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Senate Democrats are scrambling to ram through Obama Treasury Secretary nominee Jack Lew in a Tuesday Senate Finance Committee vote followed by a rushed floor vote on Wednesday. “Obama has spent two campaigns railing against everything that Treasury Secretary nominee

President Obama’s Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has done something unique in Washington: he has united both left and right sensibilities in opposing or criticizing his nomination on the grounds of incompetence, dishonesty, and hypocrisy. Liberal Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank

Obama Treasury Secretary nominee Jack Lew says he is not sure whether, as New York University Vice President of Operations, he approved a student-loan kickback scheme that made Citibank NYU’s primary private student loan lender before he left academia to

Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s end of January meeting reveal that Fed officials are split over how long to continue making $85 billion monthly bond purchases in an attempt to stimulate the U.S. economy. Some officials in the meeting warned the

This past week, President Obama warned Americans that, if the sequester occurs, hundreds of thousands of children will lose access to Project Head Start. A new study, however, published by the Obama administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

When President Barack Obama and Congress agreed to increase the federal payroll tax by two percent to temporarily avert the so-called fiscal cliff in January, Americans were left with less money to spend. Now, some of the country’s largest companies

The Supreme Court has decided to hear a case which could eradicate the limit individual donors can give to candidates they favor.  The case is McCutcheon v. FEC, in which Alabama businessman Shaun McCutcheon and the Republican National Committee are fighting

During the 2012 election campaign, Democrats denied that ObamaCare made $716 billion in cuts to Medicare in order to provide funding toward $1.9 trillion in new entitlement spending over the next ten years.  In an announcement on Friday, however, the

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste… And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” This is what former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel

During a Friday Google+ hangout session, President Barack Obama conceded that his policies to address climate change will raise energy costs, a fact that could prove uncomfortable for Democrats in areas reliant on fossil fuel power plants: I have to tell

An Environmental Protection Agency-supported study reveals last summer’s Food and Drug Administration ban on sippy cups, baby bottles, and canned foods infused with the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) appears to have been an overreaction.  According to the study, conducted by Doctor Justin Teeguarden,

Despite little evidence that gun shows are in any way responsible for gun crimes committed in the United States, Maryland county has now banned all gun shows for the foreseeable future. According to Anita Pesses of the Prince George’s County’s

Following the Februrary 15th deadline for states to notify the federal government of their decision regarding who will run the new ObamaCare insurance exchanges, more than half of the states have decided to leave the exchanges to the federal government.

President Barack Obama’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced last April that the “Enforcement Guidance on the Consideration of Arrest and Conviction Records in Employment Decisions” would be updated so an employer’s use of an “individual’s criminal history in making employment decisions may, in

Canadian Financial Post editor Terence Corcoran recently suggested that President Barack Obama may be preparing a deal to approve the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast in exchange for a carbon tax. “I see new taxes coming

In one of the fastest enforcement actions ever filed for suspicious trading, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has frozen a Swiss trading account that turned a $90,000 options play into $1.7 million profit just before Heinz’s recent $23 billion

Liberals always accuse conservatives of disregarding science, yet when it comes to the economic science behind the minimum wage, they turn a blind eye.  President Obama stressed the need of raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to $9/hour in Tuesday’s

By a vote of 354-72, the House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to clarify that houses of worship are “eligible for certain disaster relief and emergency assistance on terms equal to other eligible private nonprofit facilities, and for other purposes.”