Huge U.S. Iraq Embassy to Increase Staff, Budget
Observers might think that the largest, most expensive embassy ever built — the $750 million, heavily fortified U.S. embassy in Baghdad — would be more than sufficient to sustain...
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Boehner to Face Primary Challenge from Pro-Life Tea Party Activist
Next to President Barack Obama, probably the last person in Washington who expected a challenger in the 2012 primary election was House Speaker John Boehner. The Ohio Republican, one...
McConnell: Obama’s Jobs Bill “Political,” Won’t “Actually Work”
Taking a notably different tack from fellow Republicans in the House of Representatives, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) “fiercely attacked President Barack Obama’s new jobs plan Tuesday,” according...
Obama Sends $447 Billion Jobs Bill to Congress
As promised in his address to a joint session of Congress last week, President Barack Obama on Monday sent his proposed economic plan, the American Jobs Act, to Capitol...
New York Republicans Stall Implementation of ObamaCare Exchanges
When President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law in 2010, he surely did not foresee the resistance with which his new law would...
The Military-industrial Complexs War on Defense Cuts
The military-industrial complex is pulling out all the stops to ensure that not one dime of its vast federal largess is taken away even as the nation faces nearly...
Obamas Jobs Plan: Tax Less, Spend More, and Cut Nothing
“I am sending this Congress a plan that you should pass right away. It’s called the American Jobs Act. There should be nothing controversial about this legislation,” President Barack Obama...
Romneys Economic Program: Tinkering, Not Fundamental Reform
Former Massachusetts Governor and 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney unveiled his economic agenda Tuesday, beating President Barack Obama to the punch by two days. (Obama will present his...
The Islamic Republic of Libya, Courtesy of U.S.A.
Recent reports suggest that Libya is poised to become the third Islamic state established in the last decade with the help of the United States. On August 26 The...
Court Case Reveals Details of CIA Rendition Program
“Gulags, concentration camps, torture centers — indeed, wars of aggression and domination — are not simply the creation of a few leaders at the top,” observes Chris Floyd. “They...
Now Opposed to ObamaCare, Perry Once Praised HillaryCare
Was Texas Governor Rick Perry for ObamaCare before he was against it? Today Perry rails against the healthcare law, calling it “the closest this country has ever come to...
Did Ron Paul Force Obama to Reschedule a Speech?
Who says Ron Paul can’t beat Barack Obama? The Texas Congressman’s threat to prevent the President’s upcoming speech to Congress from occurring the same night as a Republican presidential...
Obamas Tax-guzzling Transportation Bill
Across the fruited plain, the average price of a gallon of gasoline is $3.62, a full dollar higher than it was just one year ago. Of that $3.62, 18.4...
Democrats Propose Toothless Balanced Budget Amendment
One of the terms of the recent debt ceiling deal between Congress and the White House was that Congress would vote on, but not necessarily pass, a Balanced Budget...
Feds Raid Gibson Guitar to Save Endangered Foreign Trees
At approximately 8:45 a.m. on August 24, federal agents raided Gibson Guitar Corporation facilities in Nashville and Memphis, making off with an estimated $1 million worth of Gibson property....
Education Secretary Makes Case for Abolishing His Department
Rarely does a government official call for himself — and his entire department — to be canned. But that is, in effect, what Secretary of Education Arne Duncan did...
The Federal Bureau of Instigation
Many observers have long detected a fishy odor about the domestic terrorism plots the Federal Bureau of Investigation has busted, often to great fanfare, over the last decade. Frequently...
Obama Administration Gives Taxpayers 112 Million Reasons to Grouse About Wasteful Spending
For all its posturing about cutting spending, the Obama administration seems to have little difficulty finding cash to reward its friends in the environmental movement. Solar energy, despite its...
U.S., Afghanistan Close to Deal Keeping U.S. Forces There Through 2024
Although the Obama administration has made much of the fact that U.S. forces are scheduled to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014, it clearly has no intention of...
Obama Administration Subsidizes Solar Energy Via Loans to India
Despite its less-than-stellar record of picking winning solar energy companies — subsidizing, for instance, Solyndra of California and Evergreen Solar of Massachusetts — the Obama administration is determined to...
