Here comes Team Obama's carbon tax
By Phil Kerpen
Published March 21, 2013
FoxNews.com
The Treasury Department’s Office of Environment and Energy has finally begun to turn over documents about its preparations for a carbon tax in response to transparency warrior Chris Horner’s Freedom of Information Act request. The documents provide solid...
The startling rise of disability in America
By Chana Joffe-Walt In the past three decades, the number of Americans who are on disability has skyrocketed. The rise has come even as medical advances have allowed many more people to...
Mismanaged State Pensions Bill Taxpayers for Shortfall
By ERIC PIANIN, DAVID FRANCIS, The Fiscal Times March 22, 2013
For years, state and local governments have been playing imaginative or patently dishonest games with...
Senate passes its first budget in four years on 50 to 49 vote
By Erik Wasson- 03/23/13 05:00 AM ET
The Senate early Saturday passed its first budget in four years by a vote of 50 to 49.
The close vote was a big victory for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Budget Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-Wash.), who had to overcome...
