Debt Ceiling for Dummies: What You Need to Know Sure it’s boring, but this is important stuff. Read up. Get involved. Read more More
Outrage! Sen. Tom Coburn Blasts Taxpayer Money Spent on Robots That Fold Laundry A “scathing” new report put together by Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn cites a number of wasteful taxpayer-funded projects at the National Science Foundation as evidence that the foundation has too much money for their research. Read more More
Reagan the RINO: How Far Right Has the Right Shifted? Just look at the tax-raising, enemy-appeasing, immigrant-legalizer Read more More
Countdown to Shutdown Halted, Government Remains “Open for Business” A tentative deal has been reached to end the prospective federal government shutdown in America. The GOP has taken off the table the defunding of Planned Parenthood, while the Democrats have agreed to cut the budget by $39 billion. Details to come. Read more More
Explained: NPR Funding, Hairy Dogs & The Federal Budget Exactly how much does our federal government spend to fund National Public Radio? What do we get in return for that money? And how does that compare to other things we spend money on? And how is the federal budget like a hairy dog? Read more More
Kohn: Hey, Obama, Call It a Debt Floor, Not a Ceiling If our economy wasn’t structurally broken, our government wouldn’t need to borrow so much. That’s something about which partisans on both sides can agree. But why our economy is broken is where parties diverge, and where the choice of metaphor matters. Read more More