1 day ago by Janet

For decades it was a common practice that Congress has ensured that federal spending rises inexorably by guaranteeing that every budget item increases automatically each year. And if anyone spoke against this, they were soon labeled heartless. Finally on Friday, the House passed, on a practically pa ...

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3 days ago by Mockarena

A clever and competent reader sent me this video of Rep. McClintock asking some tough questions to the CBO Director yesterday, and it’s McClintock at his very very best. It’s almost enough to make me think ...

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3 days ago by Daniel Schuman

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3 days ago by Daniel Schuman

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4 days ago by John Smithson

From congressman's Bob Latta's office, we have this admonition and commentary: Help House Republicans pass 27 jobs bills Commentary Posted by Latta on February 02, 2012 Data reported by POLITICO shows our economy isn't improving. • The Federal Reserve has announced it will keep interest rates low th ...

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4 days ago by raemd95

It was somewhere between hilarious and pathetic to watch Republicans respond to the positive jobs report last Friday. Some friends and I were counting the minutes until some Republican started casting aspersions on the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), which compiles and releases the data. Sure enou ...

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5 days ago by Phillip Nones

For years, it was a truism so well understood it could be etched in stone: A government job was one where the pay wasn’t all that great … but the benefits were wonderful and there was good job security. The accepted tradeoff was between receiving lower salary compensation in the public sector in exc ...

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5 days ago by winterbanyan

Noontime News is a snapshot of our RSS feeds from the noon (Eastern time) hour. Republican Indiana Secretary Of State Convicted Of Voter Fraud Though President Ronald Reagan called the right to vote the “crown jewel of American liberties,” many Republicans around the country have begun demanding inc ...

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6 days ago by John Wiley

Obama and his cronies in the media have put a smily face on our economic outlook; however, if one looks at the report of the Congressional Budget Office, they paint a much different picture. "Rook" has some thoughts on it. Key Points in CBO’s Economic Forecast - Washington Wire - WSJ 1) Growth will ...

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7 days ago by Brian

Posted by Brian The media campaign to reelect Barack Obama has begun in earnest. While touting a new unemployment rate of 8.3%, the media fail to report, if they are even interested in reporting the truth, that to get to that number the Bureau of Labor Statistics had to eliminate 1.2 million people ...

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