“So far, so good,” as the man who jumped from the Empire State Building said as he passed the 50th floor. That’s the assessment of the Hudson Institute’s Irwin…
Over significant opposition, the Senate approved tax evader Timothy Geithner as secretary of the Treasury, a USA Today blog reports. The vote was 60 to 34. Several Democrats, Tom Harkin…
In recent years 61 terrorists released by the United States have returned to their careers, Reuters reports. AFP reports today that two former inmates at Guantanamo Bay have…
Regardless of the disclosure agreement the William J. Clinton Foundation entered into with the Obama administration in order to facilitate the confirmation of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, the…
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…
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…
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…