Americans are now taking more money from their fellow Americans in handouts, $2.3 trillion, than the entire sum of money, $2.2 trillion, paid in taxes every year. C'mon people. We ought to be better than this ... READ MORE
Senators on vacation. Yes, I know, usually we are better off when they're out of town, but the nation is drowning in debt, Standard and Poor's has downgraded the U.S. fiscal health to "poor," and the House has acted on ... READ MORE
GE CEO Jeff Immelt Should Divulge the Business Risk of his Global Warming Business Strategy, says Free Enterprise Project Washington, D.C. - GE investors are being urged today to vote for the Climate Change Risk Disclosure shareholder proposal (#4) in ... READ MORE
Automatic federal tax increases. Congress wouldn't even have to vote first to make them happen. That's President Obama's idea, and although you may not have heard much about it, the President says tax increases should be automatic if Congress overspends ... READ MORE
The White House appears to be using the term "transparency" when it really means "obfuscation." According to a report in Politico and an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity: The White House website proudly boasts of making available "over ... READ MORE
Washington, D.C. – President Barack Obama today laid out his plan for dealing with the ballooning federal deficit. Members of the Project 21 black leadership network fault the President for a lack of leadership on this issue and question the ... READ MORE
Outrage of the Day is a no-brainer today: the President's demagogic speech supposedly dedicated to cutting the budget, but mostly a long apologetic for excessive spending and a series of lies, such as his repeated statements that unnamed others (read: ... READ MORE
The mayor of the District of Columbia wins today's Outrage of the Day award for publicly disrespecting the laws of his city and flouting his most basic responsibility as the chief of the executive branch of his city's government: that ... READ MORE
MSNBC's Chris Matthews wins outrage of the day "honors" today for his on-air contention that Rep. Paul Ryan's proposed Medicare reforms will "kill half the people who watch this show." Matthews' demagoguery, which is reported here in detail by Noel ... READ MORE
Washington, D.C. – With lawmakers at an apparent impasse over how much spending reform will be included in a budget covering the remainder of the fiscal year and non-essential government services set to be suspended at the end of the ... READ MORE
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