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...
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Bipartisan Chicanery in Budget Passage
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...
Euro-Socialists to Obama: Cool It on Spending
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...
GOP Budget: $500 Billion-plus Annual Deficits
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...
Kennedy’s Serve America Act Passes Congress
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...
Not One Terrorist Plot Foiled by Torture of Abu Zubaida
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...
GOP Budget: More Credit-card Socialism
"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...
Obama’s Charm Offensive for Big Deficits
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...
Most Guantanamo Detainees Innocent?
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...
Is Anonymous Criticism of a Clinton Legal?
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...
CFR Corporate Members Get Lion’s Share of Bailout Funds
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...
Even CBO Deficit Projections Optimistic
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...
AntiWar.com’s Garris: More War Under Obama
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...
AntiWar.com’s Garris: The Burden of Empire
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...
Obama Budget: A New Era of Irresponsibility
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....