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The latest news on the environmental regulation front is that the average household’s energy costs will increase by 40 to 60 percent by 2014 as a result of EPA environmental regulation. These rates will “necessarily skyrocket” in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by coal-fired generating plants. We’ve been told that greenhouse gas emissions are the [...]

A federal employee who is on the verge of losing her job confronted President Obama about her status during a CBS News Town Hall meeting broadcast on Thursday morning. Karen Gallo, an employee at the National Zoo told the President that she’s four weeks away from losing her job because of budget cuts. She went [...]

I’ve become something of a news junkie over the past decade or so and as a result there are certain truths I’ve come to expect from our media watchdogs.  Mainly, that Republicans hate workers and Democrats are their savior. Why just in the last few months the media has convinced me that Republicans hate unions, union [...]

We can fix our deficit problems by taxing the rich!! This has become the de facto position of the Democrat Party. Forget spending cuts! We don’t need ‘em! We’ll just tax the rich until the budget is balanced and we’ve paid off our debt. There’s one huge problem with that: It won’t work, it can’t [...]