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Poll: Americans Split on Ryan, Obama Budget Plans
Tweet Share on Facebook April 28, 2011 Comment (16)The usually insightful and informative Gallup Poll is out with numbers Wednesday that really obfuscate the debate over how best to address the nation’s deficit and indebtedness problem.
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Unions Try to Force 'Card Check' Through NLRB
Tweet Share on Facebook April 27, 2011 Comment (16)Prominent among the alphabet soup of federal regulatory agencies is the National Labor Relations Board, which, according to its website, is “vested with the power to safeguard employees' rights to organize and to determine whether to have unions as their bargaining representative,” and “acts to prevent and remedy unfair labor practices committed by private sector employers and unions.”
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Poll Shows Obama Is Losing the Debt Ceiling Debate
Tweet Share on Facebook April 27, 2011 Comment (13)The latest national survey from Resurgent Republic shows that President Barack Obama is losing the argument over how best to handle the vote on raising the debt ceiling.
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How to Solve the National Debt Ceiling 'Crisis'
Tweet Share on Facebook April 26, 2011 Comment (7)Washington is up in arms over the coming vote to increase the federal debt limit.
Republicans are insisting that any effort to increase the amount of money the federal government is allowed to borrow be accompanied by strict controls on the Obama administration’s ability to spend. Democrats are demanding a clean bill without any strings and are suggesting, darkly, that slowing the process in order to achieve spending reductions will throw the nation’s financial affairs into chaos.
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With the GOP in Power the Media No Longer Cares About Civility
Tweet Share on Facebook April 21, 2011 Comment (24)Is it just me or have the calls for civility in the nation’s political discourse died down since the Republicans won control of the House of Representatives last November?
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Media Disrespects Christianity During Holy Week
Tweet Share on Facebook April 20, 2011 Comment (23)This week hundreds of millions of Christians around the globe mark the arrival of “Holy Week,” a time to remember and to celebrate the crucifixion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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Obama Is Failing the Challenge of the Middle East Protests
Tweet Share on Facebook April 19, 2011 Comment (12)No one can really say whether the recent burst of democratic activism in the Middle East is the result of the Bush Doctrine or not.
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Tie Debt Ceiling Increase Vote to Spending Cuts
Tweet Share on Facebook April 18, 2011 Comment (10)With Tax Day comes the unwelcome news that Standard & Poor’s has downgraded the long-term U.S. credit rating from “stable” to “negative.”
“We believe there is a material risk that U.S. policymakers might not reach an agreement on how to address medium- and long-term budgetary challenges by 2013,” S&P said in its report, adding, “if an agreement is not reached and meaningful implementation does not begin by then, this would, in our view, render the U.S. fiscal profile meaningfully weaker than that of peer ‘AAA’ sovereigns.”
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Obama's Tax-and-Spend Budget Plan Is a Non-Starter in Congress
Tweet Share on Facebook April 14, 2011 Comment (19)Benjamin Franklin once said that nothing in life was certain save for “death and taxes.” With a Democrat in the White House the part about taxes is certainly true.
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Study Confirms Cutting Federal Regulations Lowers Unemployment
Tweet Share on Facebook April 12, 2011 Comment (4)Many prominent economists hold to the view that government regulation is a form of taxation. Except that, rather than take money out of the economy to perform some function, regulations require the expenditure of private money to achieve some arguably public good.
