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The Bush-43 tax cuts are due to expire automatically on January 1, 2011.  In the midst of huge and escalating deficits, this is one area in which activists President Obama and his Democrat Congress appear content to remain passive.  So ...Read more

Americans’ top concerns these days are unemployment, deficits and debt.  The rate of unemployment seems stuck at a level economically and ethically unacceptable, and efforts to bring it down appear ineffective and extremely expensive, especially in the context of runaway ...Read more

“Hello, Ohio!” Barack Obama began his speech in Elyria on January 22. “Everybody, please,uh, please, uh, please relax.  We’re going to be here for a little bit…”

The content and tone of this speech were not, however, designed to relax.  The ...Read more

Barney Frank, D-MA, takes  gamblers’  interests to heart.  As Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee (HFSC), he plans to replace the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), a regulation made in the “midnight hours” of the previous Administration, with ...Read more

Last week, President Obama called for a second “one-time” payment of $250 to each of more than 50 million seniors receiving Social Security benefits. Some 7 million recipients of other government entitlements — veterans, the disabled, and retirees ...Read more