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Obama may blame GOP for a bad jobs report but it’s no subsitute for leadership

President Obama’s news conference Friday on jobs and the economy offered the American public nothing new. He blamed the Congress and Republicans specifically for our woes. ; The president’s remarks on the economy and Congress echo President Truman’s on the…

Weak Jobs Numbers, Weak Reelection Prospects

Move upMove down U.S. Adds Fewest Jobs In A Year, Unemployment Rate Rises to 8.2% Abram Brown Forbes Staff Sparkle Returns To Gold After Dismal Jobs Data, Promise Of QE3 Abram Brown Forbes Staff President Obama’s only claim to reelection…

Weak Jobs Numbers, Weak Reelection Prsopects

President Obama’s only claim to reelection is that he and his team steadied America during its time of economic uncertainty and are, albeit slowly, growing the economy. Today’s anemic jobs numbers show that in fact the economy is not recovering,…

President, Mitt Romney put opposing spins on jobs numbers

Why The Election Remains A Tossup

The Quinnipiac poll of swing states– Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania raises profound challenges for President Obama, underscoring why the election is effectively a tossup, notwithstanding his narrow lead in the Real Clear Politics averages. There are a number of reasons…

Why is the NLRB targeting small business?

According to politicians and practitioners on both sides of the aisle, there is a war being waged on practically everyone in America—women, men, working moms, stay-at-home moms, not to mention the perpetual mugging of the “99 percent.” We’ll leave it…

Congress eyes job creation incentives through Pennsylvania man’s Hire Just One program

Pennsylvania philanthropist Gene Epstein has been called many things: Persistent car salesman, tenacious real estate investor — and in superhero terms, crusading job creator. He’s best known for his Hire Just One program, a job creation project he came up…

President Obama and the Politics of Envy

In difficult times, a wise man once said, it’s important to state the obvious. So here goes… Barack Obama cannot run for re-election touting his success in economic matters. That’s mainly because he’s had no success in economic matters. He…

Sarah Palin Can Do Many Things to Help Republicans — Running for President Isn’t One of Them

There’s one thing die-hard liberal Democrats and hard-core conservative Republicans have in common: They both want Sarah Palin to run for president. That’s where the similarities end. The hard-right wants her to run because they think she’s brilliant – a…

Why Are So Many Americans Abandoning Their Homes and Walking Away From Their Mortgage?

Editor’s note: This is the first of a four part series on “Shattered Dreams” by attorney and Fox News contributor Bob Massi. ; What a difference ten short years makes! Back in the ’90s, basically everybody in America believed they…