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The Tea Party will be the downfall of this country. President Obama wants to create jobs for the unemployed and the Tea Party wants to cut jobs. Why don't you...

The shutdown could have been avoided. How many believe the legislators cut too much with their "all cuts" proposal? November's election was an outcry from the voters to bring back...

On one of the major TV networks, there is a game show called "Jeopardy." On this show, the contestants have a series of questions to answer, and each player has...

This is a quiz. In what American state do the 836 families with the highest income, those with annual income of more than $3 million, pay a total state and...

From The Associated Press An excerpt from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States: On fed spending cuts: Lawmakers in Washington are expected to pass another short-term spending bill...

Congratulations to Mickey Rooney for speaking up in America about the abuse of our elderly. We thank him. Now would be a good time for all of us to join...

State and federal governments are broke. The left and the right have very different ideas on how to get government back on solid financial ground. Compromise seems unlikely going directly...

I understand how elected local government leaders may feel the sky is falling.

In his State of the Union address, President Obama missed his Sputnik moment, "I'm a centrist." He reiterated failed government policies. The nation is hurting. Families' food, energy, and medical...

Now that Nancy Pelosi is no longer Speaker of the House, the final accounting of her tenure has been all added up. Under her leadership the national debt has risen...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats controlling the House are promising to freeze the budgets of most Cabinet departments while wrapping Congress' unfinished annual spending bills into a single catchall measure. The...

Two days after President Obama signed the since failed $787 billion stimulus bill in February 2009, Rick Santelli called for a new Tea Party on the floor of the Chicago...

On Oct. 15, the Treasury Department reported that the nation's budget deficit in the 12 months ended Sept. 30 was $1.29 trillion. That means the government had to borrow 37...