FAIR TV: NYT Counts Drone Victims, CBS=CEOs, AP’s Iran Nukes Hoax
The new episode of FAIR TV is here! CBS tells us what CEOs think about the "fiscal cliff" and the New York Times counts drone victims– but not very many of them. And did the Associated Press fall for...
View ArticleHarris-Perry: Obama ‘playing Godfather’ with GOP on fiscal cliff
Saturday morning on MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry,” host Melissa Harris-Perry said that President Barack Obama is “playing Godfather” by making the Republicans an offer “they better not refuse” on the...
View ArticleRush Limbaugh: ‘Democrat Orgasm’ Happens If We Go Over Fiscal Cliff
What happens if we go over the fiscal cliff? A "Democrat orgasm," according to Rush Limbaugh.Limbaugh took a hit at Obama while addressing the topic of the ongoing fiscal cliff negotiations on his...
View ArticleGeithner invites GOP counteroffer in fiscal cliff talks
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is ready to entertain Republican proposals for spending cuts, but GOP lawmakers must first commit to higher tax rates on the rich and specify what additional...
View ArticleMichael Malice: The Daedalus Dilemma
We leave the conservative and the progressive, unable to understand each other, angry and frustrated, in a prison neither of their making nor of their own choosing -- but a prison nonetheless.Read...
View ArticleAusterity: The real “fiscal cliff”
“Debtpocalypse” looms. Depending on who wins out in Washington, we’re told, we will either free fall over the fiscal cliff or take a terrifying slide to the pit at the bottom. Grim as these scenarios...
View ArticleDefense Executives Willing To Accept Budget Cuts, Higher Taxes
Top executives from four major defense and aerospace firms sent a message to Congress and the Obama administration today: the nation expects its elected leaders to lead and the well-paid executives are...
View ArticleDoes This Look Like a Party Serious About Spending Cuts?
As noted on Reason 24/7, several conservatives in the House have been removed from seats on the House Budget and House Financial Services Committees. From The Hill: Reps. ;David Schweikert ;of Arizona...
View ArticleObama to Republicans: Raise taxes on rich or no fiscal cliff deal
US President Barack Obama warned Republicans Tuesday there would be no deal on averting a potentially disastrous fiscal crisis without them caving in to his demand to raise tax rates on the rich. But...
View ArticleBoehner: Obama must step up on fiscal cliff
Speaker John Boehner told his House Republican colleagues in a closed meeting Wednesday that if President Barack Obama doesn’t like … Read More
View ArticleWhite House rejects Republican fical offer
http://www.youtube.com/v/hQC3mJMX3NA?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata Continue at source: White House rejects Republican fical offer
View ArticleThe Fiscal Cliff – An Ant Strong Arming an Elephant
A government of, for, and by the people. Where did we lose sight of this simple concept? … Read More
View ArticleAmericans Would Support Public Option If It Reduced Deficit, Says...
Health care costs have become one focal point of the fiscal cliff negotiations, with Republicans offering a plan that would include major cuts to Medicare.But revisiting the public option, an approach...
View ArticleSmith & Wesson sales spike 48 percent amid mass shootings, Obama re-election
The 2012 campaign season and a year of high-profile shootings have resulted in big profits for one of America’s top firearms companies. Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation announced on Thursday that...
View ArticleWhy Colorado’s Marijuana Legalization Initiative Could Be In Vain
On Election Day, voters in Colorado and Washington passed ballot measures legalizing marijuana, setting the stage for a new, legal commercial marijuana market in both states. These electoral victories...
View ArticlePaul Abrams: Let’s Have It Out: Conduct a Binding Referendum on Democratic...
What if the fiscal cliff were settled by each party submitting its fiscal plan in a final bill that also provided for a national referendum on the alternative plans to be held on January 31, 2013?Read...
View ArticleFitch: ‘Fiscal cliff’ would cost US sovereign rating
Win McNamee / Getty Images / AFPThe looming ‘fiscal cliff’ in the United States is the biggest threat to the world economy and can cost the country its AAA sovereign rating, according to the Fitch...
View ArticleNick Gillespie at Reuters on Economic Inequality & Mobility
This week, Reuters is running an excellent series on income inequality and the Great Recession. Check it out here.I've contributed a commentary piece titled, "Examine inequality's causes before...
View ArticleWhite House: Boehner Didn’t Have The Votes For His Own Plan
A bitter moment in the fiscal cliff talks. Image by Gary Cameron / Reuters WASHINGTON — White House officials believe that John Boehner is proposing an alternative fiscal plan because he can't bring...
View ArticleNick Gillespie Discusses the GOP’s Plan B for the Fiscal Cliff on The Willis...
ReasonTV's Nick Gillespie discusses House Speaker John Boenhner's Plan B for the fiscal cliff and the government selling its stake in General Motors on the Fox Business Channel's Willis Report....
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