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Rosengren: Shutdown Could Delay QE Taper

A top Federal Reserve official suggested Wednesday the government shutdown could move the Fed to delay any pullback in its economic stimulus programs. “It would be nice if the economy were able to quickly snap back from what’s currently occurring…

Republicans dealing Obama the winning hand in government shutdown fight

It seems that President Obama has more allies on the Hill than we thought. But they’re not who you’d expect. The Republicans and Ted Cruz have become President Obama’s greatest ally. Their latest gambit appears to have failed and there…

A culture of meanness and political opportunism, on both sides, is poisoning Washington

On Monday, as the tragic shooting in the Washington, D.C. Navy Yard was still in the process of unfolding, President Obama gave a partisan speech observing the fifth anniversary of the financial crisis. Despite the fact that the shooting had…

Lowry on move to defund ObamaCare:‘We’re going to end up in the same place’

National Review editor Rich Lowry told viewers Thursday that despite the latest move by House Speaker John Boehner to go along with more conservative Republicans, the budget bill will pass without defunding ObamaCare. “Ironically enough, I think we’re going to…

Don’t let ObamaCare debate derail search for lifesaving medical cures

In one of their final votes before heading home for Congress’ annual summer recess, House Republicans voted to repeal ObamaCare – for the 40th time. ; While this bill will not go any further with the Democratic-controlled Senate than their…

What Abraham Lincoln thought about the Declaration of Independence

Editor’s note: The following op-ed originally appeared in Fox News Opinion on July 3, 2013. In the 1850s, Abraham Lincoln’s rhetoric was suffused with a profound sense of loss. He considered it shameful national backsliding that a new affirmative defense…

Obama declares a War on Coal

So much for the denials. An administration that throughout its 2012 election campaign denied it was waging a War on Coal has now come out and publicly declared its intention to shut down coal-fired power plants – putting hundreds of…

Edward Snowden And The Obama Agenda

Move up http://i.forbesimg.com tMove down Google’s War On Government Secrecy Kashmir Hill Forbes Staff After NSA Leaks, Senators Re-Introduce Bill To Reduce Patriot Act Secrecy Andy Greenberg Forbes Staff As the world was first introduced to Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old…

Benghazi is the blank spot in the Obama presidency

On “Fox News Sunday” recently, White House aide Dan Pfeiffer was asked about President Barack Obama’s whereabouts the night of the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi. This was the night when we lost our first ambassador in 30 years, and…