President’s $1.1M “Stagecoach” Made in Canada
President Barack Obama has been traveling in style — Canadian style — while riding through the Midwest to talk about creating jobs in America. TheNew York Post reported Wednesday that...
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ATF Supervisors of Botched Gun Sting Get Promoted
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (still known as ATF) has come under fire for promoting three supervisors of a sting operation that led to the...
Vaccination Controversy Follows Perry on Campaign Trail
Controversy over an executive order issued by Rick Perry in 2007 is following the Texas Governor on the presidential campaign trail. In New Hampshire on Saturday and in Iowa...
Media Mostly Silent on Ron Paul’s Surging Candidacy
A headline on the Politico website told the story — or, more accurately, the part of the story Politico and much of the rest of the news media want...
Pawlenty Earliest Casualty of Ames Straw Poll
A straw poll shows which way the wind is blowing and for Tim Pawlenty (left), it was an ill wind in Ames, Iowa, Saturday that that blew the former...
The Berlin Wall, Hiding Shame
On June 15, 1961, Walter Ulbricht, the communist ruler of East Germany (known officially as the German Democratic Republic) held a press conference in East Berlin to promote a...
GOP Presidential Candidate Tim Pawlenty
In this year’s summer of discontent, as the nation faced a possible government shutdown in the battle over the debt ceiling, presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty was assuring voters he...
The Fed to the Rescue? Not Likely
"The Fed spoke and financial markets rallied," began the Associated Press report on how the stock market responded after the policy-making panel of the Federal Reserve Board issued a...
Texas Governor Perry About to Enter GOP Race
Texas Governor Rick Perry will try to take a share of the spotlight shining on the Ames Straw Poll in Iowa on Saturday and direct it to the East...
GOP Presidential Candidate Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann is hoping to become the first presidential candidate to go directly from the House of Representatives to the White House since James Garfield made the leap in...
S&P Downgrade Sets Off Alarm Bells in Europe
Investors will be anxiously watching when the New York Stock Exchange market opens Monday morning to see what effect Standard and Poor's downgrade of the U.S. credit rating will...
Cost of War Brought Home by Deaths in Afghanistan
While much of the nation's news for the past several weeks has been focused on the national debt, the killing of 30 U.S. and seven Afghan troops, along with...
Economist Says National Debt Really $211 Trillion
If a $14.3 trillion national debt sounds like a staggering sum, economist Lawrence Kotlikoff's estimate of the nation's real long-term indebtedness might bowl you over. Kotlikoff, who was a...
Higher “Ed” Could be Next Bubble to Burst
While Standard and Poor's downgrade of the U.S. government's credit rating has drawn much attention in the last few days, a generally overlooked report by Moody's Investment Services on the...
Debt Will Grow under ‘Budget Control Act”
Amid all the sound and fury and the "high noon" drama surrounding the debt-limit deadline and the passing of a deficit reduction measure this week, one discomforting fact emerged:...
“Budget Control Act” Rallies Lobbyists Against Spending Cuts
Lobbyists will be busier than ever in the next weeks and months ahead, trying to influence both the makeup and the recommendations of the new "supercommittee" that is supposed...
Controversial Agreement: Mexican Trucks to Haul Goods Throughout U.S.
Mexican trucks may begin hauling freight throughout the United States by the end of this month or early September under a bilateral trade agreement that resolves a long-standing trade...
Foreign Intervention: “Moral” Attacks?
When Chalmers Johnson, a retired Asian scholar and former Naval officer during the Korean War, visited Japan in the mid-1990s, he was surprised to discover 38 U.S. bases on...
Gang of Six Plan: Spending Cuts or Wish List?
The bi-partisan "Gang of Six" plan, billed as a $3.7 trillion deficit-reduction package, might better be described as a bi-partisan wish list. Rather than call for reductions in or elimination...
Bachmann, Paul Vote Against “Cut, Cap and Balance” Bill
Representatives Ron Paul of Texas and Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, the only presidential candidates among current members of Congress, broke with almost all of their Republican colleagues in the...