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Bob Beauprez is a former Member of Congress and is currently the editor-in-chief of A Line of Sight, an online policy resource. Prior to serving in Congress, Mr. Beauprez was a dairy farmer and community banker. He and his wife Claudia reside in Lafayette, Colorado. You may contact him at: http://bobbeauprez.com/contact/
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Bob Beauprez (May 18, 2013)
Eric Holder says the AP reporting of the foiled Yemen airline terrorist bombing plot was perhaps "the most serious" security leak he had ever seen. "It put... more
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Bob Beauprez (May 16, 2013)
As the Obama Administration juggles multiple scandals – Benghazi, IRS, and now the AP – the pack of lies that the President told to sell ObamaCare will likely... more
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Bob Beauprez (May 15, 2013)
Barack Obama dismisses the continuing criticism about the Benghazi cover-up as a "sideshow" that is politically motivated by the GOP. He claims that his... more
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Bob Beauprez (May 14, 2013)
A new language was introduced in Washington when President Obama began his first term in office. For a time, it flummoxed his observers, including many Republicans, who... more
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Bob Beauprez (May 11, 2013)
Finally, someone other than only Fox News seems to be paying attention to the still growing Benghazi cover-up. CBS's Bob Schieffer seems to have finally engaged... more
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Bob Beauprez (May 08, 2013)
U.S. Special Operations forces in Libya were on the way to the airport to board a Libyan government plane to Benghazi but were told "you can't go now; you... more
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Bob Beauprez (May 06, 2013)
"If the House report provides an accurate and complete depiction of the emails, it is clear that senior administration officials engaged in a wholesale rewriting of... more
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Bob Beauprez (May 05, 2013)
"They're making up for all the mistakes they made with excuse."
In this space over the last two days, we have focused on the three part series by Fox... more
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Bob Beauprez (May 04, 2013)
Yesterday we posted the first of a three part report by Fox News regarding the assault on the U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi, Libya last September. ... more
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Bob Beauprez (May 03, 2013)
It has been nearly eight months since Ambassador Chris Stevens, his diplomatic aid Sean Smith, and former Navy SEALS Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty we're killed in a... more
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Bob Beauprez (May 01, 2013)
Two weeks after the Boston Marathon bombing we are still learning new information - and generating new questions. The following article by Valery Dzutsev published... more
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Bob Beauprez (Apr 28, 2013)
An enraged Barack Obama lashed out at Congress and "willing liars" who defeated efforts to expand federal gun control laws. Obama and Joe Biden spent weeks... more
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Bob Beauprez (Apr 23, 2013)
Something to think about:
April 15: A lot of questions are being raised about the Boston Marathon bombers: Why were Chechen nationals given asylum? Why was... more
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Bob Beauprez (Apr 20, 2013)
Tax Freedom Day is the day when the nation as a whole has earned enough money to pay off its total tax bill for the year. Each Year, the Tax Foundations... more
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Bob Beauprez (Apr 19, 2013)
The same government that controls the supply of money, that makes and enforces the rules for the financial industry, is now also a larger supplier of consumer credit than... more
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Bob Beauprez (Apr 15, 2013)
For a country that prides itself on American ingenuity and the free enterprise system to solve problems and create new products, the recent shift to a command-and-control... more
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Bob Beauprez (Apr 14, 2013)
It was certainly painful enough during these Apocalyptic Sequester Times to learn a few weeks back that VP Joe Biden's one night stay in Paris in early February cost... more
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Bob Beauprez (Apr 12, 2013)
The Obama Budget arrived yesterday on Capitol Hill. The House has already debated five different budget proposals and adopted the plan introduced by Budget Committee... more
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Bob Beauprez (Apr 10, 2013)
Four years ago, my remarkably prescient wife warned, "You just watch, one day he will go after our retirement accounts." The "he" she was... more
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Bob Beauprez (Apr 09, 2013)
To: The US House of Representatives
Subject: The Benghazi attacks on 9/11/ 2012
The undersigned are a representative group of 700 retired Military Special... more
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Bob Beauprez (Apr 07, 2013)
I don't think I'm wrong about this: The collapse of the sub-prime mortgage market precipitated the economic downturn in 2008. Years of continually relaxed... more
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Bob Beauprez (Apr 06, 2013)
There is no way to put a happy face on it. The March 2013 jobs report is very bad news. While the civilian non-institutional population increased by 167,000... more
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Bob Beauprez (Apr 04, 2013)
Out of the White House comes a Presidential Proclamation that seems totally appropriate for the first of April – except it's not a joke. Barack Obama... more
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Bob Beauprez (Apr 03, 2013)
The word “gasoline” no longer characterizes the stuff we put into our cars. Due to regulations forced on the refining industry, “Frankenol” might... more
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Bob Beauprez (Mar 31, 2013)
On August 7, 2009 Barack Obama thumped his chest in the Rose Garden and proclaimed "We've rescued our economy from catastrophe." Supposedly, the... more
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Bob Beauprez (Mar 30, 2013)
A WTHR-TV Indianapolis investigative report exposes a fraudulent scheme wherein the IRS is sending $4.2 billion per year to illegal immigrants as an "additional child... more
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Bob Beauprez (Mar 29, 2013)
They passed it, and sure enough, we're finding out what's in it. And, the news isn't getting any better for ObamaCare.
The following... more
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Bob Beauprez (Mar 24, 2013)
"When is President Obama going to get some credit – and this is like Rodney Dangerfield – when's he going to get some credit for this amazing... more
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Bob Beauprez (Mar 23, 2013)
Last month, the Obama Administration moved forward with new Medicare spending cuts that few outside ardent industry observers noticed. If put into place, however, these... more
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Bob Beauprez (Mar 17, 2013)
"In short, this document gives voters no reason to believe that Democrats have a viable plan for — or even a responsible public assessment of — the... more
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Bob Beauprez (Mar 14, 2013)
Four days after slamming the doors of the White House closed, Barack "It's-not-my-fault" Obama says he's going to ask the Secret Service if to... more
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Bob Beauprez (Mar 13, 2013)
Stacked here are every page of Obamacare regulations published through last week. The newest ones are the stack at the bottom. On the chair, next to the stack is the... more
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Bob Beauprez (Mar 05, 2013)
In the hours leading up to the "Sequester" kicking in late last Friday, President Obama clung to his familiar refrain. In speech after endless speech,... more
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Bob Beauprez (Mar 03, 2013)
Americans historically have been the can-do people. Even in the darkest of times, Americans manage to see their glass as more than half full. Seemingly woven into our DNA... more
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Bob Beauprez (Feb 25, 2013)
It looks like the radical environmental left may have to find a new favorite dirty four letter word. Scientists at Ohio State University have announced the discovery... more
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Bob Beauprez (Feb 09, 2013)
President Barack Obama was nowhere to be found the long and fatal night of September 11, 2012 when Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were... more
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Bob Beauprez (Feb 03, 2013)
Memo to the President: In case just for a moment you really do wonder why businesses are not expanding, why their anxiety level is high, why the sense of uncertainty... more
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Bob Beauprez (Jan 31, 2013)
As the Senate prepares to hold a January 31 confirmation hearing for their former colleague Chuck Hagel to be the next Secretary of Defense, an alarming paradox has... more
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Bob Beauprez (Jan 30, 2013)
On Jan. 21, the very day America learned that three of its citizens had been killed in a hostage-taking at a Saharan natural gas facility, President Obama was sworn in for... more
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Bob Beauprez (Jan 22, 2013)
Roe v. Wade, the SCOTUS decision that legalized abortion in the United States, marks a dubious 40th anniversary on Tuesday, January 22, 2013. According to published... more
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Bob Beauprez (Jan 21, 2013)
The Heritage Foundation didn't invent conservative principles, but since 1973 the Washington based think tank can take credit for providing the salt to the life of the modern... more
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Bob Beauprez (Jan 17, 2013)
A recently published report by Egypt's Rose El-Youssef magazine identifies six American Islamist activists that are connected to the Obama Administration as... more
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Bob Beauprez (Jan 12, 2013)
The Defense Department "Sequester" – a budget gimmick originally described as "ridiculous" by Harry Reid and the President's Chief of Staff – has become a Gordian Knot that... more
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Bob Beauprez (Jan 10, 2013)
The Associated Press is reporting that Ali Harzi, a 26 year old Tunisian linked to the assassination attack in Benghazi, Libya that resulted in the death of U.S. Ambassador... more
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Bob Beauprez (Jan 08, 2013)
Easily duped, millions of voters dutifully believed Barack Obama's and the Democrats' campaign rhetoric that they only wanted to raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires... more