Denmark Takes EU Rotating Presidency with Many Handicaps

Denmark takes up the rotating EU presidency as the year begins, succeeding Poland. Denmark and its left-of-center government are taking the helm in most inauspicious circumstances. The main order of ...

Obama: A Very Beatable President – But the GOP can still blow it

We are a little over 10 months from Election Day, and the Christmas hope of many conservatives is that voters next November will deliver a decisive rebuke to President Barack ...

Cash for Clunkers Gimmick? Former Obama Adviser Wouldn’t Do It Again

It sounds like a former Obama Administration official is changing his tune on two of the President’s early stimulus efforts. Austan Goolsbee, former chairman of President Obama’s Council of Economic ...

Greenjobs-Gate: FBI Probes Obama’s Connection to Solyndra

by Larry O’Connor As the nation tunes in to hear President Barack Obama’s “Jobs Speech” this Thursday, it would be instructive to learn how the last bundle of Keynesian billions ...

President Obama’s Stimulus Speech – The Sequel

President Obama tonight pitched Stimulus 2.0 to a reluctant Congress and an angry electorate.  The President rolled out his “American Jobs Act” and demanded repeatedly for Congress to “pass right away.”  The ...

FHFA Sues Banks to Recover Housing Bond Losses: Less Than Meets the Eye?

News reports say that the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) will sue about 12 major banks in order to recover some of the losses that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ...

Yikes! Look who just endorsed Obama for 4 more years

By Aaron Klein It may be early in the campaign season, but the Communist Party USA already has seen fit to endorse Barack Obama for the 2012 election. While noting ...

Obama Stimulus Funded ‘Guns-to-Drug-Lords’

Just a day after U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., called for Attorney General Eric Holder’s removal, alleging a White House connection to the “Project Gunrunner” that allowed weapons to be ...

High Speed Funding in President’s Budget Means More Waste of Taxpayer Dollars

Elected officials in Washington finally seem to get it that something must be done to reduce federal spending. Last week, House Republicans unveiled a plan to cut $74 billion from ...

No Bailouts for Government Unions

New York City’s Department of Investigation (DOI) announced Friday that it is looking into reports that some Sanitation Department supervisors told workers to slow their snow removal efforts as a ...