Saturday, February 19, 2011

Random Round-Up 02-19


President Obama Job Approval

Susan Rice's Illegitimate U.N. Folly AND UN-seemly Bam slam

House Roll Call: Spending Bill

Progressives In Front of WH Protest Effort Mad at Koch Brothers

GOP Defies Obama, Pushes Spending Cuts of $61 Billion Though House

The Importance of Fatherhood

TEACHERS IN WISCONSIN MAKE MORE THAN TWICE THE PER CAPITA INCOME OF THEIR FELLOW WISCONSINITES (UPDATED)

California’s Delta Smelt is Raising Your Food Prices

Students, faculty respond to CNN hire of local Tea Partier

Obama’s war on democracy. President’s campaign forces seize Wisconsin statehouse

ABC’s 1991 Outrageous Undercover Investigation of Crisis Pregnancy Centers

Fear of 'Catastrophic' Crash Rising Despite Bull Market

Michelle Obama Goes Skiing in Colorado

PBS Tweets Its Love for MoveOn.org Campaign Against Conservatives

Biden, wife spending holiday weekend in Fla. Keys



Networks that Railed Against Rhetoric of Tea Parties Offer No Comment on Hitler, Dictator Signs at Wis. Protests

Armed Services member: Emails point to illegal Pentagon lobbying

‘Financial Catastrophe Denialists’

Lara Logan and the Media Rules

House scales back mining protections, other enviro rules in spending bill

Another victory for science! House votes 244-179 to kill U.S. funding of UN IPCC! 'It no longer wishes to have the IPCC prepare its comprehensive international climate science assessments'

Environmentalist Fraud and Manslaughter

Retiring Boomers Find 401(k) Plans Fall Short

Churches Open Doors to Muslim Worship

Will Obama and Republicans reach a budget deal?

What Does Government Do? Apparently, cut checks.

Connecticut Attorney General Investigates Facebook Fraud

U.S. Has Cut Emissions ... Without Cap and Tax

Less Than Half of Southwest Border Secure, Government Report Says

Admissions Discrimination at Ohio State and Miami

The Sisterhood of Silence. A bad abortion clinic, a dead woman, and a wall of pro-choice denial.

GOP Spending Cuts Headed for Senate

Stimulus a Failure By Only Measure That Matters: Jobs

House Votes to Block Funds for Obamacare

Back in the Executive Branch, However

When the Cashier Asks for Your Zip Code

Ryan's Charge Up Entitlement Hill The GOP's fiscal leader explains why House Republicans will vote to reform Medicare and why the public is ready to listen.

States That Ignored Warnings on Unemployment Insurance Face Reckoning

Doctors Helping Teachers Lie about Being ‘Sick’

Freshmen spur GOP-run House on big spending cuts

Maddow messes up again - Rachel Maddow says Wisconsin is on track to have a budget surplus this year

Lila Rose among Deadly Thorns

Hundreds demonstrate for secular Tunisia

Looking dictators in the pocketbook

Millions of Dollars Owed Denied to Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup Crews

Green investment bank should make taxpayers see red

Documents Show Congressman David Wu's Staff “Threatened to Shut Down His Campaign

As the author over at Townhall.com put it, just remember this "protester" is teaching your children. "FOX LIES!!!" Reporter Confronts Disturbing WI Protester


BTW...in no MSM coverage I have seen is there ANY note that the crowd is "predominantly white".... Why is that?

There's still hope for dealing with our debt challenges

Immortal Fannie, Immortal Freddie The next bubble is built into our assumptions about housing ‘investments.

Teacher Resigns After Pleading Guilty to Prostitution

Illinois Home Schooling Bill Tabled -- But Fight Far From Over

Dems Ditch NASCAR Rep. Betty McCollum wants to yank $7 million a year in Pentagon funding for NASCAR sponsorships

Elections Have Consequences, BTW

[sigh] To Escape Blame, Be a Victim, Not a Hero, New Study Finds

Kill the Kill Switch!

More CR Amendments

Can Health-Care Waivers Be Justified?

Obama and unions: Many in labor movement frustrated with president

Lila Rose & the Planned Parenthood Vote

Big Union/Leftie Groups Round-Up 02-19



Wisconsin Updates

FDR's Ghost Is Smiling on Wisconsin's Governor

What's at Stake in Wisconsin's Budget Battle Who's in charge of our political system—voters or unions?

TEACHERS IN WISCONSIN MAKE MORE THAN TWICE THE PER CAPITA INCOME OF THEIR FELLOW WISCONSINITES (UPDATED)

Average MPS Teacher Compensation Tops $100k/year


Obama Offers Tactical Support to Unions in State Budget Battles

FDR vs. Wisconsin Teachers

"Teachers in the midwest (and elsewhere) are rejecting benefit plans that most workers in the private economy would love to have.

WI Gov To Teacher$' Union: "We're Making The Tough Decisions Now!"


Wisconsin governor: If the fugitive Dems don’t come back, I might have to cut funding for their staffs; Update: Assembly forced to recess due to threats

Teacher Resigns After Pleading Guilty to Prostitution

Illinois Home Schooling Bill Tabled -- But Fight Far From Over

Cain: ‘Ground Zero’


Fixed labor game is ending in Wisconsin. More states already are battling union bosses for democracy

Raging Wisconsin

Battle Fuels Wider War Over Labor, Spending

Breitbart: ‘America is going to be community-organized no more’


Wisconsin governor: If the fugitive Dems don’t come back, I might have to cut funding for their staffs. Hey, if they’re gone, who needs a staff?

Obama’s war on democracy. President’s campaign forces seize Wisconsin statehouse

Unions fuel Democratic Party financially

Tea Partiers strike back in Madison

Obama’s Union Involvement ‘Deeply Un-American’


Palin on Wis. Unions: ‘Wrong Fight at Wrong Time’

As Wisconsin Goes, so Goes the Nation

Wisconsin's Blow to Union Power

Governor McDonnell speaks out in support of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker


Poll: Public unions a hard sell

‘The New Wisconsin Idea’

A Picture Worth 1000 Truths


BTW...in no MSM coverage I have seen is there ANY note that the crowd is "predominantly white".... Why is that?

Obama and unions: Many in labor movement frustrated with president

As the author over at Townhall.com put it, just remember this "protester" is teaching your children. "FOX LIES!!!" Reporter Confronts Disturbing WI Protester


In Wisconsin, it's the unions vs. the people

A Watershed Moment for Public-Sector Unions

'On, Wisconsin!'

‘Winning the Future’ Means Winning in Madison

Wisc Gov Pushes Back Hard Against CBS Host’s Un-Fair Attack

Friday, February 18, 2011

Daily Round-Up 02-18



Virginia Lawmaker 'Likely' to Sue DHS Over Illegal Immigrant Data After Killing


AND THE GOOD NEWS IS...


House votes to overthrow 'czars'

Senate Democratic majority becoming more fragile

Special Elections in Connecticut Hold Possible National Significance

Congress Finally Earns Its Pay Unlike years past, the budget debates in the House were vigorous and democratic, not stage-managed by the leadership of the majority party.

Amendments Open Up Debate on House Floor

House Passes Amendment to Block Funds for Net Neutrality Order


GENERAL BAD BEHAVIOR


The case against public sector unionism

Police Refuse to Give Gun Possession License Because of “Association” with Criminals, New Jersey Courts Reverse

The left's rejection of democracy in Wisconsin

Multiculturalism Threatens America



The UN and the Obama Administration on the Wrong Side of History. Serving up Israel when the going gets tough is what Arab dictators and demagogues do at regular intervals. The United States should not join them.

Lost: The common good

Investigative spotlight turns on Army captain who helped bust counterfeiter

End Racial Preferences Now

Who's been overreaching?



America Quiet on the Execution of Afghan Christian Said Musa AND Re: America Quiet on the Execution of Afghan Christian Said Musa

CPAC Interview: How Public Sector Unions are Driving Us Bankrupt

For a sense of the kind of Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood wants, start with its motto.



AND THE GOOD GUYS ARE...


Wisc. Superintendent Tells Teachers to Get Back to School

Keep cool with ... Walker?

RSC: Keep On Cutting

Three’s Company: NJ, NH and RI Weigh Cigarette Tax CUTS

Mitch Daniels, thinking like a president



PLANNED PARENTHOOD/ABORTION SCANDAL


Meet Abby Johnson

House blocks federal aid for Planned Parenthood

Media Bias 02-18



The AP as Union Mouthpiece

Did an FCC official do work for PBS simultaneously?

AWOL Wisconsin Democrat calls CNN with list of demands

The Gray Lady Who Cried Wolf The New York Times tries its "civility" swindle again.



Media No Help When it Comes to Budget Cutting

Outrageous. CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Salon Editor Joan Walsh Smear Gateway Pundit & Common Sense

Juan Williams: Liberal attacks on black conservatives ’sickening’

An Open Letter to Mr. Daily Kos

FLASHBACK: Lawrence O’Donnell Says Steele “Dancing for His Masters”



Progressive Libtalker Mike Malloy Threatens Breitbart

House Passes Amendment to Block Funds for Net Neutrality Order

Pigs are flying - CNN Refuses to Cave to Media Matters’ Ongoing Crusade to Blacklist the Right

House votes to stop FCC funding for net neutrality

Junk Science 02-18


Sen. Inhofe turns tables on global warming ambushers — and gets it on tape [VIDEO]

15 groups unite to try and stop the EPA from funding nationwide E15

Enzi introduces bill to repeal incandescent light bulb ban

House votes to block EPA’s global warming power

House votes to block funding for EPA's greenhouse gas regulations

Congress to NASA: Study Space! (Not Climate. That’s Not Space.) The budget battle has come to NASA, where a massive amount of money is being spent on something that has nothing to do with NASA's mission

Green investment bank should make taxpayers see red

Calorie Labels on Menus Are Useless

Obama in Open Defiance of Courts and Constitutionality. AND Federal judge to Salazar: Stop stalling drilling permits

So much for Obama's scientific integrity - NRC Censors Flub Opportunity to Move Yucca Debate Forward

Obamacare 02-18


House Votes to Defund 'ObamaCare' in Burst of Activity on Spending Bill

House votes to block funds for health overhaul law

Health reform's central flaw: Too much power in one office

Justice Dept. Asks Judge to Clarify Health Care Ruling After Alaska Governor Refuses to Enact Law

Stopping ObamaCare’s Exchanges

EASY ACCESS, QUALITY CARE: The Role for Retail Health Clinics in New York

More on Obamacare Implementation

Administration asks judge to tell the states that healthcare law isn't optional

Lead Lawyer Challenging Obamacare Under Cyber Attack

Alaska governor refusing to enact health care law

Can Health-Care Waivers Be Justified? The power to waive or dispense with the law is dangerous, it cannot be delegated, and it is not cured by transparency.

The New York Times Publishes My Letter Replying to Its Editorial

Pathetic - Democrat suggests 'ObamaCare' rhetoric should be banned from House floor I haven't heard her suggest censoring RomneyCare.

In Economic Woes 02-18



A Clarifying Week

Shut Down the Government

Consumer prices show inflation turning up

The Frugal Dr. Is In


Obama's Louis XV budget

Prognosis: Inflation - Food, Oil and the Government's Printing Presses to Drive Prices Skyward

Cutting Spending Means More, Not Fewer Jobs

Boehner says any stopgap spending bill must trim federal budget further



No Substitute For Saving

In Taiwan - Prosecutors Office vows to crack down on food hoarding

Fannie Mae, wasting taxpayers' money and time

Time to Get Rid of the Corporate Income Tax?

AND


The Return of Stagflation?

The Destruction of Human Capital

Liberals Fight Bipartisan Effort on Social Security

Auto union must look out for companies, too

What Does $3.73 Trillion Buy You These Days?



Obama in Open Defiance of Courts and Constitutionality. AND Federal judge to Salazar: Stop stalling drilling permits

Lessons From Wisconsin: Big Government Handouts Promote Big Dependence

NYC mayor's early budget plan: Cut teaching jobs

The Good, Bad and Ugly of Inflation for Seniors

Many Bucks for Little Bang

Don't Fight the Fed AND Fed, Lately a Friend of Stock Market, May Become a Foe

Three’s Company: NJ, NH and RI Weigh Cigarette Tax CUTS

Responsible Adults Cannot Ignore These Numbers

‘Never, Ever, Ever, Reduces the Debt’

France: Food-Price Rises Fuel Risk of New Riots

Hungry for a Solution to Rising Food Prices. Even if the global agriculture crisis doesn't turn cataclysmic, it represents a massive test

Bad Politician Bad 02-18


President Obama Job Approval

Oh good Obama's getting involved. DNC, OfA aiding WI union protests AND Is This How a President Should Act?

Obama Turns His Back on Israel

Barney Frank is a hypocritical sack of pathetic delusions mixed with undeserved ego and horse manure. Frank blasts 'orgy of self-congratulation' on CR deal: 'I either explain or object' What a tool.



Obama in Open Defiance of Courts and Constitutionality.

Krugman and Obama on Infant Nutrition

The birther movement is President Obama’s fault



Who’s Polarizing America?

Too Much Energy in the Executive Remember when Obama accused Bush of grabbing power?

Sounds like Pelosi is just attempting some pre-emptive blame-shifting. Government Shut Down ‘More Likely Than Not’

A leadership deficit amid a budget crisis



WI State Worker In Undisclosed Location: Kids Missing School Is GOP Gov's Fault

It's cute the way they thing this is a threat - Rep. Moran: Members should share pain of federal shutdown

Profiles in Cowardice: Part I, Wisconsin Edition AND Wisconsin Senate Democrats Hiding at Resort in Illinois: Local Tea Parties Mobilizing UPDATE: Dems Flee Resort

ABC: Obama continues “factually incorrect” statements on budget proposal

Sen. Bingaman to retire



Genius advisers or just Dem donors? President Obama dines with San Francisco tech moguls

Obama's teleprompter escapes budget ax
The Democratic National Committee's Organizing for America arm -- the remnant of the 2008 Obama campaign -- is playing an active role in organizing protests against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's attempt to strip most public employees of collective bargaining rights.

Not enough money for a 2012 primary?

Big Union/Leftie Groups 02-18


Wisc. Superintendent Tells Teachers to Get Back to School AND Wisconsin update: Walker sends out rangers to fetch the Chicken Dems AND Wisconsin's Anti-Union Bill in Limbo as GOP Sends State Troopers After Missing Democrats

Poll - State legislators get to cast their vote on Gov. Walker's budget repair bill today. How would you vote? Results as of 1:45pm 2/18/11 - Approve it (59%) Kill it (41%) Total Responses: 72688 AND Poll: Public Sector Unions Shouldn't Exist

The case against public sector unionism

TN is on board - Bill OK'd To End Collective Bargaining With Schools

Ohio too - Thousands at Statehouse Face Off on Senate Bill 5

As in Wisconsin, So in Idaho

Could Minnesota See Similar Union Fights As Wisconsin?

Union chaos: Is New York next? AND Gov. Cuomo must lead push to give the city the power to fire incompetent teachers, reform pensions

Beyond Wisconsin: Other States Facing Union Protests

Not Just Wisconsin: Unions Held Accountable in Several States

Ya think? Wisconsin Labor Unrest Could Go National

Join Andrew Breitbart, Herman Cain & Jim Hoft at Wisconsin Freedom Rally to Support Scott Walker Saturday

Oh good Obama's getting involved. Is This How a President Should Act? AND DNC Helping WI "Protests" AND DNC, OfA aiding WI union protests
The Democratic National Committee's Organizing for America arm -- the remnant of the 2008 Obama campaign -- is playing an active role in organizing protests against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's attempt to strip most public employees of collective bargaining rights.
AND Obama rallies union base as budget standoff grips Wisconsin



Wisconsin Liberals Starve Children

An Assault on Taxpayers

Despite Budget Cuts, Layoff Fears, Milwaukee Teachers Fight for Taxpayer-Funded Viagra

CPAC Interview: How Public Sector Unions are Driving Us Bankrupt

Good question - Where Does the Left Get the Time?

Public employee unions or the common good?

Madison schools will close once again. The teachers take another day off to demonstrate at the capitol. What impression is this making around the state?

Walker to Dems: ‘You Can’t Have Conversations If You’re Not at Work’

BREAKING: Wisconsin Dems Hiding At Best Western in Rockford, IL …Update: TEA PARTY WINS! Chases WI Dems Out of Rockford …Update: WI Dem Says They’re Still in IL (Video)

Re ‘To Be a Republican Lawmaker in Madison’

Group targets Speaker Boehner’s (small-h) house

Public-Sector Union Bosses Fight to Stay in Control: What are YOU going to do about it?

Speaker Boehner’s home targeted by mob protest



Wis. governor: GOP won't be 'bullied' by union bill protesters

Athens in Mad Town A seminal showdown between public unions and taxpayers.

Who's been overreaching?

An Assault on Taxpayers

Wisconsin Senate Democrats Hiding at Resort in Illinois: Local Tea Parties Mobilizing UPDATE: Dems Flee Resort

Apocalypse Now: Wisconsin vs. Big Labor

The left's rejection of democracy in Wisconsin

More signs at the protest today. AND After all those efforts to paint Tea Partiers as using violent images and rhetoric, these pictures from Madison have got to hurt. The Wisconsin GOP made a nice montage

Wisconsin State Troopers Sent Out to Retrieve AWOL Dems …Update: Flee-Baggers Are Hiding In Chicago

Obama Says Wisconsin Governor Is Assaulting Unions; State Sen. Mark Miller Says 'This Is a Disaster'

Don't Like It? Riot

‘Winning the Future’ Means Winning in Madison



Left-wing bullies finally on the run

Auto union must look out for companies, too

Unions want to overturn election result

Union-busting in Wisconsin prompts mass protest

"Democrats believe in democracy - except when they lose".

One More Thing About Wisconsin

Fighting Corruption 02-18


Time to Start Brewing

Citizen Watchdogs to Aid Rep. Issa in Oversight Investigations. Every project undertaken by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will involve citizens and activists having their say.

How to Think About the Tea Party

Union member in Ohio screams expletives about Tea Party [VIDEO]

Wisconsin Senate Democrats Hiding at Resort in Illinois: Local Tea Parties Mobilizing UPDATE: Dems Flee Resort

Tea Party Drives Senate Dems Back to Madison

‘Oh, We All Have a Little Libertarian in Us’

Join Andrew Breitbart, Herman Cain & Jim Hoft at Wisconsin Freedom Rally to Support Scott Walker Saturday

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Facebook Round-Up 02-17

From my husband -
Okay, so the US Administration's mission is WTF (winning the future) and Her Majesty's Government's is BS (Big Society). The EU's, meanwhile, is FU (Financial Union).

Also from my husband - TSA union power grab. Scheme means less service - and security

Anthropologists Trace Human Origins Back To One Large Goat

It's Time to Do the Big Things (Christie AEI Speech Transcript, worth the read!)

Let the Best Bulb Win

Beating Big Green at the trial lawyer game

House Committee Approves RGGI Repeal



Time to Get Rid of the Corporate Income Tax?

England’s Slow-Motion Death Panels

How biofuels contribute to the food crisis

The Belgian lesson

How Business Can [Better] Tell Its Story

How Business Can [Better] Tell Its Story from CEI Video on Vimeo.



Opposing view on health law: High labor costs = fewer jobs

Telecommuting: Transparency and Fluidity

Sanity slowly returning to global warming policy

Bruges Group report says that Germany has benefitted most from the Euro

Beware of Greeks Accepting Gifts

Daily Round-Up 02-17



Holder Must GO - Grassley to Holder: ATF refused to answer specific questions in briefing


THE GOOD NEWS IS...


Thomas Sowell speaks to TheDC about the financial crisis, health care, and his ideological transformation from Marxism to conservatism

White House Budget: A Teachable Moment For Obama Supporters

A Hearing for D.C.’s Children

Christie: I'm a "Fighter," but Not Ready to be President... Yet

States Revise Rules on Driver's Licenses for Illegal Immigrants as National ID Approaches

Can You Hear Me Now?

Mitch Daniels's case for a less strident conservatism

Hawaii Kills Same-Sex Civil Unions Bill



GENERAL BAD BEHAVIOR


Third Circuit Judge Denies Lawyer’s Request for Order That “Will Compel ... Volokh to Remove His ... Blog [Post]”

Did the ATF Allow Gun Sales to Traffickers?

Auburn University Says Oak Trees Deliberately Poisoned at Historic Site

“Operation Protect Our Children” Accidentally Shut Down 83,990 Web Sites

For background on the Pigford Scandal, start here. John W. Boyd demands more from government for black farmers over the $1.15 billion awarded in December

This Little Pigford

Re: Pigford’s Harvest

The Real Face of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Delusions of Its Supporters



AND THE GOOD GUYS ARE...

Citizen Watchdogs to Aid Rep. Issa in Oversight Investigations. Every project undertaken by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will involve citizens and activists having their say.

Gov. Christie chides Republicans over entitlement reform

Chris Christie isn't pretty, and he tells ugly truths At least he is a politician telling the truth.

Watch This Christie Video


Chris Christie: Energy in the Executive

‘Put Up or Shut Up’: Christie Takes on Entitlements, Obama, and the House GOP

Puerto Rico's Gov. Fortuno Slashes Deficit

The Countrywide Subpoena Rep. Issa wants the names of VIP-loan recipients.

Gulf of Mexico drilling companies push back on Obama’s ‘de facto moratorium’

Issa Subpoenas 'Friends of Angelo'


FIGHTING CORRUPTION/TEA PARTY NEWS


Tea party out to defeat 3 longtime GOP senators

The Patriot Act and the Tea Party

‘Put Up or Shut Up’: Christie Takes on Entitlements, Obama, and the House GOP

The Countrywide Subpoena Rep. Issa wants the names of VIP-loan recipients.

Media Bias 02-17



CBS complicit in news coverup

Public Radio Stations Urge Listeners to Lobby Congress, May Violate Federal Law

Pointing and laughing at her! - NYT’s Maureen Dowd Denied Entry to CPAC11 Blogger Lounge

Media, Not Boehner, are “Tongue-tied” on Obama’s Personal History

Cuban Filmaker Stonewalled in Trying to Tell the True Story of ‘Che’. Agustin Blazquez has produced a compelling film that demolishes the radical heartthrob’s reputation as a brave guerrilla fighting on behalf of the oppressed.

Decline is in the Mind

Sound Bite For the Day: Prog Talker Threatens Andrew Breitbart

DeMint Mops Up Muppet Tactic for PBS Funding



Matthews Interviews Common Cause On Justice Thomas, Doesn’t Mention Lynch Threats

Media No Help When it Comes to Budget Cutting

Assault and Moonbattery Lara Logan and misogyny on the left..

Media Matters Methods: Part 1

Maybe they should try reporting accurately rather than narratively - CNN’s Ratings Continue to Sputter

Junk Science 02-17



New Containment System Shreds Last Excuse for Permitorium

Consumer choice extinguished with bulb ban

What’s This About ‘Environmental Justice,’ Secretary Napolitano?

The Green Double-Cross Begins

House slashes $8.4M from EPA program

Climate change: Galileo moment for GOP Unfortunately, the Church of Environmentalism is what is trying to crush the GOP Galileos. As Mr. Tracinski states here - Galileo and the Scientific Pose of the Left

Gulf of Mexico drilling companies push back on Obama’s ‘de facto moratorium’

Obama's "Great Outdoors" Initiative

House Dems to target climate scientists

Senate Republican won't budge on Interior nominee hold

GOP sharpens climate message before vote

In Economic Woes 02-17



A tax here, a tax there and soon you're talking real money - New ‘Snookie Tax’ Enforcement Agents

It's time to end this addiction to benefits The welfare state must have work at its heart, not endless hand-outs, argues Iain Duncan Smith.

Obamanomics 101: Borrowing to pay debt isn’t debt-debt

Unemployment benefits jump to 410,000

Obama budget plan shows interest owed on national debt quadrupling in next decade

Decline is in the Mind



New claims for unemployment aid rise more than expected

Gallup Finds U.S. Unemployment Up to 10.0% in Mid-February

Is Your Job an Endangered Species? Technology is eating jobs—and not just obvious ones like toll takers and phone operators. Lawyers and doctors are at risk as well.

Pruning Farm Subsidies

Where We’re Going; Where We Come From

Why the GOP Should Welcome a Budget Battle Americans understand the need for spending restraint now.

Puerto Rico's Gov. Fortuno Slashes Deficit



How Goldman Killed A.I.G.

Gulf of Mexico drilling companies push back on Obama’s ‘de facto moratorium’

Our Unsustainable Budget Path

Gov. Christie chides Republicans over entitlement reform

Treasuries - Prices slip on worries over rising inflation

The President’s ‘Budget Is Going to Kill Job Creation in America … It’s Dead, Gone, Over’ in the House

Dodd-Frank bill comes due

Grim Milestone: Failed $862 Billion "Stimulus" Turns Two



FACT CHECK: Economic Policy Institute Analysis of the Continuing Resolution: What’s One More Wildly Inaccurate Prediction?

Consumer choice extinguished with bulb ban

5 Winners from the 2012 Pentagon Budget. As the Pentagon scales back its funding ambitions—asking for $13 billion less in 2012 than they planned—some aviation programs are seeing influxes of cash. The list includes some of the most used, vital equipment in the U.S. inventory.

State legislators get to cast their vote on Gov. Walker's budget repair bill today. How would you vote?

A Deformed Mouse of a Budget Obama’s leaving the hard work to the Republicans.



How public pensions killed progressive California

Illinois can’t avoid big spending cuts

National Debt Video Contest Voting - winners announced soon.

Republicans Propose Cutting Funding for Obama's Teleprompter

Jefferson on Debt

Bad Politician Bad 02-17


President Obama Job Approval

Obama 2012 support slips; Now, any generic Republican ties him

That worthless sack of waste Boxer rambles incoherently about things she can't understand because she was once stupid enough to be rude to my husband. Here.

HUD crumples up Obama’s transparency pledge, uses it as a gag



If he can do it, so can you guys - Puerto Rico's Gov. Fortuno Slashes Deficit

Ahhh, "smart diplomacy" at work - The Tyrants Lunge ANd this bit of idiocy as well - In sharp reversal, U.S. agrees to rebuke Israel in Security Council

The White House's 'outrageous' statement on Israel

Transparency

City Manager Gets Country Club, Gym Memberships and $350k a Year



House Dems to target climate scientists

Deficit Solutions Test the Mettle of Leadership

Cowards, cowards, cowards. Wisconsin budget fight escalates as Dems flee Madison to avoid vote

Sacred Cows: Why Lawmakers Are Stuck on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security Fixes

Gulf of Mexico drilling companies push back on Obama’s ‘de facto moratorium’



Decline is in the Mind

Gov. Christie chides Republicans over entitlement reform

What’s This About ‘Environmental Justice,’ Secretary Napolitano?

Obama's "Great Outdoors" Initiative

Castro’s new BFF



Behind Bam's budget punt

New Containment System Shreds Last Excuse for Permitorium

Hillary Clinton donors indicted