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With President Barack Obama’s progressive base in an uproar over the National Security Agency (NSA) domestic surveillance programs, Obama seeks to quell angst among his environmental base on Tuesday by declaring war on coal.  “A war on coal is exactly

An analysis by a researcher at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University finds that the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) claim that the Senate immigration will create a budget surplus is false due to inaccurate calculations of Social Security inputs by

Last week’s major market losses continued on Monday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 197 points in early trading as investors absorbed the reality that the Federal Reserve’s days of “quantitative easing” and hyper-stimulus may be coming to an

Facebook’s former security chief Max Kelly now works for the National Security Agency (NSA), reports the New York Times. Kelly, whom the Center for Responsive Politics lists as having donated $1,150 to the Obama campaign in 2008, also previously worked

The six-person bipartisan Federal Election Commission (FEC) is set to receive two new commissioners at a time when the FEC has fallen under criticism for lax enforcement of campaign fundraising laws and possible foreign donations to U.S. campaigns. On Friday,

A White House petition to ban the teaching of creationism and Intelligent Design in American classrooms has garnered 23,715 signatures in one week. “Both of these so-called ‘theories’ have no basis in scientific fact, and have absolutely zero evidence pointing

The Dow Jones Industrial average plunged a combined 550 points Wednesday and Thursday, erasing over $120 billion of investor capital. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke sent stocks on a nosedive when he signaled that the Fed’s days of unprecedented printing

Arianna Huffington, RichardBranson, and twelve other CEOs and past business executives are uniting in aneffort to remake free enterprise by creating a “better version ofcapitalism, one that prioritizes people and planet over profit.” The new group calls itself “theB team.”

With Obamacare’s grand opening less than six months away, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported on Wednesday that the government has already blown numerous deadlines for setting up the health exchanges that are to provide insurance for nine million people.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent responsible for giving confidential conservative and Tea Party tax documents to the left-leaning journalism group ProPublica was never put on leave. Instead, she merely received “formal admonishment” for actions that Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration

A report released onTuesday by the National Council on Teacher Quality finds that U.S. teachertraining is “an industry of mediocrity” that produces teachers without aclue. “The results were dismal,” said Kate Walsh, president of the bipartisanresearch group. Walsh told Reutersthat

In a Monday interview with Charlie Rose, President Barack Obama said FederalReserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has “already stayed a lot longer than he wantedor he was supposed to.” Rose asked Obama if he would consider reappointing Bernanke. Obama dodgedthe question.

British prosecutors are expected to file criminal charges against UBS AG and Citigroup trader Tom Hayes for allegedly attempting to rig the all-important Libor (London Interbank Offered Rate), reports the Wall Street Journal. The Libor is a benchmark interest rate

On Sunday, Ranking member of the Armed Services Committee Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) blasted the Defense Department’s plan to “contribute $170 million to a massive federal giveaway to private biofuels companies.” He said the plan is further evidence of the

One of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s most trusted advisers and former deputy chief of staff, Huma Abedin–the wife of disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner–is under fire from Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) for possible influence peddling as part of a six-figure crony

On Friday, President Barack Obama rewarded some of his top 2012 campaign fundraisers with appointments to coveted European ambassadorships. John Emerson, who raised $500,000 for Obama, was given an ambassadorship to Germany. In the 2008 campaign, Emerson raised between $100,000

Asian markets took a pounding on Thursday as Japanese stocks plunged 6.4%, rendering big losses in China and Southeast Asia. The Nikkei has lost 21% from its high of 15,942 five-and-a-half years ago. Analysts say today’s mass sell-off is an

In a development likely to enrage President Barack Obama’s environmental supporters, last year U.S. crude-oil production experienced the largest increase in U.S. history and the largest jump of any country on the planet. Spurred on by fracking and the shale

Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Texas Governor Rick Perry are engaged in a verbal shootout over which state produces the most and best jobs. Perry blasted New York’s “the new New York” slogan while gearing up for

A new Inspector General audit finds that former Rep. Heather Wilson’s (R-NM) consulting firm bagged over $450,000 for shoddy and questionable work for four Energy Department facilities. “It sounds like nearly a half million in tax dollars is gone for

Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) pledged his support Wednesday for the House version of the $940 billion farm bill, roughly 80% of which will go to fund food stamps over the next ten years. “Doing nothing means we get no changes

Private equity titan Carlyle Group, which has over $176 billion in assets, has a 67% stake in Booz Allen Hamiliton, the 24,500-person firm who hired the man responsible for the major National Security Agency (NSA) leaks, Edward J. Snowden. The New

An analysis by Pepperdine Law Professor Robert Anderson finds that 95% of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) lawyers who made donations to candidates in the 2012 presidential race gave to President Barack Obama’s campaign. “Lawyers are relevant because they are the

On Monday, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) circulated an internal memorandum announcing that Holly Paz–the Obama donor-turned-IRS director of Tax Exempt Organizations who sat in on 36 of 41 Inspector General interviews with IRS employees–will be replaced.  It is presently

Disgraced Internal Revenue Service (IRS) director of Exempt Organizations Lois Lerner, who oversaw the IRS division that targeted conservative groups, still has computer access despite having been placed on paid leave on May 21. An IRS source tells National Review

Data compiled by Senate  Budget Committee Ranking Member Jeff Sessions’ (R-AL) staff reveal that over the next ten years taxpayers will spend over five times as much on food stamps as on job training and education for America’s veterans. Food

On Monday, President Barack Obama nominated Princeton University Professor Jason Furman to chair the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). “Furman is one of the most brilliant economic minds of his generation,” Obama said. “Don’t take my word for it,

At least 436 Department of Health and Human Services employees–and possibly more at the White House Office of Management and Budget–received advance notice of an $8 billion Medicare decision that sent private health insurers’ stocks soaring. The Department of Justice

China will loan Venezuela $4 billion and Mexico $1 billion for oil development.  China also plans to strike a $1 billion trade deal with Mexico and is planning hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to Costa Rica, Trinidad, and

Countries around the world are blazing past the United States in job creation. That was the New York Times’ conclusion after analyzing the latest round of figures from Friday’s Labor Department report. As of March 2013, U.S. employment was down

Two former U.S. intelligence officials tell NBC News that the National Security Agency’s (NSA) massive trawling program previously scooped up the private email messages and phone calls of innocent Americans with no ties to terrorism. This prompted the Obama Justice

The National Security Agency’s top-secret slide presentation detailing the PRISM system that collects the contents of emails, video and web chat, and photos states that PRISM is the biggest contributor of information to President Barack Obama’s daily intelligence briefing, known

On Thursday, Wall Street Journal writer Kimberley A. Strassel cataloged a series of 2010 statements by President Barack Obama and his surrogates at the time the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued its first “Be On The Lookout” (BOLO) list for