Monday, 01 Feb 2010 02:44 PM
While President Barack Obama is proposing to cut some taxes for companies that hire workers, his budget would raise a host of other taxes on businesses and wealthy individuals.
Obama’s budget would extend his signature Making Work Pay tax credit — $400 for individuals, $800 for a couple filing jointly — [...]
By Ian Swanson – 01/12/10 09:44 AM ET
U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue warned the U.S. faces a double-dip recession because of the taxes and regulations under consideration by the Democratic Congress and President Barack Obama.
“Congress, the administration and states must recognize that our weak economy [...]
Friday, 08 Jan 2010 07:15 PM
WASHINGTON – He says “the buck stops with me,” but nearly a year into office President Barack Obama is still blaming a lot of the nation’s troubles — the economy, terrorism, health care — on George W. Bush.
Over and over, Obama keeps reminding Americans of the mess he [...]
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Last week, the FBI issued its preliminary 2009 crime report, showing that the number of murders in the first half of 2009 decreased 10 percent compared to the first half of 2008. If the trend holds for the remainder of 2009, it will be the single greatest one-year decrease in the number [...]
By Tony Romm – 12/30/09 01:37 PM ET
Democratic strategists Wednesday asserted President Barack Obama “has been far more aggressive in fighting al Qaeda” than the previous administration .
In an e-mail this afternoon to supporters — which incidentally excoriated Republicans for politicizing the attempted bombing of Flight 253 — the Democratic Congressional [...]
With credit tight and consumers still pinching their pennies, many business owners find they can’t go on.
By Nathan Olivarez-GilesDecember 22, 2009
The Obama administration’s new plan to give a boost to small businesses reflects continued trouble in that sector, which is facing new failures even as much of the nation’s economy is stabilizing.
As credit lines [...]
By JOSH KRAUSHAAR
Rep. Parker Griffith, a freshman Democrat from Alabama, will announce today that he’s switching parties to become a Republican.
According to two senior GOP aides familiar with the decision, the announcement will take place this afternoon in Griffith’s district in northern Alabama.
Griffith’s party switch comes on the eve of a pivotal [...]
By Noel Sheppard
Created 2009-12-12 16:31
A sign reading “Welcome to Obamaville Colorado’s Fastest Growing Community” appeared at a homeless tent city in Colorado Springs this week.
You probably didn’t hear about it because outside of two Colorado television stations nobody found this newsworthy.
By contrast, when word got out in March of a tent city in Sacramento, California, [...]
by Publius.
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) released the following statement today regarding the report commissioned by ACORN released by Scott Harshbarger report on ACORN:
“How surprising is it that a report paid for by ACORN exonerates them? There are numerous federal and state investigations currently underway that should ultimately [...]
December 4, 2009
No, it wouldn’t do anything for the environment.
But two Hollywood conservatives (yes, there are some) have called upon the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to rescind the prestigious, profitable gold Oscar statuette that it gave ex-Vice President Al Gore et al two years ago for the environmental movie [...]