As we pause this Labor Day to honor the indispensability of American workers – and the essential roles they play in advancing our economy and national fabric – we must also honestly examine the forces currently holding them back. And that starts with a basic acknowledgement that the sweat of our brows is producing diminishing returns – both for ourselves and our families.

Do we live in a nation of laws enacted by our duly elected representatives? Or do we live in a country in which a handful of elites can do as they please with no regard to those laws — or due process for those affected by them? This is the central question the U.S. Supreme Court must answer in the wake of Halbig v. Burrell — the court case that could derail Barack Obama’s socialized medicine monstrosity once and for all.

In January 2011 President Obama – stung by an electoral rebuke that cost his party control of the House of Representatives – issued an executive order attempting to reassure the public regarding his rapidly expanding regulatory state. This is the modus operandi of Obama’s regulatory state: Erring on the side of government intrusion no matter what the outcome.Read more ›

America was built on the rule of law — indispensable liberties articulated by the Magna Carta and Anglo-Saxon common law and expanded upon during the American Revolution, the U.S. Civil War and the civil rights movement. Obama’s arrogant disregard for the rule of law is destroying this shared heritage. It is breaking the bonds of civil society — fueling the very distrust and contempt for government Obama professes to abhor.

That old saying, “if you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything,” is being proven true yet again by the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives. Failing to embrace an agenda that would keep faith with the people who elected them, the House GOP honchos — led by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton of Michigan — are about to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Recent proposals coming from the House GOP leadership on how to address Obamacare reminded me of a sleazy — and illegal — trick that some unscrupulous hunters use. You see, deer love salt. They crave it so much that they will go to it even when their other senses are trying to warn them of danger. Called “salt licks,” they are used as bait, knowing the deer will lose their perspective and rush to the salt so the hunter can gun them down.

Once ObamaCare benefits kick in, the political will on the right to roll them back will be even less than it is today. It will become permanent. All told, up to 193 million Americans will qualify for taxpayer funded health insurance. The law must be dismantled before it is too late. The GOP needs to remember “It is the Cringing Dog that gets kicked”.

A national carbon tax masked as an “emissions marketplace” is one of the few pieces of anti-free market legislation Barack Obama has failed to pass during his first four-and-a-half years in office. Clearly this defeat has irked Obama, who is now attempting to bypass Congress and use his rogue Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to impose sweeping new regulations on America’s energy industry.

“[T]he only question now is just how bad the crash will be.” That was none other than New York Times pundit Paul Krugman commenting on recent financial developments, including a credit slowdown, in China, an economy he says “has reached its limits” after decades of record expansion.

There is really no opposition party in Washington, D.C., raising the question of why, exactly, voters should even put Republicans into the majority? So that Fred Upton can have a nicer office? If the Republican Party does not stand for anything, then there is no reason for it to be in power except for personal power and perks.