us that one of the problems with socialism is you “eventually run out of other people’s money,” but that doesn’t stop liberals like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) from finding more sources. His latest crusade is an effort to increase taxes on investment income – namely carried interest capital gains.

Elon Musk and Donald Trump: Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows

President-elect Donald Trump has put together a strong list of appointees to serve in his new administration. Many of his appointees have been his longest and most loyal supporters of his candidacy and his vision to "Make America Great Again," which makes his appointment of Elon Musk to a corporate advisory panel surprising and worthy of scrutiny.

Here's How Trump's HHS Pick Will Change Obamacare

Conservatives who viewed the insurgent candidacy of New York businessman Donald Trump with suspicion have been relieved at the speed and quality of his selections to fill his cabinet. Perhaps most comforting was the recent choice of Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Cronyism in Space?

"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" was the phrase that defined a historic event--a global, scientific breakthrough which defined American ingenuity and exceptionalism. A generation of innovators, explorers, and scientists were inspired by this new world which had opened because of the ingenuity and talent responsible for completing NASA's core mission: deep space exploration, aeronautics and science.

Lame Duck Congress Should Stand for Privacy Rights

As America begins the peaceful transition of power from President Obama to President-elect Trump, we have the opportunity to reevaluate the direction and focus of our country. But during the next two months, the retained Republican majority in both Houses of Congress has the chance to be more than just a lame-duck Congress waiting for January to roll around.

Obama's Plan to Kill the Loan Industry

This month, liberal bureaucrats have continued to prove that they are out of touch with the reality that average Americans are forced to face each day. Those who lean left believe that the purpose of government is to shelter the citizenry from self-inflicted harm. The problem is that, more times than not, their assessments are dead wrong.

The Voting System is Rigged--Part Two:

Morality and integrity are not two adjectives used by informed, objective voters to describe Hillary Clinton, and her hypocrisy is hard to measure. But what can be measured is the amount of fraud and deceptive practices the Democratic National Committee used, as uncovered by Wikileaks, to rig the 2016 primary election.

A DNC Khan Job to Keep the People Ignorant

While the main stream media has been proven to be the campaign mouthpiece for the DNC...oh, wait. Forgive me. Have you forgotten about the #DNCLeaks from Julian Assange? The leaks that exposed the press for colluding with the DNC and the DNC rigging the primary election to secure the nomination for Hillary?