Forty-seven years ago, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Economic Opportunity Act that launched the War on Poverty.
Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy went so far as to call Rep. Paul an idiot for his assertions.
The only way to figure that Cut, Cap and Balance would end Medicare or Social Security is to lie about Cut, Cap and Balance. As it turns out, flat out, bald-faced lies don’t seem to be a difficult proposition for Democrats. And if your man can’t run …
In 2010, a number of Democrats sought to steer clear of the president to no avail. The Democratic nominee for governor in Florida, Alex Sink, ducked Obama during fundraising visits and ended up narrowly losing to Republican Rick Scott amid disappointing Democratic turnout.
An onslaught of federal rules that has lifted the regulatory burden to $1.8 trillion a year. An $830 billion stimulus that has failed utterly to create new jobs.
Just as Detroit was once synonymous with cars, Akron, Ohio, used to be the tire capital of the world and steel was a much larger part of Pittsburgh, Pa., than just its football team. Unfortunately, many of these other industries have been forced to move overseas rather than over …
In fits and starts, a 4% unemployment rate has moved up to some kind of permanent 9% plateau. Following the Bush tax cuts of 2003, eight million new jobs were created. But in the aftermath of the financial meltdown those jobs have disappeared.
A few weeks ago, Mr. Cantor was the hard man in the confrontation over the debt ceiling; he was willing to endanger America’s financial credibility, putting our whole economy at risk, in order to extract budget concessions from President Obama.
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