Stimulus Results: Unemployment Soars
“The U.S. may suffer further job losses in the coming months” began the April 3 Bloomberg.com story on federal government reports that the U.S. economy shed an estimated 633,000...
“The U.S. may suffer further job losses in the coming months” began the April 3 Bloomberg.com story on federal government reports that the U.S. economy shed an estimated 633,000...
Bipartisan chicanery marked passage of the federal budget through Congress last week, with the Democrats using statistical deceit to hide deficit figures and the Republicans allowing the budget to...
How can you tell if a president is asking to spend too much money? (No, it’s not when his lips are moving, wise guy.) It’s when the president has...
A full week after House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) jumped in front of the cameras and proclaimed “here it is, Mr. President,” on the Republican budget alternative, the...
The New York Times calls the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act the "largest expansion of government-sponsored service programs since President John F. Kennedy first called for the creation...
Former President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have long claimed that "a great many" terrorist plots had been foiled by Bush administration's torture policies (they called...
"Two nights ago the president said, 'We haven't seen a budget yet out of Republicans.' Well, it's just not true because — here it is, Mr. President," House Minority...
President Barack Obama is in the middle of his national tour to convince the American public that “we’re doing everything we can to reduce that deficit.” President Obama has...
Lawrence B. Wilkerson served as chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, one of the senior Bush Administration officials that pushed the run-up to war in Iraq...
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed March 20 to hear a free speech case and will choose between defending the First Amendment and the McCain-Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of...
Newspapers are fixated upon $160 million in bonuses given to American International Group (AIG) executives. And it’s nice to know where the millions are going (note: the bonuses could...
The major media have widely reported that President Barack Obama has greatly underestimated the extent of the deficits to come, according to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis of...
President Obama’s plans are fast diverging from candidate Barack Obama’s campaign promises on Iraq, AntiWar.com co-founder Eric Garris tells The New American in an interview. The longtime libertarian political...
War means big government and an excuse to clamp down on constitutionally protected freedoms, AntiWar.com co-founder Eric Garris tells The New American in an interview. The longtime libertarian political...
President Barack Obama has just recently released his $3.55 trillion fiscal 2010 budget, and already there's full employment among all the people who matter to officials in Washington, D.C....