Investor’s Business Daily Fiscal Policy: Sometimes the worst ideas are the most tempting. So it is with the value-added tax, or VAT — a potential money gusher for strapped governments but a massive new levy on all Americans. At least twice a decade, it seems, desperate politicians latch on to the idea of a VAT [...]
Politico: Never mind the green shoots. Gloom and doom are back. On Friday, national unemployment was reported at 9.8 percent with a loss of more than 260,000 jobs, leaving a staggering 15.1 million Americans out of work — a downside surprise to analysts who were expecting a better result for September. The Dow Jones, which [...]
KTVB: BELLEVUE — Just one week ago, we were bracing for a “cool down” from the 80s to the 60s. Now, it’s getting downright wintry. And in some parts of our viewing area, snow is piling up. This may be one for the record books, not only how early this heavy fall snowstorm is, but [...]
By: Susan Ferrechio Chief Congressional Correspondent As Congress lurches closer to a decision on an enormous overhaul of the American health care system, pressure is mounting on legislative leaders to make the final bill available online for citizens to read before a vote. Lawmakers were given just hours to examine the $789 billion stimulus plan, [...]
By Matthew Levitt and Michael Jacobson The Guardian, September 26, 2009 Standing with the leaders of France and Great Britain at the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh on Friday, Barack Obama disclosed Iran’s construction of yet another secret nuclear structure: a uranium enrichment facility near the holy city of Qom. How much hope should western powers [...]
AP NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana’s attorney general said Tuesday he has stepped up an investigation into embezzlement at ACORN nearly a decade ago, but the prosecutor and community activist group clashed over how much money was taken. Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell claimed the figure was $5 million, but ACORN said the sum hadn’t changed [...]
FOX News: WASHINGTON — A liberal Democratic senator questioned the roles of Obama administration policy “czars” Tuesday, but the White House denied it is using these officials to evade congressional scrutiny. Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., said Congress needs to know whether some of the czars make policy but have no obligation to submit to congressional [...]
Politico: Greg Craig, the top in-house lawyer for President Barack Obama, is getting the blame for botching the strategy to shut down Guantanamo Bay prison by January — so much so that he’s expected to leave the White House in short order. But sources familiar with the process believe Craig is being set-up as the [...]
USA Today: The left detests him, and some conservatives say he’s undermining the cause. The truth is, he must be doing something right. For a self-described rodeo clown who frequently admits he isn’t that bright, Glenn Beck must be doing something right. A de facto leader of the populist backlash against President Obama, he made [...]
The Independent: In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned [...]
