TheHill.com - NRA forces Pelosi retreat Still, the NRA has aroused the ire of some gun-rights Democrats by appearing to tell House leaders that an amendment has to be considered. Some Blue Dogs say that amounts to telling the House how to run its business. “The D.C. vote bill needs to pass,� sai...

Obama Budget Would Create $634 Billion Health-Care Fund President Obama intends to release a budget tomorrow that creates a 10-year, $634 billion “reserve fund” to partially pay for a vast expansion of the U.S. health care system, an overhaul that many experts project will cost as much a...

EXCLUSIVE-Sen Kerry targets bailout bank over golf soiree WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior Democratic senator said Tuesday he will introduce a bill to end “the extravagant spending practices of U.S. banks” Really, Senator Fake War Hero? You’re going to stop “extravagant spendi...

Obama’s test: a nation of Santellis - Andie Coller - POLITICO.com Michigan Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm, also a Democrat, agrees: “This is not directed at those who didn’t play by the rules,â€� she says. “It’s directed at trying to fix a system so everyone can stay in their homes and so t...

Rent seeking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In economics, rent seeking occurs when an individual, organization or firm seeks to make money by manipulating the economic and/or legal environment rather than by trade and production of wealth. This term is becoming more fashionable within the commen...

The RAT hiding deep inside the stimulus bill In the name of accountability and transparency, Congress has given the RAT Board the authority to ask “that an inspector general conduct or refrain from conducting an audit or investigation.� If the inspector general doesn’t want to follow the wishe...

Dems abandon Burris - Manu Raju and Martin Kady II - Politico.com Durbin, who earlier in the day told the Chicago Tribune that “at this point, his future in the Senate seat is in question,” said in the statement that “Every day there are more and more revelations about contacts wit...

Rush to Wait by Thomas Sowell on National Review Online The big story last week was the incredible congressional rush to pass a bill that was more than 1,000 pages long in just two days — after which it sat on the president’s desk for three days while the Obamas were away on a holiday. There is ...

Perjury or not, Burris shows he is at least a liar :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Mark Brown I’ll leave it to the proper investigative bodies to decide whether Roland Burris committed perjury last month in testimony before the Illinois House impeachment committee. From a strict legal perspective, may...

It is the credit bubble, stupid | Samizdata.net And when the state decides to fix that by motivating more people to borrow by reducing interest rates to almost zero, that of course makes no damn difference at all because lenders, not borrowers, are the ones suddenly back in touch with reality. And j...