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 [...]

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 Campaign Committee [...]

By Roy Beck, Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 10:20 AM EST – posted on NumbersUSA Nobel-award winning economist Paul Krugman can’t figure it out. So, I doubt that he or any of the other hot-shot business and academic experts at Pres. Obama’s jobs summit Thursday will bring up the fact that hundreds of thousands additional Americans [...]

Justice Dept. Says Acorn Can Be Paid By CHARLIE SAVAGE WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has concluded that the Obama administration can lawfully pay the community group Acorn for services provided under contracts signed before Congress banned the government from providing money to the group. The department’s conclusion, laid out in a recently disclosed five-page [...]