Dear Ruler is off to Hawaii for a 17 day vacation.

The US needs to generate 263,700 jobs every month to return to pre-depression employment levels by the end of Obama’s second term (if re-elected).

Ronald Reagan promoted optimistic prospects for the future, and it appears as if liberal ideologue Barack Obama looks for every opportunity to suppress them.

Rep. Paul Ryan argues, “The president’s policies are the opposite of what America needs for prosperity and job creation.”

November's jobs report, as expected, showed a slight pickup in hiring, but the surprising positive —a lower unemployment rate—could be masking a troubling trend.

Where Ron Paul is right: The drug war works about as well as prohibition of alcohol did.

Nearly 1 million undocumented immigrants could live and work openly in California with little or no fear of deportation under an initiative.

U.S. lawmakers push for better treatment of illegal immigrants … in Mexico.

Under the Obama regime, arrests of illegal migrants trying to cross the southern U.S. border have plummeted to levels not seen since the early 1970s.

Here’s a look at a union goon’s vision for America – the Chinese model. Keep in mind that this guy was the most frequent visitor to the Obama White House in the first year of his presidency.

Lawmakers are considering extending temporary payroll tax cuts. But the policy is based on faulty Keynesian theories and misplaced confidence in the government's ability to micromanage short-run growth.

One of the themes coming from the Occupy Wall Street movement is the liberal claim that if there were fewer rich people, there would be fewer poor people. Here’s a look at how that is a counterproductive view of our economy.

Rectal-cranial inversion moment of the day: Demorcrat Congresswoman Donna Edwards tells Occutards in DC, “It’s time for us to occupy America”…

This is how the left and the ObamaMedia feel about our country: "The United States is becoming rapidly one of the most socially unjust societies in the world."

You don’t professionalize until your federalize .. An 85-year-old grandmother says she plans to sue the TSA after a humiliating strip search by agents at JFK Airport. The TSA, by the way, is claiming it never happened.

Government absurdity: A Swedish man has been denied a power wheelchair despite having had both of his legs amputated as the local health authority remained "uncertain if the impairment was permanent.”