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Dec 20 2019
News
Partisanship and democracy's other ills holding down the economy, Harvard study says
The many problems with American democracy are a central reason the country has made so little progress in tackling major challenges during a decade of economic growth, Harvard Business School concludes in an ambitious report out this week.
More precisely, the report blames the Democratic and Republican parties for looking to advance partisan advantage over the public interest — wasting
The FulcrumDec 23 2020
News
Trump Pushes for Bigger Stimulus Checks for Americans, Opposes Pork Spending in COVID Relief Bill
President Trump unleashed an attack on what he called the wasteful spending buried inside the COVID relief bill Tuesday night, criticizing lawmakers in a Twitter video for not doing enough to help Americans.
"Congress found plenty of money for foreign countries, lobbyists and special interests while sending the bare minimum to the American people who need it," he said.
"It's
CBNDec 22 2020
Analysis
No, Joe, We’re Not in a ‘Climate Crisis’
He doesn’t want to get us thinking about climate change, but rather to suspend all rational thought about the issue.
Former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s famous axiom is that a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. It’s an even worse thing to manufacture.
Although President-elect Joe Biden obviously disagrees. Creating an unwarranted sense of drama and urgency around climate
Rich LowryOct 14 2020
News
Trump and Biden to hold dueling town halls on rival networks in lieu of canceled second debate
President Trump and Joe Biden have agreed to hold separate televised town hall events in lieu of the second presidential debate, which was canceled amid the president's COVID-19 diagnosis.
The president's town hall, which was announced on Wednesday morning, will take place on NBC News in Miami, Florida, and it will be moderated by Savannah Guthrie on Thursday night. Simultaneously, the
Washington ExaminerJul 21 2020
Opinion
FBI knew ‘collusion’ was a nothing-burger, but kept fake scandal alive anyway
‘We have not seen evidence of any individuals affiliated with the Trump team in contact with [Russian intelligence officers].”
How much wasted time on pointless investigations could have been prevented had Peter Strzok, then one of the FBI’s top counterintelligence officials who was spearheading the bureau’s Trump-Russia investigation, said this publicly one month into President Trump’s
New York Post (Opinion)May 11 2015
News
Plan to bury uranium in Utah scrutinized as decision nears
In a barren landscape of scrub just off a major Utah highway, a 10-foot-deep pit the size of about 75 football fields could soon house a kind of nuclear waste that grows more radioactive for 2 million years.
EnergySolutions' plan to bring up to 700,000 metric tons of depleted uranium to Utah from a federal stockpile has been on hold through six years of legal and political wrangling.
KSLJun 03 2012
News
As Costs Soar, Taxpayers Target Pensions of Cops and Firefighters
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Firefighter Brian Endicott got an early taste of the pension battle brewing here when a man at the grocery store angrily pointed to the steaks in his cart.
"Who do you think you are, wasting taxpayers' money on a meal like this?" the man yelled at 46-year-old Mr. Endicott, who was shopping for dinner with three other firefighters from San Jose Fire Station No. 1.
Wall Street Journal (News)Jun 11 2014
News
Demand-Side Policy Gave Us the Big Economic Fizzle
Nearly five years since the recession ended in June 2009, economic policy discussions continue to focus on dubious short-term countercyclical measures to “stimulate demand.” The Economic Report of the President for 2014 wastes an entire chapter rehashing the jobs supposedly “saved or created” by the 2009 fiscal stimulus and Federal Reserve easing. That analysis relies on notoriously inaccurate
Cato InstituteJan 03 2015
News
Obama administration prepares regulatory rush in 2015
The Obama administration just wrapped up another big year for regulations and executive actions -- pushing through everything from a new type of retirement account to a deportation reprieve affecting millions of illegal immigrants to long-awaited standards for coal waste.
But thousands of proposed regulations remain on the table and could set the stage for a rush of rulemaking in the
Fox News (Online News)Mar 09 2021
News
Pandemic Relief Bill Fulfills Biden’s Promise to Expand Obamacare, for Two Years
President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill will fulfill one of his central campaign promises, to fill the holes in the Affordable Care Act and make health insurance affordable for more than a million middle-class Americans who could not afford insurance under the original law.
The bill, which will most likely go to the House for a final vote on Wednesday, includes a
New York Times (News)