Economy

• Where’s the Accountability?
  Late last week JPMorgan Chase announced that it had lost some $2.3 billion, and possibly more, as a result [...]
• Paul Amendment to Export-Import Bank Reauthorization Fails
  WASHINGTON, D.C – On May 16, the U.S. Senate voted on a series of amendments to the Export-Import Reauthorization bill [...]
• Lee offers Amendment to End Export-Import Bank
  WASHINGTON—Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) delivered a speech on the Senate floor yesterday regarding his amendment to the Export-Import Bank Reauthorization [...]
• Destroying the Economy
  We are told the unemployment rate is working its way down to 8%. The real unemployment rate is [...]
• Are foreign tax deferrals and repatriation schemes anti-American?
  As a former IBM Senior Systems Engineer, a long time Information Technology Consultant, a former college professor teaching Business Information [...]
• The Coming Fiscal Collapse of California
  Please mark January 1, 2013 on your calendar.  That will be an historic day for the State of California. Unless things [...]
• Sen. Paul Urges Senate to Reject Re-Authorization of the Export-Import Bank
  WASHINGTON, D.C – Today, Sen. Rand Paul took to the Senate floor to oppose the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank. [...]
• Lee Introduces Budget Proposal
  WASHINGTON – Senator Mike Lee introduced a budget resolution that puts the country on a sustainable economic path, fixes [...]
• Beneath the EPA push to stop Pebble Mine
  There’s little doubt the Environmental Protection Agency is sabotaging Alaska’s Pebble Mine — not to save Bristol Bay [...]
• Escape from America: Why our most prolific taxpayers are getting out of Dodge!
  Why are over 200,000 rich, former American residents, living in London? Why do they make the UK one of the [...]
• America Lost in a Bubble
  No matter how this mad dash to nowhere is spun one thing is certain: all bubbles burst All bubbles burst.  This [...]
• Is Obama Negotiating A Treaty That Would Essentially Ban All “Buy American” Laws?
  69 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have sent Barack Obama a letter expressing their concern that a new [...]
• Federal Reserve Worries ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Is as Big a Threat as Europe, Still Voices Call For Quantitative Easing
  Federal Reserve officials are increasingly concerned about the coming “fiscal cliff,” putting it on par with the European financial crisis [...]
• Half-a-Trillion Tax Hike on January 1, 2013
  Financial D-Day is Upon Us! What some financial experts have called “Taxmageddon” is now in our face! But in the probable [...]
• Europe’s Failed ‘Austerity’
  In the wake of French and Greek elections last weekend, the backlash against European austerity is now in full swing. [...]
• The Bloomberg TV Showdown
  The Bloomberg TV “debate” between Ron Paul and Paul Krugman has created quite a stir on the Internet. The Texas [...]
• Paul vs. Paul: Free-market or Keynesian Economics?
  Small Government vs. the prevailing Big Government economic philosophy of deficit spending, government intervention, and inflationism. In “Paul versus Paul,” [...]
• The United Nations is Knocking, and Knocking Hard
  Patriotic Americans, Right now, forces are working to eradicate the United States Constitution and give regulatory and political power to [...]
• Sen. Paul Testifies in House Hearing on FOCUS Act
  WASHINGTON, D.C – Yesterday, Sen. Rand Paul testified at the U.S. House of Representatives Natural Resources Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, [...]
• DeMint: Government Shouldn’t Tilt the Field for Anyone
  When people ask me if I’m pro-business or pro-labor, I say I’m neither: I’m pro-freedom. Freedom is the only political principle [...]
• Free-market Economist Dissects Obama’s ‘Life of Julia’ Slideshow
  Obama’s recent I-Can’t-Make-It-Without-Government-Welfare-And-Assistance slide-show “The Life of Julia” — see here: http://www.barackobama.com/life-of-julia The verdict: We’re hopeless without Big Government programs that [...]
• Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget is a moral budget
  Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., chairman of the House Budget Committee, provoked some angry pushback when he claimed that not [...]
• Strange bedfellows urge EPA to improperly stop Pebble Mine
  Robin Hayes, chairman of North Carolina’s Republican Party, painted a target last month on Alaska’s proposed Pebble Mine. In an [...]
• It’s Official: Global Warming is Heating Mars (and we didn’t do it)
  Former Vice President Al Gore, Jr. became a billionaire by fanning [...]
• Krugman and the Austerians
  Paul Krugman, Keynesian extraordinaire, is crowing over the failure of “austerity” in Europe to reverse the economic decline.  He writes [...]
• Re: Comments on Capital Gains
  I have read the comments regarding my article on the Buffet Rule and I am disappointed that I did not [...]
• Your Tax Dollars Subsidizing the Wealthy
  We knew electric vehicles were expensive, but we didn’t know just how much of that expense was the battery alone. [...]
• UK: Half of over-50s will be forced to work until age 77
  If you’re over-50 and looking forward to a wealthy retirement, think again. Chances are you’ll be forced to work [...]
• 95% Of The Jobs Lost During The Recession Were Middle Class Jobs
  Who is the biggest loser in the ongoing decline of the U.S. economy?  Is it the wealthy?  No, the [...]
• Student loan deadbeats should be sent to debtor’s prison?
  If we can solve the Student Loan Crisis, it will go a long way to solving the Housing Crisis? Young [...]
• Green Loser of the Week
  It might have to be a group award for all the wind power wind bags, for lo—it turns out [...]
• Martial Law Executive Order by Obama
  Obama Has Signed ANOTHER Martial Law Executive Order — Click below to DEMAND Congress STOP Obama’s “Emergency Powers” Executive Order: [...]
• Obama to Parcel out US Ocean Territory to the UN via Executive Order
  Conservative American, BEWARE OF AN UPCOMING BARACK OBAMA EXECUTIVE ORDER! Just when you thought that nothing new from socialist [...]
• How to keep the poor poor
  Media personality Tavis Smiley and Princeton philosophy professor Cornell West have just published their latest contribution to American [...]
• Crucify all bureaucrats whose “philosophy” is based on ideology and emotion—others will behave better
  The revelation of the EPA’s “philosophy” used in their regulation of oil and gas companies—“crucify” and “make examples” of, just [...]
• China’s Dilemma: Power vs Freedom
  In a recent survey of nearly 6,000 high-income, college-educated individuals in 25 countries, the Edelman Trust Barometer found [...]
• Big Green pushes for EPA power grab to stop Pebble Mine
  Last week, as four major environmental groups in Washington were endorsing President Obama’s re-election, eco-bosses from the Natural [...]
• Scientists reveal Romney and Obama are actually clones
  One of the recent Rasmussen Polls has Ron Paul beating President Barack Obama in a head to head contest. [...]
• Rural kids, parents angry about Labor Dept. rule banning farm chores
  A proposal from the Obama administration to prevent children from doing farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism [...]
• Immigration: 150 Million Want to Relocate to US
  Recently a Gallup survey showed that out of the worlds 640 million people who wish to leave their home country,  [...]
• 2012: The Art of Intimidation
  What a joy it was to watch the Romney campaign executing on the Hilary Rosen flap, launching Ann [...]
• No Recovery & Bad ‘More Of The Same’ Policy: Federal Reserve Releases FOMC Statement
  Medicating the economy with more bad medicine.  –> Housing Market still depressed. Inflation up. Gas prices up. Yet, the commitment [...]
• Obama as Lawbreaker
  Nine State Attorneys General TAKE A STAND Against Barack Hussein Obama — Saying He Is A LAWBREAKER! IT’S STARTING — [...]
• One Nation Under Debt With Endless Debt Slavery For All
  Debt is a “soft” form of slavery.  In America today, it is not legal to bind people up with [...]
• Political Extortion of America
  One of these days Americans will either realize the treachery of the parties, or fail to make the hard decision [...]
• Romney’s Tax The Rich Formula
  Mitt Romney has cleared the path, and is on his way to securing the Republican Party nomination for President of [...]
• Buffet Rule: A Sure Loser for Republicans
  Should the middle class pay a higher tax rate than the highest wage earners? Chew on that thought while we [...]
• Rise of Empire, Fall of Conservatism
  “People do not easily change, but love their own ancient customs; and it is by small degrees only that one [...]
• Garet Garrett: Ex-America, part VI
  Garet Garrett (1878-1954) is a voice largely forgotten or altogether unknown today. Born in Illinois, by the age of [...]
• Obamacare and Unlimited Government
  The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare,” has undergone oral arguments before the Supreme Court, and its constitutionality [...]
• Global Taxation And Regulation Coming For Internet
  Conservative Action Alerts has been fighting for nearly two years to stop government efforts to take control of the Internet, [...]
• Captured US Drone to be Copied by Iran Military
  When we have our drones flying the world over, this should be expected. From Reuters: Iran’s military has started to build a [...]
• Environmentalism: less about hugging trees, more about bringing America to her knees
  Despite his speechmaking touting an “all of the above” energy strategy, President Obama’s reelection could depend his willingness to stand [...]
• Liberty is Null and Void
  America was founded as a Federal Republic.  This means our nation was designed to have two levels of sovereignty.  [...]
• Mr. President, It’s All of the Above
  Even MSNBC reckons that the president had a bad week.  The bad-hair week, according to Chuck Todd, included the “tax-fairness [...]
• Obama’s $10/Gallon Gasoline
  Obama doesn’t really care about the price of gas sky-rocketing right now! He has devious plans for [...]
• Republicans Are Going Soft
  In 2010, conservatives sent a strong, clear message to President Obama’s Administration, liberals in Congress and the rest of [...]
• 10 reasons the U.S. economy may be getting ready to tank
  While President Obama has been spending his time arguing for higher taxes on wealthier Americans — which would create [...]
• Christie the Prophet
  New Jersey governor Chris Christie recently warned that America is in danger of becoming a country of “people [...]
• What You Missed Over Recess
  Shocker: Obamacare Will Increase the Deficit: Medicare public trustee Chuck Blahous released a report last week explaining how, after taking [...]
• RRR: Reduce Corporate Taxes to 8 Per Cent
  Many Democrats do not seem willing to admit that John F. Kennedy was a tax cutter. Kennedy was pro-American and [...]
• A Review of Charles Goyette’s Red and Blue and Broke All Over: Restoring America’s Free Economy
  The United States of America in 2012 exhibits the characteristics of a nation in terminal decline.  Her capital city is [...]
• America’s oil melting pot could shrink the trade deficit and boost the declining dollar—without new taxes
  With gas prices continuing to climb, there is an ever-increasing quest for ways to find a culprit that [...]
• Looking At Our Failing, Liberal, and Expensive Public Education System
  The graduate may swing his tassel to the left side of his cap, but what does he have to show [...]
• How Much Education Spending Is Enough?
  The Washington Times reports that the Obama administration’s answer to everything really is simply to spend more: March 22: Education Secretary [...]
• The Buffett Rule: Class Warfare In The Making
  On April 16th, the Senate will vote on the Buffett Rule, and we must educate them on how bad [...]
• Allow Credit Unions to Compete With Banks—Support H.R. 1418 by Royce
  Republicans and conservatives of all stripes can agree on a few things. One of the most significant is Government has [...]
• An Introduction to RRR: A unique plan for economic recovery and job creation.
  As a conservative Democrat, I have gotten accustomed to saying things my Party does not like to hear. Quite frankly, [...]
• Our Irresponsible Government
  THE NATIONAL DEBT HAS INCREASED UNDER BARACK OBAMA BY $4.939 TRILLION. That is more during Obama’s 3 years in office [...]
• Bernanke to Congress: We’re Much Closer to Total Destruction Than You Think
  Official Congressional budget estimates understate the peril of rising debt, Fed chair Ben Bernanke told the Budget Committee on [...]
• America’s Collision with Economic Reality
  The United States is headed toward a financial brick wall. Although the country has been on this collision [...]
• 7-Day New York March for DREAM Act
  From the Editor: Welfare for our own people is crippling our economy (and moral fiber) enough, yet demands for it [...]
• Obama’s Martial Law
  Obama is Grabbing Unconstitutional Powers to Declare Martial Law — Click below to DEMAND Congress STOP Obama’s “Emergency Powers” [...]
• The mystery on the cliff: Whose fingerprints are on granny’s wheelchair?
  Our country is steep in debt, going further in debt, and the government is digging the hole deeper each and [...]
• Garet Garrett: Ex-America, part IV
  Garet Garrett (1878-1954) is a voice largely forgotten or altogether unknown today. Born in Illinois, by the age of twenty-five [...]
• Governments to Regulate, Control and Tax the Internet
  A law being attempted in Great Britain would give the government the ability to monitor communications without a warrant. [...]
• Slow Jobs Growth Suggests More Federal Reserve Quantitative Easing To Come
  NEW YORK – News of disappointing U.S. job growth in March on Friday renewed bets in the interest rates futures [...]
• McConnell tells Obama to ‘back off’ over court
  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell blasted President Obama on Thursday, telling him to “back off” from comments earlier this [...]
• The Prospects for Sound Money
  A silver lining of the global economic crisis is that millions of people have been awakened to the [...]
• Ron Paul: The Supreme Court and Obamacare
  Last week the Supreme Court heard arguments concerning the constitutionality of the Obamacare law, focusing on the mandate [...]
• Liberals Propose MASSIVE Tax Hikes!
  So now we know exactly where House Democrats stand. We knew that if they ever produced a budget it would [...]
• The Science of Half-Baked Ideas
  The more we learn about climate science, the more we learn what a shabby, back-of-the-envelope business it is.  [...]
• Life under an Obama with “more flexibility”—use less, pay more
  President Obama made headlines during his visit to Seoul, South Korea—though not for his public policy statements, rather for his [...]
• Rowing the Raft Away from Destruction
  “Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship [...]
• Progressive Monetary Policy and the Hate The Rich Ploy
  The liberal left acts like they hate the wealthy, so they play this game where their goal is to [...]
• Obama’s Executive Order & (Inter)National Defense
  Just over two weeks ago, President Obama signed an executive order that provides him and future presidents the power to [...]
• 20 Signs That We Are Witnessing The Complete Collapse Of Common Sense In America
  What do you do when an entire nation begins to lose the capacity to think rationally?  Many Americans spend [...]
• Bank Runs and Youth Runs
  After we learned our lesson in the Great Depression it looked like the era of the bank run was [...]
• Silver as Nullification
  A recurring theme in recent victories for individual liberty has been nullification. While the mainstream media steers the public eye [...]
• Ron Paul on Supreme Court healthcare case: ‘I suspect they’re going to rule it constitutional’
  Ron Paul on Monday said that his “big guess” about the Supreme Court’s ruling on the constitutionality of the controversial [...]
• Obamacare, Two Years Later
  This week marks two years since of the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and if [...]
• Obama: Drilling ‘every inch’ of U.S. would not cut gas prices
  President Obama used some dramatic imagery Thursday to defend his claims that more oil and gas drilling won’t help [...]
• Fed Chairman says Central Bank not Responsible for Housing Bubble
  Optimists call it a great recession, while realists call it a depression. Our economy — regardless of labels — is [...]
• China Owes A Trillion?
  Obama Wants $1 TRILLION Debt Ceiling Hike — But We Can Get That From CHINA Right Now… No Debt Limit [...]
• Time for a Cut, Cap & Balance Budget
  The most important policy imperative in the world today is for the United States to balance its budget. Though [...]
• Dangerously Vague Cybersecurity Legislation Threatens Civil Liberties
  There is a spate of proposed cybersecurity legislation working its way through the House and Senate. The bills are [...]
• Obamacare Premise Is Just Wrong
  Next week, the Supreme Court takes up the Obamacare litigation, the heart of which is the issue of whether [...]
• Stimulus funds use “smart” technology for surveillance of American citizens–now that’s “stupid”
  With gas prices climbing, so is the popularity of fuel-efficient cars. AltTransport.com, a site “dedicated to giving you the latest [...]
• City finds way to tax churches and non profits
  While the Federal government and the Catholic Church wrestle over healthcare provided contraception and abortions, City and County governments may [...]
• GOP must decide: Reject Dems’ crony capitalism?
  When President Eisenhower appointed General Motors CEO Charles Erwin Wilson to be Secretary of Defense, many people questioned whether [...]
• Congress Must Stop Borrowing Money — Take Action!
  In 2010, Americans sent a clear message to the government that they wanted to stop the out of control spending [...]
• A new champion for property rights movement
  What should be done about wetlands that aren’t wet and navigable waters that aren’t navigable? These improbable conditions have become key [...]
• Canada’s Immigration Problem
  … is the same as ours; namely, that all who cross their borders are adopted into a welfare state. Herbert Grubel, [...]
• Who Decided That It Would Be A Good Idea…
  Do you have faith in the people running this nation?  When answering that question, most people would bash either [...]
• Harry Reid Claims Dems will Keep the Senate
  After speaking with CNN about the state of American military affairs in the Middle East, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid [...]
• Hitting the Ceiling
  If you liked last year’s battle over raising the debt ceiling, just get ready for the fight to come. Last summer’s [...]
• Gas prices sink Obama’s ratings on economy, bring parity to race for White House
  Disapproval of President Obama’s handling of the economy is heading higher — alongside gasoline prices — as a record [...]
• An energy cost misdirection: look here, don’t look there
  We are all squawking about high gasoline prices, but there is an energy misdirection going on. Sabre rattling by Iran has [...]
• Just War and the Iran Crisis
  It would be wrong for the United States to engage at this time in an attack on Iran or [...]
• Sen. Paul Unveils FY2013 Budget: A Platform to Revitalize America
  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. Rand Paul yesterday unveiled his FY2013 budget, “A Platform to Revitalize America,” a plan that [...]
• DeMint signals he may not support Ryan budget
  Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Jim DeMint, R-S.C., unveiled a plan to balance the budget in five [...]
• Sen. Lee Speaks In Opposition of Antitrust Railroad Amendment
  WASHINGTON—Today, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) took to the Senate floor in opposition of Senator Herb Kohl’s (D-WI) railroad antitrust [...]
• Govt. sets record deficit in February
  The federal government recorded its worst monthly deficit in history in February, according to a preliminary report Wednesday from the [...]
• America’s Verdict on Obama
  When Jonah Goldberg wrote Liberal Fascism back in 2008, liberals blew it off; they weren’t interested in engaging its arguments. [...]
• IRS ‘Intimidating’ Tea Party Groups
  A conservative civil liberties group accuses the Internal Revenue Service of attempting to “intimidate and silence” a number of [...]
• Chevy Volt: Building a Better Tomorrow
  Watch this hilarious spoof on the Chevy VOLT before it is taken down — enjoy! Thanks to Bill Howe for [...]
• Boom-Era Property Speculators to Get Foreclosure Aid
  The Obama administration will extend mortgage assistance for the first time to investors who bought multiple homes before the market [...]
• High gas prices: bad for America, good for an election
  I don’t need to use a lot of space telling you why high gas prices are bad for America, but [...]
• Inflation Is A Tax And The Federal Reserve Is Taxing The Living Daylights Out Of Us
  Ronald Reagan once famously declared that inflation is a tax, but sadly most Americans did not really grasp what [...]
• The Great Gibson Guitar Raid: Months Later, Still No Charges Filed
  “They…come in with weapons, they seized a half-million dollars worth of property, they shut our factory down, and they [...]
• It’s Time For An Honest Budget
  Every year, Presidents and Congress produce budgets that fail to put forth a credible plan to save our country and [...]
• Rep. Paul: The Federal Reserve will Self Destruct
  Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) addresses Federal Reserve Chairman Benjamin Bernanke on the unstable, undefined US Dollar and monetary policy on [...]
• Gasoline Prices Are Not Rising, the Dollar Is Falling
  Panic is in the air as gasoline prices move above $4.00 per gallon. Politicians and pundits are rounding up [...]
• Dem Govs meet with Obama to Bypass Congress, Focus on Jobs
  President Obama and a host of Democrat governors met last Friday to discuss ways to bypass Congress; the meeting in [...]
• Obama, LACEY Act Shut Down American Business
  More than 14 million Americans are unemployed, and it looks like Obama wants to increase those numbers by closing [...]
• We’re Already Europe
  With seemingly every day bringing more bad news from Europe, many are beginning to ask how much longer the [...]
• United Nations Tax or American Sovereignty?
  United Nations Ready to TAX Americans & Take American Sovereignty — Click below to Demand Congress REJECT the “LOST” Treaty: [...]
• Fossil fuels’ triple “A” rating
  “I’m trying to write a paper on why fossil fuels are good. I was wondering if you could help me [...]
• Big Government Reorganizing Anti-Freedom Cybersecurity Bill
  Big Government is at it again. Despite the fact that the dangerous Stop Online Piracy (SOPA) and Protect IP Acts (PIPA) [...]
• Obama energy policy cripples justice for Native Americans
  President Obama’s heavy-handed energy regulations and Big Green’s egregious legal delays have crippled the ability of tribal leaders to [...]
• America’s per capita Government debt worse than Greece
  The office of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions released a chart (shown above) that should prompt America to get her financial [...]
• 55 Interesting Facts About The U.S. Economy In 2012
  How is the U.S. economy doing in 2012?  Unfortunately, it is not doing nearly as well as the mainstream [...]
• Manmade climate change advocates are behaving like cornered rats
  Public confidence in scientific “consensus” regarding the theory of manmade climate change is threatening the believing scientists’ confidence. While polls [...]
• A Budget Rear-View Mirror
  Now that Obama’s last budget — we hope — is out, a mere week after the statutory deadline, the nation’s [...]
• Ron Paul says US ‘slipping into fascism’
  Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul slammed America’s system of governance at a rally in Kansas City, saying businesses and [...]
• President Obama’s fake fossil fuel infatuation
  President Obama’s crush on oil and gas was short lived. On January 24, he angered his green base when, in his [...]
• Joe Biden: Recovery and Reinvestment Act lived up to its name
  The following is Vice President Joseph Biden’s opinion on the Obama Administration’s Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which was signed into [...]
• Is TSA just another airline subsidy?
  Before 2001, the airlines were responsible for providing airport security; the costs were included in the base fare structure. [...]
• Our High Fuel Prices
  UNDER OBAMA, GAS PRICES HAVE RISEN 83% … AND THEY CONTINUE TO GO UP, UP, UP! Although his jobs council called [...]
• Sen. Paul Continues to Push for the Elimination of Foreign Aid to Egypt
  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the U.S. Senate voted to limit debate on the 2013 highway bill. In its [...]
• Fed Should Heed Lessons of 1920 Recession Response
  The U.S. has been “overmedicated” by public policy and should consider the government’s 1920’s response to recession, said James Grant, [...]
• Internet Freedom or ‘Data Retention Bill’ HR 1981?
  INTERNET USERS: THIS IS AN URGENT CALL TO ACTION. Please read this message carefully to the end. We need [...]
• Obama’s proposed tax hikes at odds with GOP rivals
  President Barack Obama proposed tax increases on wealthy individuals and some corporations Monday, setting the stage for an [...]
• Fed Low Interest Rate Policy Distorts the Economy
  Investors in stocks and longer-term bonds can thank Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke for his new policy of providing [...]
• Why Are Record Numbers Of Young Adults Jobless And Living At Home With Mom And Dad?
  In the United States today, unemployment among those age 18 to age 34 is at epidemic levels and the [...]
• Paul Capturing Delegates Could Force Fed Changes on Republicans
  Ron Paul, trailing in delegates needed for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, could be positioning himself to force [...]
• 34 of 37 Italian Banks Dowgraded
  Stocks slumped Friday, on track to post their worst session this year, after stalled debt negotiations in Greece, some [...]
• Alaska Natives ask EPA to stop threatening their economy
  Abe Williams and Lisa Reimers of Nuna Resources, an Alaska Native consortium, flew to Washington this week to see Environmental [...]
• 10 Things That Every American Should Know About The Federal Reserve
  What would happen if the Federal Reserve was shut down permanently?  That is a question that CNBC asked recently, [...]
• How Big Government Drives Jobs Overseas
  A new video from U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) explains how big government is making it harder for [...]
• White House wants DHS to manage cybersecurity for ‘civilian networks’
  The White House proposal recommended that the Department of Homeland Security be given broad regulatory authority for cybersecurity matters over [...]
• Sen. DeMint: Why Republicans Must Become More Libertarian
  “The new debate in the Republican party needs to be between conservatives and libertarians,” says Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.). “A [...]
• ACTA is a Bad Agreement
  ACTA was negotiated in extreme secrecy by a small group of wealthy nations. As leaked documents make clear, the [...]
• The Federal Reserve’s Crony Capitalism
  The Federal Reserve’s decision to release forecasts for short-term interest rates is supposed to clarify monetary policy and reassure [...]
• Obama pushed Dodd-Frank because of God
  President Barack Obama has been taking lumps from Republicans for years over his support for Wall Street and health [...]
• Gold climbs to 8-week high as stocks rise
  The precious metal has risen nearly 12 percent this year, supported by the Federal Reserve’s announcement that it [...]
• Our Future in the Hands of the Senate?
  There are currently 27 jobs bills waiting in the Senate for action. Now that Congress is back in session, it’s time [...]
• No More Bipartisan Bailouts
  One of the few lines in President Obama’s State of the Union address that actually received bipartisan applause was [...]
• President Obama’s Civilian Soldiers
  Everybody is outraged and disgusted by our divisive politics, from Jewish bubbies in Florida to AT’s own Rick Moran.  [...]
• California Destruction Continues
  The California Air Resources Board has determined that by 2025—thirteen years from now—15% of the cars on the road will [...]
• Bipartisan Group of Senators to Introduce Legislation to Approve Keystone XL Pipeline
  44 Cosponsors Support the Bill WASHINGTON –U.S. Senators John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), David Vitter (R-La.) and a total [...]
• Internet Freedom: Surveillance and Censorship Rising
  Just last week, Congressional efforts to paralyze our mostly-free internet were frozen due to nationwide outrage: I am referring to [...]
• If the Economy is Getting Better …
  Everywhere you turn these days, someone is proclaiming that the economy is improving.  Barack Obama is endlessly touting the [...]
• Now is the Time!
  Sarah Palin was just about to drag the Progressive John McCain over the finish line.  Then the economy collapsed and [...]
• The Federal Reserve’s Commitment to Unstable, Political Money
  Bernanke speaks and gold prices jump. On Wednesday The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee announced its plans to promote “maximum [...]
• Biden: Obama has been working with GOP to cut deficits, grow middle class
  Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday the protracted policy fight between Democrats and Republicans in Washington is “not about bad [...]
• A Redistributive State of the Union
  Shortly after President Obama was elected, NBC News interviewed a young woman from Detroit named Peggy Joseph. She explained [...]
• Sen. Schumer on the State of the Union: “We Are in Great Shape”
  Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) says of Obama’s SOTU address: “The Republican speaker last night, Mitch Daniels, talked about ‘Americans must [...]
• Are George Soros, The IMF And The World Bank Purposely Trying To Scare The Living Daylights Out Of Us?
  Over the past couple of weeks, George Soros, the IMF and the World Bank have all issued incredibly chilling [...]
• Gas up 83%, Beef 22%, Bacon 22% since Obama Admin
  So far, during the presidency of Barack Obama, the price of a gallon of gasoline has jumped 83 percent, according to [...]
• Our ‘Employment Prevention Agency’
  In just the past few months, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have decided that jobs are [...]
• Lee Highlights Democrats’ 1000 Days of Failure
  WASHINGTON – Tomorrow, President Obama will give his State of the Union address on the 1,000th day since the Democrat-controlled [...]
• 1,600 Illegal Immigrant Deportation Cases Closed by Obama Admin
  Over 1,600 illegal immigrants residing in Colorado and Maryland will not be deported because they are not considered “a national [...]
• The Income-Inequality Myth
  As we listen to President Obama, Occupy Wall Street, and much of the mainstream media working themselves into a [...]
• Rep. Paul: Speech Against Raising the Debt Ceiling Jan 18 2012
   
• There is Still time to Stop SOPA, Internet Censorship Bills
  CONGRESS STILL PUSHING FOR INTERNET CENSORSHIP IN AMERICA; we must act now to protect a free and open internet. The powerful [...]
• Vote Is TODAY on Debt Limit Hike – Tell Congress NO!
  Vote is TODAY on ANOTHER Debt Ceiling Increase — Tell Congress to REJECT Obama’s Request: https://secure.conservativedonations.com/rm_debtlimit/?a=2565 ALERT: TODAY is the vote [...]
• Paul heads back to D.C. for debt ceiling vote
  Rep. Ron Paul of Texas is taking a day off from the campaign trail in South Carolina to return [...]
• Stopping Internet Laws means Staying Vigilant
  On Saturday, the White House released a letter responding to petitioning efforts against recent anti-piracy bills moving through Congress and [...]
• The EPA is binge gambling with the heart of the US economy
  Folks who stop at a slot machine in the Las Vegas airport between flights can usually risk the few dollars [...]
• White House letter Defends E-Parasite, Anti-Internet Bills
  For months now Conservative Action Alerts has been warning of the dangers related to certain freedom-killing ‘anti-privacy’ bills making their [...]
• Federally Funded $6 Million ‘Green Jobs’ Boondoggle in Wisconsin: Less than Two Dozen Jobs Created
  The problems with ‘green job’ creation and the incompetence of the federal government are both evident when analyzing how [...]
• Big Government to End Internet Freedom
  Congress will be returning to Washington soon, and one of the things they will be taking up when they get [...]
• Five European Nations to Be Downgraded by S&P
  Standard & Poor’s is expected to cut the credit ratings of Italy, Spain and Portugal by two notches and downgrade [...]
• Checklist: How To Prepare For The Difficult Years Ahead
  How should people prepare for the difficult years that are coming?  I get asked about that a lot.  Once [...]
• Obamas held a secret Alice in Wonderland-themed party at White House in depths of recession in 2009
  Right as the economy was going down the rabbit hole, the Obamas decided to host an Alice in Wonderland [...]
• Tebow Time (We Need It)
  As a result of the absolutely stunning 29-23 overtime victory by the Denver Broncos over the Pittsburgh Steelers, it seems [...]
• White House Announces Federal And Private Sector Job Opportunities For America’s Youth
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• Celebrating Unemployment in 2012?
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• The Corruption of America
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• Michigan State Rep. Fights Inhaler Ban
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• Fed vs. ECB: the Impact of Central Banking
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• Terrible Economics: An American-Funded European Bailout
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• Have You Heard About The 16 Trillion Dollar Bailout The Federal Reserve Handed To The Too Big To Fail Banks?
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• Closing USPS
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• 22 Reasons Why We Could See An Economic Collapse In Europe In 2012
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• Maxine Waters in line to take over from Frank on Financial Services Committee
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• More Wasted Tax Dollars
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• Tea Party Groups Seek Ohio ‘Right-to-Work’ Measure
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• Help Demand a Balanced Budget Amendment
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• The 1% Speaks: Peter Schiff at Occupy Wall Street — Uncut, Unfiltered
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• Take Action: Get the Government out of the Economy, support Jobs for Growth Act
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• Obama takes ‘Executive Actions’ for Vet jobs
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• Judge blocks graphic images on cigarette packages
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• Bernanke Fails to Take Responsibility for Dismal Outlook
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• Big Gov Bill Assaulting Internet Freedom
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• Ron Paul Slams Congress as debt exceeds US GDP
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• Fed to pause, sow seeds for more easing
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• Let Them Eat Cake: 10 Examples Of How The Elite Are Savagely Mocking The Poor
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• Update: Continued Efforts Bringing Down Solyndra Eco-Scam
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• Bachmann criticizes Obama’s student loan plan
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• China to Bailout Europe?
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• ‘Idolatry of the Market’?
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• Joe Biden: There Will Be A Huge Increase In Murders And Rapes If The Federal Government Doesn’t Spend More Money To Help The Economy
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• Pulling out of Iraq, pushing into Uganda?
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• Equally Poorer
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• Obama Slush Funds and Scandals Are NOT Shocking
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• Biden: ‘We HAVE brought back jobs’
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• “I Am The 1%. Lets Chat”: Peter Schiff Goes To Occupy Wall Street
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• Social Security benefits to increase in 2012
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• Where the Jobs are: Double your Salary in North Dakota
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• Fed-up protesters rally for visit from Ben Bernanke
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• Ron Paul announces ambitious ‘Plan to Restore America’
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• Boehner, Obama talk jobs as Senate GOP offers plan
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• Solyndra funder Kaiser paid zero taxes for years
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• 50 Random Facts That Make You Wonder What In The World Has Happened To America
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• Occupy Wall Street vs. Jobs
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• Our Government Doesn’t Create Jobs, It Kills Them
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• Nestle warns of new food riots
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• E-mails show second loan planned for Solyndra
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• U.S. Dollar Is the Monetary Titanic
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• The Fed Twists, The Market Shouts
  Last week the Federal Reserve began the second incarnation of “Operation Twist”, an attempt to drive down interest rates [...]
• Senate Democrats rewrite Obama’s jobs bill
  WASHINGTON  — Senate Democrats are scrambling to rewrite portions of President Barack Obama’s jobs bill, even as Obama tries [...]
• Bernanke says ‘we need to make sure that the recovery continues,’ plans to further tamper with economy
  Editor’s Note: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, while expecting different results. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben [...]
• Expanding E-Verify isn’t easy fix for immigration problems
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• What Are Democrats Thinking?
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• Obama’s ‘save my job’ bill versus real jobs bills
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• The Fed’s Twist is Putting “The Squeeze on the Banks”
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• Favoritism at Work: EPA Regulation Exemptions Begin
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• Obama’s Solyndra Eco-Scam
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• Hollywood puts Obama on a Thousand Dollar Bank Note
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• Obama admin approves 2 solar loans worth $1 Billion
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• Monopoly Money and Federal Reserve Notes side by side — you won’t believe it
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• Americans plan ‘Stand with Gibson’ rally to oppose raids
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• Still Spreading the Wealth
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• LightSquared, Obama, and Soros
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• Recession: Historical 1740s Tavern Closes
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• GOP Letter is soft on Bernanke and the Fed
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• Wall Street again looks to the Fed to ‘bolster growth’
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• Obama announces debt plan built on taxes
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• The American Dream: Sick But Not Dead
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• Jim DeMint says Obama using ‘Venture Socialism’
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• Green Failure: $36.8 Billion to create 65K jobs gives work only to few
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• Congress Pushes for $7 Billion in ‘Emergency Funds’ for FEMA
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• Obama, few GOP want a $447 billion package
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• Poll: Obama Five Times Worse Than Carter on Economy
  Two new polls today find that just one third of the public feels President Obama deserves re-election while [...]
• Grow jobs, repeal the minimum wage
  Time to repeal the minimum wage. This might not sound like something any candidate for elected office would dare say. [...]
• Obama’s 300 Billion Dollar Jobs ‘Package’
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• US Postal Service Near Default
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• The Federal Reserve’s Flawed Approach To Monetary Policy
  After two rounds of quantitative easing, unemployment is still above 9% while annual CPI inflation stands at 3.6%. [...]
• A stagnant August sees zero new jobs
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• America’s Arrogant President
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• Obama’s Jobs Plan: Tax Hikes.
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• Manipulating Money Supply Is Like Lying about Cholesterol
  Would you lend money to a friend if you thought that there was a good chance that you’d not get [...]
• Obama & Transportation Spending
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• What Came First: the Chicken or the Idiotic Idea to Fix its Price?
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• Businesses cool as administration moves to ease regs
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• Obama: Jobs Come Later (While He Gives Tax Dollars to Canada)
  “I’ll be putting forward…a very specific plan to boost the economy, to create jobs and to control our deficit.” [...]
• The California Depression Defined
  Some question why I continue to use the phrase, “California is in a Depression”? Here are some of the numbers you [...]
• No Hope or Change When it Comes to Fannie Mae
  The Washington Post is reporting that President Obama has assigned his staff with the task of designing a new [...]
• Dollar Tumbles on Fed’s Rate Pledge; Swiss Franc Soars the Most Since 1971
  The dollar tumbled the most in 40 years against the Swiss franc after the Federal Reserve pledged to keep its [...]
• September Superbomb Announced by Ron Paul Super PAC
  NORTHBROOK, Ill.,  — Revolution PAC, the Super PAC formed in July to support the presidential ambitions of Congressman Ron Paul, [...]
• Michael Moore tells BHO to arrest S&P head
  Liberal firebrand Michael Moore called on President Obama to respond to the U.S. credit downgrade by arresting the leaders [...]
• 10 years and counting: the time it may take to restore the US credit rating according to Standard & Poor Exec.
  John Chambers, the chairman of Standard & Poor’s sovereign debt ratings, on Sunday estimated that it could take 9-18 [...]
• The credit downgrade: a speed bump on the road to ruin
  On Friday, America’s credit rating was downgraded from AAA to AA+. For the first time since ratings began, America is, [...]
• Why Bother? Let It Fall
  America is fading, and the ruling class lacks the courage to stop it. Courage was more abundant in 1776 when a [...]
• In the Red: a brief look at the Fed’s spending
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• States soon able to to opt-out of 18.4% Federal gas tax?
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• China: US has ‘Runaway Debt Addiction’
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• Obama signs debt-limit increase, US borrowing to 100%
  After Barack Obama signed to raise the debt-ceiling the US Debt shot up to 100% at $238 Billion according to [...]
• Americans cut spending for first time in 20 months
  WASHINGTON — Americans cut their spending in June for the first time in nearly two years after seeing their [...]
• 1,200 More Jobs Killed By Obamacare
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• U.S. balance now less than Apple cash
  Steve Jobs is now more liquid than Uncle Sam. While it’s highly unlikely that President Barack Obama is looking to [...]
• Stocks Fall, Gold Hits Record on Debt Concern
  U.S. stocks slid, pulling the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index down from a two-week high, and European equities [...]
• Obama amenable to brief debt deal, ‘Gang of Six’ plan gains more appeal
  The White House retreated Wednesday from President Obama’s vow to veto any short-term increase in the nation’s debt limit, opening [...]
• Heritage study takes a new look at American poverty
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• White House message on Cut, Cap, Balance Act: It’s Ryan on steroids
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• California Government Now Taxing Online Purchases
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• STEVE FRANK: The Games Played in Sacramento
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• Obama’s Economists: ‘Stimulus’ Has Cost $278,000 per Job
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• Obamacare has Business Owners Stuck in Limbo Waiting for Regulations to Be Issued
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• Economic Woes Mount Under Obama
  Two-and-a-half years of Obamanomics has crippled the U.S. economy with massive deficit spending, high gas prices, a crumbling [...]
• Anonymous Government Agents Snooping On Doctors
  WASHINGTON — Alarmed by a shortage of primary care doctors, Obama administration officials are recruiting a [...]
• Corporatist Obama to mix Business and Government via tax dollars
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• Newt Gingrich Turns Against the Federal Reserve
  Ron Paul used to be the only one railing against the U.S. central banking system. Now it’s a focus of [...]
• Ron Paul Becomes First Presidential Candidate to Sign Debt Ceiling Pledge
  Ron Paul, an official candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, became the first presidential candidate to [...]
• Cut, Cap, and Balance National Spending
  Those are three words that need to be drilled into the minds of every Member of Congress. Those [...]
• 1.9 Million Fewer Americans Have Jobs Today Than When Obama Signed Stimulus
  Twenty-eight months after Congress passed President Obama’s signature economic stimulus law, and nearly one year after he declared the [...]
• Put jobs and the economy first
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• RON PAUL: The Keys to Economic Growth
  Recent economic data show that U.S. job growth in May was negligible, while the official unemployment figure– at least the [...]
• The Patent Reform Bill Making Strange Bedfellows
  Why are John Conyers and Lamar Smith, Patrick Leahy and Orrin Hatch teaming up in support of the [...]
• Bernanke’s Posturing Ignores Inflation Reality and Hurts Americans
  In a recent article discussing the effects of “quantitative easing,” I remarked that the “Federal Reserve has laid the [...]
• Obama’s Commerce Nominee Wants to Limit Energy Consumption and Redistribute Wealth
  The wise man smiled and proclaimed that government should use “regulatory steps” as well as market forces to intervene [...]
• Audit the Fed Reloaded: Ron Paul and Rand Paul Introduce HR 459 and S 202
  RONPAUL.COM Congressman Ron Paul [yesterday] introduced HR 459, The Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2011 (also known as [...]
• The Patent Truth
  A radical overhaul of the U.S. Patent system is rapidly approaching. S23 passed 95-5 in [...]
• Environmental Protection Agency: Obama’s Job Killer
  Today, the American work force is being threatened like it has been at no other time in history. Even with [...]
• What Do Trade Protectionists Really Fear?
  The “fair trade” crowd fears inescapable economic realities. Concerning those realities, economist Michael Spence recently observed: “Globalization is the process by [...]