Fear that the economy might fall back into recession is compelling Congress to extend unemployment benefits and incentives for homebuying that lawmakers hope will help sustain growth.
Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official, not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate but simply one of the many “czars” appointed by the president, could arbitrarily cut the pay of executives in private businesses by 50 percent or 90 percent?
Christina Romer, chairperson of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, said Thursday that the $194 billion already spent from the $787 billion economic stimulus gave a jolt to the economy that contributed to growth in the second and third quarters of the year.
The Rutherford Institute has launched its annual “ABC’s of the Constitution in the Classroom” campaign, a national effort to educate students, parents, teachers and school administrators about how to uphold the U.S. Constitution in the public schools and how to avoid censoring student religious expression.
Even those who oppose decriminalization of marijuana, even for limited purposes, have reason to applaud the U.S. Department of Justice’s new policy on marijuana prosecutions for its consistency with principles of federalism.
A trends forecaster says the current economic “rebound” from last winter’s Wall Street collapse of banks, insurance companies and automobile manufacturers is an artificial blip created by “phantom money printed out of thin air backed by nothing.”
Candidate Obama charmed inexperienced, poorly educated youth and disaffected elders with promises of an undefined abstraction called change. That change, we now can see, was to be forcible imposition of Obama’s true religion, secular socialism.
Military Brass Expected To Fall On Their Swords To Cover Obama’s Inept Afghan War Making? - Military Brass Expected To Fall On Their Swords To Cover Obama’s Inept Afghan War Making?
If one really wants to know what the democrat controlled congress, senate and White House thinks of our elderly in this country all they have to do is take a close look at their actions in just the past two months. In September 2009 it was announced that social security recipients would not be receiving their cost of living increase, this is the first time since 1975 that they will not get an increase and those who participate in Medicare part D will see their social security payments drop about $2.00 because of an increase in premiums. After all of those years of hearing how the republicans would rape social security and Medicare all it took was nine short months for those who were accusing everyone else to do it.
Faced with a need to scrounge for revenue to fund his plan for healthcare, President Barack Obama and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus have come up with a brilliant new idea: Tax the sick!
Government to Force H1N1 Flu vaccinations? - If there was any doubt in your mind that America has a government out of control, then you have only to look to what the US Department of Health and Human Services is on the cusp of doing… or TRYING to do!
While the White House claims an urgency to pass healthcare reform, and while Christina Romer, chairwoman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, tries to convince the American people that the $787 billion stimulus plan is working by siting things such as the $25 a week increase in unemployment checks the now 9.4% unemployed in our country are getting, the facts prove otherwise.
Last January, Rush Limbaugh shocked the liberal establishment, and much of the world, when he flatly assessed America’s prospects under the Obama Administration with the words “I hope he fails.” In the minds of myopic leftists who cannot comprehend the possibility of anything succeeding outside of taxpayer funded government programs, Limbaugh was expressing his desire for America itself to fail.
It is a familiar question; why eight years after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, haven’t we found Osama bin Laden? And now the greater question before the President and the nation is why are we still in Afghanistan?
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