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President Obama is evidently feeling the pressure from the current shenanigans over a routine hike in the debt ceiling. But really, what president does not have to push through congressional attempts to embarrass him at debt-ceiling time? Man up, Mr. President. If you can ‘t take the heat, keep out of the kitchen, said Harry Truman, a [...]
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Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) on Tuesday predicted that the U.S. would default on its debt. “When a country is indebted to the degree that we’re indebted, the country always defaults,” the 2012 GOP presidential candidate said on the House floor. “We will default because the debt is unsustainable.” Paul predicted that the U.S. government would dodge the [...]
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A mayoral candidate’s plan to reduce violence in Baltimore includes a “bullet tax” that he said will increase the cost of committing a crime. Otis Rolley said he would, if elected, propose a $1 per bullet tax on all bullet purchases in the city. He also said he wants to improve recruitment standards and training [...]
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Can you smell it? There is blood in the water. Global financial markets are in turmoil. Banking stocks are getting slaughtered right now. European bond yields are absolutely soaring. Major corporations are announcing huge layoffs. The entire global financial system appears to be racing toward another major crisis. So could we potentially see a repeat [...]
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A Chicago Sun Times article, headlined “The disappearing black middle class,” reports on the disproportionate impact of these hard economic times on blacks. According to the data, taken from the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute, median net worth of white households fell from $134,280 in 2004 to $97,860 in 2009, while over the same period median black household [...]
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“We’re running out of time,” says Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner about the absolute necessity of raising the debt limit that would, no matter how you slice it, allow Barack Obama to continue his profligate and unprecedented spending binge. His scare tactics about an approaching doomsday Aug. 2 were echoed by Sen. Charles Schumer, who suggests [...]
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The White House on Monday warned President Obama will veto GOP legislation to “cut, cap and balance” spending and the budget. In a statement of administration policy, the White House Office of Management and Budget labeled the GOP bill as an “empty political statement.” The House Rules Committee is expected to take up the measure [...]
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As part of its most recent issue the New Yorker has released a must read interview with Ray Dalio – head of the world’s biggest hedge fund, Bridgewater. Dalio’s fund, which according to some may now be as large as $80 billion, continues to outperform even in this problematic environment, indicating that unlike various other managers who [...]
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Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus repeated his party’s commitment to stronger voter identification laws, saying that the GOP would not give up the fight against voter fraud. “I think that we need to make it easy to vote, hard to cheat, and I think that that’s a mantra that we ought to shout from [...]
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Despite being swept into the office of Speaker of the House atop a wave of newly elected Republican Congressmen, John Boehner (R-Ohio) may be sensing that, more often than not, this wave is crashing in on him and threatening to drown his little empire. Quite a different feeling from the day when 87 Republicans worn [...]
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All over America, restlessness and frustration are growing. It has now been almost three years since the great financial crash of 2008, and yet the U.S. economy is still a complete and total mess. In fact, there are all sorts of signs that things are about to get even worse, and the American people are [...]
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Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) is urging lawmakers to back a balanced budget amendment, calling it the only way to get federal spending under control. “The solution to a spending crisis is not tax increases,” Hatch said in the Republicans’ weekly address. “Yet, Washington has consistently demonstrated that it cannot control its urge to spend.” “Only [...]
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New Miss America Teresa Scanlan of Nebraska revealed her embrace of the Constitution in an exclusive videotaped interview with HumanEvents.com at an event for the conservative Young America’s Foundation, and says President Barack Obama isn’t being faithful to the document. Scanlan, the youngest Miss America in 90 years at just 18, said that when it comes time [...]
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If President Obama’s decidedly un-presidential explosion at House Majority Leader Eric Cantor during a White House meeting on Wednesday suggests anything, it’s that the stress is getting to the man. Everything that we’ve ever seen suggests that the president is fairly thin-skinned. As someone who had virtually everything in his life handed to him — and who [...]
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House Republican leaders have thrown their support behind the “Cut, Cap and Balance” plan that conservatives are demanding in return for an increase in the federal debt ceiling. According to lawmakers who attended an 8 a.m. meeting of the Republican Conference, GOP House members rallied Friday behind an effort to cut spending, cap spending in [...]
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