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November 13, 2008
Who wants higher taxes? Vice president-elect Joe Biden calls paying tax “patriotic.” Add New York Times resident wizard-of-smart and columnist Thomas Friedman to that list.
Friedman appeared on CNBC’s Nov. 13 “Squawk on the Street” to…
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November 13, 2008
Call it a case of bad timing. With oil prices down significantly in recent months, the NBC “Nightly News” on Nov. 12 called for the federal government to address high heating oil prices facing the poor this winter.
“If you’ve looked at…
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November 12, 2008
Still more than two months from his inauguration, President-elect Barack Obama has started promoting his policies and naming some of his advisers. And according to one historian, he could be developing a plan to permanently block drilling in…
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November 12, 2008
Call it a textbook example of liberal policies pushing toward a socially engineered society.
The Nov. 11 “CBS Evening News” featured California schools that were forced to ban old-fashioned fundraising bake sales thanks to state nutrition…
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November 10, 2008
Economists generally frown upon raising taxes in times of an economic downturn. Historians point to President Herbert Hoover’s Revenue Act of 1932 as an example – “the largest – and most poorly timed – peacetime tax increase in American history…
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November 10, 2008
Is a federal government rescue of General Motors do or die for the U.S. economy? With the automaker on the verge of collapse, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Harry Reid, D-Nev., say so, but Francesco Guerrera, U…
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November 7, 2008
As President-elect Barack Obama sorts out his cabinet and determines who will guide policy through his administration, it’s probably a good thing New York Times columnist Paul Krugman isn’t on his short list.
Krugman appeared on CNBC’s…
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November 7, 2008
Glen Meert, a small business owner in Elkhart, Ind., has found himself – and his neighbors – thrust into the national spotlight. And it’s not for anything good.
The national media have swarmed Elkhart in recent weeks, using its extreme…
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November 5, 2008
What’s in your wallet? Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean would like to know.
Dean and Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan were speakers at a luncheon at the National Press Club Nov. 5, where both…
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November 4, 2008
It’s this type of political rhetoric that brings out the “Joe the Plumber” in all of us.
Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., thinks it’s a “simplistic notion” for people who are successful in their bid to become wealthy to hold on to that wealth and…
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