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Dems addicted to spending, eye new investor tax.

This week, the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute (EPI) offered its solution for jumpstarting the lagging economy -- more...

By Despina Karras | 10-11-2009

Chicago's Olympic Bid: Putting Lipstick on a Pig

This week, Chicago is buzzing with news of the forthcoming IOC decision on its Olympic bid. The national media is focused on the...

By Despina Karras | 09-29-2009

Cause and Effect, Action and Reaction

Obama and the majority of congress have stomped out all resistance to the health reform bill. Now nothing stands between Obama...

By Chris Schultheis | 07-17-2009

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Obama's Speech Tonight

I wish President Obama would say to Congress: Members of Congress, I ask you to address our fiscal emergency. In 1964, President Johnson won a landslide victory -- quite similar to mine. His election also brought liberals into Congress. The next year...

Published 09-09-2009 12:05 AM by John Stossel

Filed under: obama administration, government spending
Debt Bomb

As the White House and the Democratic Congress continue to plow ahead with a health care reform plan that has received deafening criticism from voters of all political persuasions, including many who have never before been politically active, the employment...

Published 09-05-2009 6:05 AM by Michael Lewis

Filed under: obama administration, government spending, federal debt
Bazillions Of Dollars

The United States government is currently a bazillion dollars in debt and is continuing to engage in bazillons more in deficit spending each year. The amounts of the debt and deficit are actually counted in trillions, but it might as well be bazillions...

Published 08-27-2009 1:05 AM by Lorie Byrd

Filed under: obama administration, government spending, budget defcit
Obama's Budget Admission Means You Can't Trust Him

President Obama released his massive $3.6 trillion budget back in February. Some called it ambitious. Others called it a spending blowout that was nothing short of irresponsible. Obama's budget handed out money to programs in such massive amounts...

Published 08-27-2009 12:05 AM by Kim Priestap

Filed under: obama administration, government spending
Social Security Issues

Half the country wants out of Social Security, and there’s nothing they can do about it. Every paycheck, the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) takes deductions out of our paychecks. These tax deposits are trusted to several government programs...

Published 08-27-2009 12:05 AM by Cassy Fiano

Filed under: obama administration, social security, government spending
Arrogant Congress Almost Pulls A Fast One

Here’s something people outside of Illinois might not know about former Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.): he never lived in the Governor’s Mansion. No, Blagojevich maintained his residence at 2934 W. Sunnyside Ave. in the Ravenswood neighborhood...

Published 08-14-2009 12:05 AM by T. J. Brown

Filed under: obama administration, government spending
Exorbitant Government Spending

Well, what do you know? Public outrage has caused Congress to drop their plan to buy a new fleet of Gulfstream jets to the tune of $550 million. Congress had approved $550 million to be spent on some fancy new private jets. These jets are actually bought...

Published 08-13-2009 12:05 AM by Cassy Fiano

Filed under: government spending
STOSSEL: Arrogance

It's crazy for a group of mere mortals to try to design 15 percent of the U.S. economy. It's even crazier to do it by August. Yet that is what some members of Congress presume to do. They intend, as the New York Times puts it, "to reinvent...

Published 07-22-2009 10:48 AM by John Stossel

Filed under: health care, government spending
Other People's Money

Have you seen any of those shows that follow up on lottery winners? You know, the ones where the people had been down on their luck, or made repeatedly stupid decisions and then won big by getting lucky? There have also been accounts of people given those...

Published 07-21-2009 12:05 AM by Melissa Clouthier

Filed under: health care, economic recovery, government spending
SOWELL: Medical Care Confusion

Is there a coherent argument for government-controlled medical care or are slogans and hysteria considered sufficient? We hear endlessly about how many Americans don't have health insurance. But, if we stop and think-- which politicians hope we never...

Published 07-21-2009 12:05 AM by Thomas Sowell

Filed under: health care, government spending
The Upcoming Explosion of Medical Tourism

The whole focus of the Democrats' health reform movement is to rein in the ever growing cost of health care. This just reinforces my theory that liberals suffer from one of the same thinking errors career criminals suffer from: a failure to learn...

Published 07-20-2009 12:05 AM by Duane Lester

Filed under: health care, government spending
SAMUELSON: The Squandered Stimulus

WASHINGTON -- It's not surprising that the much-ballyhooed "economic stimulus" hasn't done much stimulating. President Obama and his aides argue that it's too early to expect startling results. They have a point. A $14 trillion economy...

Published 07-20-2009 12:05 AM by Robert Samuelson

Filed under: unemployment, stimulus, government spending, CBO
Obama, The Car Salesman

Have you ever had to buy a new car? It's one of the worst purchases you ever have to make. Everyone dreads that day. Oh, you look forward to getting the car. You pick the one you want, you take it for a test drive. You can't wait to drive it home...

Published 07-20-2009 12:05 AM by Cassy Fiano

Filed under: stimulus, health care, cap and trade, government spending
STOSSEL: Health-Care Competition

The statist establishment would love a single-payer health-care system like Canada's if it were politically achievable. Barack Obama said that if we were starting from scratch, single payer is what he'd back. But, thankfully, Americans are still...

Published 07-15-2009 10:48 AM by John Stossel

Filed under: health care, government spending
Is The Goal to Remake the United States into a Socialist Nation?

When Joe Wurzlebacher inadvertently tripped over candidate Barack Obama's socialist intentions, many voters scoffed. No American president would want socialism. That's just crazy talk. Here's what Barack Obama said to Joe who was distressed...

Published 07-14-2009 12:05 AM by Melissa Clouthier

Filed under: capitalism, free market, energy, government spending