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The GOP’s judicial logjam

07/28/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
As the hot Washington summer approaches August, the Senate’s Republican majority is already on vacation from the work of confirming judges. At the current torpid pace, they will put the lowest number of judges on the federal bench in any…

Memo to Congress: Don’t give Obama fast track authority for Pacific Trade Pact

04/20/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
Congress should deny President Obama authority to negotiate yet another jobs killing trade pact in the Pacific. Free trade agreements eliminate tariffs and rein in many administrative barriers to commerce—such as inconsistencies in bank regulations and intellectual property laws—and should…

Jobs Report: Friday unemployment numbers hide widespread joblessness

02/06/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
The economy added 257,000 jobs in January, down significantly from the 324,000 fourth quarter average monthly gain. Overall, the economy is creating jobs but lower oil prices and a strong dollar are slowing the pace. Unemployment rose a notch to…

Fox Nation celebrates its fifth anniversary

04/07/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
Fox Nation is five years old, but it’s 317.8 million Americans strong. A century-and-a-half ago, Walt Whitman wrote, “I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear”—and if the great poet were with us today, he would no doubt be…

In Much-Hyped Speech On The Economy, Obama Offers Up More Of The Same

07/24/2013 Published on Forbes.com
President Barack Obama speaks Wednesday at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) President Obama’s speech this afternoon at Knox College was billed as the presentation of his economic vision. However, it turned out to be what I am…

When It Comes To Obama And The Sequester, The Public Has Got It Wrong

02/28/2013 Published on Forbes.com
Move up http://i.forbesimg.com tMove down The Age of Disruption Doug Schoen Contributor Looking for a Way to Reduce Medicare Spending? Look No Further than Part D Doug Schoen Contributor Tomorrow is a big day. The sequester will automatically come into…

‘Cloud Atlas’ soars over past and present, while ‘True Skin’ slams with shocking prophecy

10/26/2012 Published on Foxnews.com
This film image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Tom Hanks as Zachry and Halle Berry as Meronym in a scene from “Cloud Atlas.” (AP/Warner Bros. Pictures) Have you ever wanted to soar through time and space? You know, sail…

C’mon America, we’re bigger than our partisan divide — what Olympia Snowe’s departure tells us

03/01/2012 Published on Foxnews.com
Tuesday’s retirement announcement by Olympia Snowe – who said that she was quitting because she was frustrated “that an atmosphere of polarization and ‘my way or the highway’ ideologies has become pervasive in campaigns and in our governing institutions” –…