October 26, 2009 | 1:41 pm
Democrats Taking from the Poor?!
Jonathan Cohn
As political pressure has reduced the price tag of expanding coverage to below $1 trillion over ten years, many observers assumed Democrats would react by trimming financial assistance for the middle class–that is, people making between twice and four times the poverty line, or between [...]
10/27/09 5:53 PM EDT
House panel makes ACORN eligible to share regulatory authority
By: MARK TAPSCOTT
Editorial Page Editor
Besides giving advice on avoiding taxes and fraudulently getting home loans for brothels featuring 13-year-old Salvadoran girls illegally smuggled into this country, ACORN officials could soon be helping regulate your local bank, thanks to an amendment adopted by Rep. Barney [...]
OCTOBER 28, 2009
Freaked Out Over SuperFreakonomics
By BRET STEPHENS
Suppose for a minute—which is about 59 seconds too long, but that’s for another column—that global warming poses an imminent threat to the survival of our species. Suppose, too, that the best solution involves a helium balloon, several miles of garden hose and a harmless stream of sulfur [...]
10/27/09 4:38 PM EDT
FEMA says it can’t show return on $29 billion in spending
By: MARK TAPSCOTT
Editorial Page Editor
Federal Emergency Management Agency deputy administrator Timothy Manning told a congressional panel today that his organization had spent $5 million during the last 18 months reviewing how it spent $29 billion since 2002, but still doesn’t know what it got for [...]
U.S. NEWS OCTOBER 28, 2009
GMAC Asks for Fresh Lifeline
Lender in Advanced Talks for Third Slug of Taxpayer Cash — at Least $2.8 Billion More
By DAN FITZPATRICK and DAMIAN PALETTA
In a stark reminder of how some battered financial firms remain dependent on government lifelines, GMAC Financial Services Inc. and the Treasury Department are in advanced talks [...]
The President’s homepage hosts a series of vile, anti-American, anti-Semitic posts.
The Democrats’ addiction to adolescent hopes and dreams.
The anti-Israel Friends of Sabeel calls for dissolving the Jewish state.
