This is how a quagmire begins.
President Barack Obama is expected to add three years to the start date for withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
What had been a wild...
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How about an end to "earmarks" from congress. Might only be a billion here and billion there but pretty soon it adds up to real money. How about rolling back fede...
Of course we are the ones picking up the tab for all the government officials off jetting around. And Mrs. Prez of course has to add to her wardrobe and be one of the b...
Perhaps the saying “Ask and you shall receive” will be helpful in the city’s efforts to avoid a financial crisis.
The letter Mayor Maggie Stock sent about two weeks ago ...
Obama went to a G20 Summit. I believe the last one was held in Pittsburgh. Do you expect other countries to attend and not the USA?
This past summer, on a flight back...
So much for the deficit commission.
On Wednesday, the co-chairs of this once-promising group set out an astonishingly broad and frank plan to put the U.S. back on a soun...
Most consumers have never heard of “creative destruction.” But they still benefit from it — at least, they do when it isn’t forced on them.
Popularized by Austrian econo...
Unlike nearly all of the campaign rhetoric leading up to the Nov. 2 midterm election, the preliminary report from the deficit-reduction commission, released the other da...
Poverty is on the rise, according to census data, and now affects 14.3 percent of the population, up from 13.2 percent in 2008. A stumbling economy obviously explains th...
