No one quite knows the full contents of the proposal, which is emerging in two and three hundred billion dollar dribs and drabs. But according to Tim Carney, the…
The Senate Finance Committee has voted 18 to 5 to approve the nomination of tax cheat Timothy Geithner as secretary of the Treasury, the New York Times reports. It…
A new website called ReadTheStimulus.org has gone online. The site, co-sponsored by the Heritage Foundation, National Taxpayers Union, Citizens Against Government Waste, Americans for Prosperity, and other organizations offers…
President Barack Obama and Chief Justice John Roberts agree with your humble narrator that the presidential oath of office matters. (See blog post from yesterday) During the inaugural ceremony…
The Senate has overwhelmingly approved the nomination of Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-New York) to be secretary of state, Fox News reports. Mrs. Clinton will presumably resign as a senator…
Jonathan Tolman at the Competitive Enterprise Institute writes that the current stimulus package under consideration is incredibly wasteful: Not all stimulus programs are created equal. If the goal of…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its worst Inauguration Day drop ever yesterday as Barack Obama was sworn in as president of the United States, Bloomberg reports. Markets seem…
At the Sundance Film Festival, protesters denounced founder Robert Redford, accusing him of being an enemy of the poor for opposing energy exploration, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. It’s…
Since nobody on Capitol Hill cares about the Constitution, this constitutes trivia. The musical interlude at the inauguration ceremony that extended for about six minutes after 12 Noon today, after Joe…
As Barack Obama is about to be sworn in as the 44th U.S. president in mere minutes, Americans seem to believe his economic stimulus package will help to revive the…