Economy
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The problem with Obama’s problem with special treatment for rich fat cats
To hear the president explain it, the nation’s debt could be wiped out entirely if only the “well-to-do” (the latest…
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Sequester pain promises the first Obama intends to keep
Who cares if the stimulus bill failed to keep unemployment under 8% or that health insurance premiums are up despite…
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Harvard economist: Sequester's automatic budget cuts will boost the economy
Harvard University economist Jeffrey Miron argues “the sequester will be good for the economy” even in the near future, helping…
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Top Obama aides make three times the average wage of Americans
Despite the president’s dire predictions leading up to the sequester, including the 4-Pinocchio-grade whopper that the Capitol janitorial staff would…
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SNL skewers Obama over sequester, handling of economy
It’s been a rough week for President Obama. On Friday, the usually sympathetic Washington Post Fact Checker gave the commander…
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WH admits ‘putting forward’ idea of sequestration
Pigs really can fly — almost. On Sunday, exactly one day after President Obama’s most recent assertion that the GOP…
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Obama Administration admits Benghazi failures, Woodward sequester claims
Republicans need to learn when they have won an argument, rather than continuously demanding more “answers” to supposedly unanswered questions…
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Obama’s ‘balanced plan’ includes $300B in revenues that he calls ‘cuts’
Despite his having once struck a Superman-like hands-on-hips pose, standing before a statue of the Man of Steel, no less,…
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Sequestration will help economy in the long run, economists say
The Obama Administration has engaged in scare tactics about the sequester, inflating its impact on the government and the country (to…
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Video du jour: Maxine Waters claims 170M jobs could be lost under sequester
And here you thought Obama was overplaying his hand when it came to pronouncements of doom and gloom over the…
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Mythical austerity: Spending cuts help the economy in the long run
Opposition to spending cuts in America has been based heavily on Britain’s economic setbacks and “the myth of British austerity,”…
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Dead in the water: Obama’s military and the Iran nuclear threat
Two to three years ago, the United States Department of Defense had enough military forces on station in, or readily…
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Space-time continuum to end and other ideas for demagoguing sequester cuts
Listening to Obama and his allies in the Democrat-media complex, the government will fall apart if the sequester “cuts” actually…
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Obama: Sequester Sadist, not Chicken Little
The economic sky is falling, but not because of puny, across-the-board decreases in previously scheduled spending increases* set to be…
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Gov’t claims sequestration will hurt federal agency (despite fact it closed last year)
It appears there is something to the president’s warning that the sky will fall on Friday if sequestration is allowed…
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Penney's sends the wrong message
Imagine you are a malevolent corporate mole hired, through a stroke of luck, to run your competitor’s chain of retail…
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Many sequester budget cuts are long overdue
As I discussed earlier, the automatic budget cuts contained in the sequester will help the economy in the long run, even if…
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WH releases state-by-state impact of sequestration
With apologies to Mark Twain, “Everybody talks about sequestration, but nobody does anything about it.” And nobody talks about it…
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Florida Medical Association reports worsening doctor shortage
And so it begins. An article in the Sun-Sentinel grimly advises Sunshine State residents: Brace yourself for longer lines at…
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GOP should pass sequester transfer authority bill
Yesterday, this column denounced President Barack Obama’s extreme fear-mongering attacks on the supposed consequences (including the action he has already…
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GOP sequester retort must be: Obama's discretionary threats
And not that Obama merely proposed “it”. Congress passed “it”, but “it” is a small decrease in automatic budget law…
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A couple points about the minimum wage…
Two things to consider with the current minimum wage debate: 1) What does empirical evidence say? 2) What does common…
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Next Obama sequester threats from skyscraper window ledge?
Before one dime of government spending actually gets cut as debt ceilings or continuing resolutions (in lieu of budgets) expire,…
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HUD: Sequester cuts Obama signed could expose kids to lead poisoning
This isn’t how the threat of sequestration was supposed to shake out. The idea was presented to the president last…
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Outrage: Prison inmates collect unemployment benefits
Seriously now! Even the most entitlement-happy liberal has to find this story problematic. According to the website Philly.com, nearly 1,200…
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Dem Senator pushing for more taxes on the rich owes $1,200 in tax penalties
What started off as a thinly veiled plan by Barack Obama to redistribute wealth in America has become a rallying…
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SOTU: Democrats reject Benedictine reason and empirical truth
Liberal dogma makes envy, and greedy confiscation of the fruits of others’ labor, virtues for the funding of their non-reason-based…
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Despite earnings of $1.1B Facebook to get half-billion dollar tax refund
Need an example of the sort of tax loopholes used by major corporations that the president spoke of closing in…
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Confidential videos show mandatory taxpayer-funded ‘sensitivity training’ for USDA workers
Don’t call them “minorities” any more. Say “emerging majorities,” which has a much more felicitous ring. And don’t forget: We…
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Automatic budget cuts in sequester will help the economy in the long run
The automatic budget cuts contained in the sequester will increase economic growth in the long-term, if Congress will just let…
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State of American Union ain't Fat Tuesday
Capitol City and Baby Boomers party off debt passed on to youth in early stage of Hunger Games As a…
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