By Bill Wilson – Not without spending cuts. That was House Speaker John Boehner’s response to Barack Obama’s request to Congress to increase the national debt ceiling from its current $14.294 trillion level. “The American people will not stand for such an increase unless it is accompanied by meaningful action by the President and Congress to cut spending and end the job-killing spending binge […]

By Kevin Mooney — With John Boehner (R-Ohio) now officially sworn in as the new House Speaker you might think that organized labor’s pursuit of special interest paybacks from the Obama Administration is dead in the water. You would be wrong. The stipulations and restrictions […]

By Howard Rich – While the extension of Bush-era tax cuts dominated headlines during the recently-concluded lame duck session of Congress, the coming year will bring with it a renewed focus on public debt — whether policymakers like it or not. A fiscal reckoning is […]

By William Warren – Today’s cartoon comments on how our soaring National Debt (now topping $14 trillion) and rising unemployment is torturing the nation.

By Adam Bitely – The establishment in Washington, D.C. rose up from the murky swamp to renew their call for expanded, out-of-control government spending via the New York Times editorial page on Christmas. In their typical fashion, they call for more “stimulus” to fix state budgets that refuse to cut even the […]

By Kevin Mooney — With the demise of “cap and trade” legislation, The Obama Administration has shrewdly pivoted in the direction of renewable mandates that emphasize solar and wind technology as a sop to green groups. Looking ahead to 2011, newly elected Republican lawmakers are […]

By Bill Wilson – In 2008, there were two competing wisdoms about what to do about failing financial institutions in the wake of the economic crisis. The first said to do nothing and allow institutions that behaved irresponsibly and became overleveraged during the housing bubble to fail. […]

By Robert Romano – It is time to stop kicking the can on the $13.8 trillion national debt. Sharp spending cuts, the elimination of corporate welfare and subsidies, and a flattening of the tax code at lower rates are all needed to bring America’s fiscal house into […]

By Bill Wilson – All year long, Congress has failed to address the budget. Instead, the government is currently operating on a continuing resolution that expires in less than ten days. So, it needs to pass another one just to keep the government running, like the one that passed the House on December 8th . The House-passed […]

By William Warren – My latest cartoon looks at the roof collapse of the Metrodome in Minneapolis and also comments on how our nation’s debt in Washington will collapse the country.