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Obama Fires Inspector Who Found Misuse

President Barack Obama has fired the inspector general who found misuse of AmeriCorps funds at a nonprofit education group headed by Sacramento Mayor...

Steven J. DuBord June 12, 2009

Obama Promotes Healthcare Reform

Steven J. DuBord June 12, 2009

As part of his efforts to promote healthcare reform, President Barack Obama attended a town hall meeting at Southwest High School in Green...

A Primer on the Illuminati

Denise Behreandt June 12, 2009

Type?? “Illuminati” into an Internet search engine and you will wind up with an impossible aggregation too numerous and contradictory to be useful....

Climate Rules Will Kill Firm Says Lion Oil Exec

Ed Hiserodt June 11, 2009

Steve Cousins, vice president of refining for Lion Oil Company, an 80-year-old Arkansas-based refiner, testified that the company would have to “shutter operations”...

Obama’s Energy Plan

Ed Hiserodt June 11, 2009

Many factors have enabled the United States to become the wealthiest nation on Earth: limited government, secure property rights, a free-market capitalist economic...

May Deficit Was Nearly $190 Billion

Steven J. DuBord June 11, 2009

The Treasury Department reported on June 10 that the federal budget deficit for May was just shy of $190 billion, and the total...

Administration to Reform CEO Compensation

Steven J. DuBord June 11, 2009

On June 10, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announced several ways that the Obama administration intends to change corporate practices for determining executive compensation....

More Corporate Welfare: “Cash For Clunkers”

Thomas R. Eddlem June 11, 2009

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a $4 billion “Cash for Clunkers” bill on June 9 that is aimed at both increasing fuel...

Ron Paul’s Bill H.R. 1207 to Audit the Fed

Ann Shibler June 11, 2009

Bill H.R. 1207 to audit the Federal Reserve now has 200 cosponsors. That’s 45 percent of House members, closing in on a whopping...

“Ten Thousand Commandments” of Federal Regulation

Steven J. DuBord June 10, 2009

On May 28, the Competitive Enterprise Institute released the 2009 edition of their report on the impact of federal regulation. Entitled Ten Thousand...