05.17.2012
By Rebecca DiFede — In 2008, when Obama began campaigning for his first shot at the presidency, he was regarded as the nation’s savior. Everywhere he went, he was greeted with crowds overflowing from the stadiums and arenas; everyone clad in garments bearing his image […]
05.16.2012
By Marita Noon — The wind energy industry has been having a hard time. The taxpayer funding that has kept it alive for the last twenty years is coming to an end, and those promoting the industry are panicking. Perhaps this current wave started when […]
05.16.2012
By Robert Romano — Here we go again. Speaking to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation 2012 Fiscal Summit on May 15 , House Speaker John Boehner once again called for offsetting spending cuts in return for increasing the $16.394 trillion debt ceiling later this year. This follows the failed attempt in 2011 to do precisely the same thing. All the […]
05.16.2012
By Rebekah Rast — $3.5 million a day. That just happens to be the amount of money California is looking to spend each day until 2017 for 130 miles of its high-speed rail system . It seems ironic for a state facing a $117,747,412,000 debt and a recently announced deficit of $16 billion , to be so earnest about spending another $6 billion on only a segment of a rail system , or $3.5 […]
05.16.2012
By David Bozeman — So, the newspaper that broke the Watergate scandal is reduced to this? The Washington Post, apparently in panic mode over Mitt Romney’s climbing poll numbers, ran a Page 1 expose of the former governor’s alleged bullying nearly fifty years ago . Grab your smelling salts, everyone and stop the presses! The concept of bullying now dominates […]
05.15.2012
By Robert Romano — When Greece entered the Eurozone in 2001, it was with the promise that the common currency would benefit the Greek economy, facilitating trade and commerce, and crucially, lead to lower cost borrowing both privately and by the government. Now, more than ten years […]
05.14.2012
AMEN! From the Labor Relations Institute : The United States District Court for the District of Columbia just ruled that the NLRB lacked a valid 3-member quorum to adopt its “ambush election” rulemaking in December 2011. You can read the decision here . Since Member Brian Hayes refused to participate in the actual vote on […]