What to Expect From the New Congress
The party numbers are pretty much the same, but the congressional Democrats are far more liberal, and the Republicans are much closer to traditional constitutionalism. ...
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Geithner as Buzz Lightyear on National Debt: To Infinity, and Beyond
President Obama's Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has embraced the “Buzz Lightyear” debt strategy to overcome the fiscal crisis known as the “fiscal cliff”: to infinity and beyond. Geithner told...
Unhappy Veterans Day: Court Rules Veteran May Not Sue His Gov’t Torturers
U.S. Navy Veteran Donald Vance and fellow FBI informant Nathan Ertel are not entitled to sue their U.S. government torturers, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh District...
The Ron Paul Revolution Moves to Congress
Libertarian-leaning Republican Congressman Ron Paul lost his bid for the Republican presidential nomination earlier this year, but a number of his acolytes ran for Congress as Republicans and won...
Obama Reelected, Democrats Keep Senate, GOP Keeps House
President Obama was reelected by the Electoral College after Tuesday's election, also winning the popular vote by around 2.6 million votes. Democrats will keep control of the U.S. Senate,...
Boston Fed Chairman Calls for More Inflation, Even If It Doesn’t Help Economy
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President and CEO Eric S. Rosengren told a Babson College audience November 1 he favored the Federal Reserve continuing QE3 policies at least until...
Desperation: Rep. DeFazio’s Campaign Engages in Political “Identity Theft”
Oregon liberal Congressman Peter DeFazio has long posed as a congressional champion of political campaign “reform,” but faced with his first serious reelection effort in more than a decade,...
CNN: Obama Deficit Math Doesn’t Add Up
Erin Burnett took only four minutes on October 23 to destroy the Obama administration's claim that the President's budget plan would eliminate $4 trillion in deficit spending over the...
“Bayonet” Policy: Obama and Romney Debate, Peace Candidates Blacked Out
President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney engaged in a nationally televised foreign policy debate Monday, October 22, and agreed to continue aggressive American military involvement around the...
Presidential Debate: Obama More Combative, No Gaffes, No “Winner”
Both Democrat and Republican spin-meisters are claiming victory for their candidate in the October 16 Presidential town hall-format debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, a contest noted for its lack of...
Paul Ryan Sinks Himself in VP Debate With Joe Biden
Congressman Paul Ryan spoke clearly during Thursday's vice presidential debate at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. But he failed to articulate any substantial differences between the Republican political team...
Stewart v. O’Reilly: The Bumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium
The highly-hyped “Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium” debate on October 6 between Fox News Channel personality Bill O'Reilly and Comedy Central funny man Jon Stewart proved a nearly perfect...
Mitt Romney Criticizes Fed — Almost
The Republican Party standard-bearer for President Mitt Romney edged up toward criticism of the Federal Reserve Bank's “quantitative easing” in an interview for the October 7 edition of NBC's...
Romney-Obama Debate: Deficit Math Doesn’t Add Up for Either Candidate
The first presidential debate of the 2012 post-primary election season revealed that both Democratic incumbent President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts, would increase...
Brown-Warren Debate Reveals What’s Wrong With Both National Parties
Massachusetts contenders for the U.S. Senate, incumbent Republican Scott Brown and Harvard Professor Elizabeth Warren, debated October 1 and gave a stark reminder of what is wrong with both...