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Federal regs for auto dealers costing US economy more than $10B, study says

Federal regulations for auto dealers are costing America’s economy more than $10 billion in lost sales and employment each year, according to a new study conducted by the Center for Automotive Research provided to Fox News. The study finds that…

Horror of Syria’s war displayed at UN

PreviousNext WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES Horrific images of corpses from Syria’s civil war, including shriveled bodies of detainees starved to death and others with their eyes gouged out, were among some 55,000 photographs smuggled out of Syria and presented at the…

Feinstein Pulls The Rug Out From Under The NSA

“It is my understanding that President Obama was not aware Chancellor Merkel’s communications were being collected since 2002. That is a big problem. The White House has informed me that collection on our allies will not continue, which I support.…

Obama Plays Politics With The NSA

As I discussed in my most recent post, thanks to last week’s newest revelation–that the NSA scans virtually all communications between Americans and their correspondents overseas, based on the conveniently inexplicit and ambiguous rule that the NSA may “seek to…

How Hillary Clinton can win in 2016

2016 is in the air. Vice President Joe Biden is heading to Iowa next month to be the keynote speaker at Senator Tom Harkin’s steak fry fundraiser, an event that often showcases speakers aspiring to be president. Things are heating…

Yes, Virginia, there really is a way to balance the budget

President Obama is set to propose his “compromise” budget plan on Wednesday. His budget is reported to trim the deficit by $1.8 trillion over the next ten years, with nearly $600 billion in savings coming from additional revenue and $1.2…

The Compromising Way Forward

In the past few weeks, Democrats and Republicans have offered up competing budget proposals—the Democrats in the Senate, the Republicans in the House—to address the nation’s mounting fiscal challenges. The two budgets are roughly $1 trillion apart on taxes and…

A conflicted Democrat’s take on the GOP autopsy and CPAC

After attending the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference, better known as CPAC, I read the Republican National Committee’s “autopsy report” on the state of the party. ;As a progressive who pretty much wants to see the conservative movement and…

Republicans need to quit complaining and start cooperating with Obama

Tonight, the president of the United States of America and the leader of the party that won the election in 2012 set forward a strong plan not only for the next four years but the next four decades of American…

10 years of DHS: Blessing or ‘bureaucratic monstrosity’?

Aug. 6, 2012: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano talks with a video crew for a TV show in Hangar One at Air Station Kodiak, Alaska. (AP) Ten years after its creation, the Department of Homeland Security continues to push against…