Is that really the case? Is the war in Iraq, which ran from 2003 to 2011, really going to drive the deficit in 2019? And what about Afghanistan, with American forces on schedule to leave? "It's ludicrous," says former Congressional Budget Office chief Douglas Holtz-Eakin. "We a …
Back during the Bush administration in October 2008, under the influence of their Texas oilmen buddies, the Department of Energy entered into a joint public-private partnership with ConocoPhillips and Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC) to develop America's …
I forced myself to watch Bill Maher this Friday as I was trying to chart out this column. Thankfully I hadn’t just eaten. It was sickening to listen as cerebral dwarves Maher and some not-so-bright jackass from the fascist rag The Nation talked about how Republicans and …
Evil Republican spending cuts, in contrast, would deny the economy needed stimulus and wreak havoc on ordinary people. But the facts undermine the storyline. Veronique de Rugy of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University took a look at what “austerity” in Euro …
“There were still a good number of historic Republican donors who had been holding out, but with Mitt now the presumptive nominee, they are coming off the sidelines quickly,” one major Romney donor told Cillizza. “Recent Romney fundraisers are exceeding goals. …
Here's ours: We see no reason to remove Walker from office. We recommend him in the June 5 recall election. Walker's rematch with Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett was prompted by one issue: Walker's tough stance with the state's public-employee unions. It's inconceivable that the r …
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is the largest newspaper in Wisconsin and has a decidedly liberal tilt. The paper opposed Governor Scott Walker's collective bargaining reform and takes a dim view of Republicans in general. But to their credit, they see no reason to recall the R …
Speaking at a California economic conference this month, former-President Bill Clinton proposed taking “the lid of the H-1B Visas”—to finally remove the decades-old quota system entirely. “It’s easier to start a business here,” he said. &ldqu …
Prosecutors said the men were self-described anarchists who boasted weeks earlier about the damage they would do in Chicago, including one who declared, “After NATO, the city will never be the same.” At one point, one of the suspects asked the others if they had ev …
“How do you grade yourself, honestly, in terms of how you’ve done in terms of economics for this country?” When a more congenial interviewer asked him the same thing in 2009, Obama awarded himself “a good, solid, B-plus.” But here, too, Obama has e …
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