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Using the Food Crisis

According to internationally acclaimed author and highly regarded expert Lester Brown (pictured), writing in the January 10 issue of Foreign Policy magazine: ...

Bob Adelmann July 14, 2011

Food Prices Rocket

Bob Adelmann July 13, 2011

Eighty-year-old Dottie Bell is a volunteer at the Community Market food bank in Opelika, Alabama, and every day she sees the impact of...

Obama Administration Attempts to Revise Mortgage Program

Raven Clabough July 8, 2011

Seemingly unaware of the nation’s debt crisis, the federal government is attempting to revamp its foreclosure-prevention program to make it easier for out-of-work...

Tiny Alto, Texas, Not the First to Mothball Its Police Dept

Kelly Holt July 7, 2011

The city council of tiny Alto, Texas — population 1,200, about 140 miles southeast of Dallas — shuttered its police department on June...

Obama Administration Proposes Doubling Gas Mileage Standards by 2025

Michael Tennant July 5, 2011

If the Obama administration gets its way, you can kiss your next SUV — and possibly your life, if you're involved in an...

Fueling High Gas Prices

Brian Farmer June 23, 2011

On the day President Obama took office in January of 2009, regular unleaded gasoline was selling nationally at an average price of $1.83...

“Government Motors” Gives Taxpayers the Crankshaft

Michael Tennant June 13, 2011

General Motors and Chrysler, so the story goes, have repaid the dollars the federal government loaned them to keep them from going belly...

Pension Woes of Alabama Town a Warning to Others

Raven Clabough June 13, 2011

The city of Prichard, Alabama, is the best proof that more states need Governors such as New Jersey’s Chris Christie, who is willing...

Obama’s Dodgy Remarks on Auto Industry Bailout

Michael Tennant June 8, 2011

President Barack Obama has lately been touting the government’s takeover of two of the Big Three automakers as an unqualified success. This is...

Economists Tell Congress to Enact Spending Cuts

Thomas R. Eddlem May 14, 2011

Economists Richard M. Ebeling and Matthew J. Slaughter testified before the House Monetary Policy Subcommittee May 11 and agreed that spending must be...

Fannie and Freddie: Still Mortgaging America’s Future to Stay in Business

Michael Tennant May 7, 2011

Need more proof — besides the staggering national debt — that the federal government is totally incompetent in fiscal matters? Three years after...

Tornadoes Worsen Economy of Alabama, Other Southern States

Raven Clabough May 4, 2011

The state of Alabama was already struggling with high unemployment when it was pummeled by tornadoes last week. As businesses and homes have...

Bernanke Press Conference Proclaims Inflation Not a Problem

Thomas R. Eddlem April 28, 2011

Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke told reporters at the Fed's first ever press conference April 27 that the Fed's Open Market Committee will...