Author: Michael Laprarie

Well, they did it; from Yahoo! News: Acting swiftly, the Democratic-led House approved a bill Thursday to slap punishing taxes on big employee bonuses at firms bailed out by …

From The Washington Times: As he empathized with recession-weary Americans, President Obama arranged in the days just before he took office to secure a $500,000 advance for a children's …

FoxBusiness is currently featuring this graphic, courtesy of OpenSecrets.org: There's more on the AIG-Dodd story over at PoliGazette, where blogger Michael Merritt notes that the actual amount of money …

From the Los Angeles Times: "Hybrid car sales go from 60 to 0 at breakneck speed" Americans have cut back on buying vehicles of all types as the economy …

I've often heard liberals say that when tyranny comes to America, it will come in the disguise of religion. They are wrong of course; when tyranny comes to America,...

Drudge is reporting a curious yet poorly thought-out instance of overseas Obama worship: A German frozen food company hopes to raise sales with a new product: Obama fingers. The …

Recently, former Secretary of the Treasury and current Obama economic adviser Lawrence Summers addressed a private audience at a dinner sponsored by the US Chamber of Commerce. His remarks …

Yesterday, while grilling Treasury Secretary Timothy 'Wonder Boy' Geithner, Sen. Judd Gregg gave the Obama Administration a good old-fashioned thumping: In his opening statement, Gregg politely called the administration's …

With all of the recent talk about "the new Depression" that we may already be experiencing, I decided to crack open a few history books and do a little …

The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting: February's higher-than-anticipated U.S. jobless rate of 8.1 percent shook America on Friday morning. It was a stat not seen since December 1983 -- except …