Would you suggest to yourself that you are a fool? Would you say that you are stupid concerning money management? Would you definitely state that you have never had an original idea in your head!
Didn't think so.
So why are you allowing
The Postal Service is legally prohibited from taking tax dollars. But in order to stay afloat, the agency has been borrowing from the US Treasury: At last count, it owes the government $10.2 billion. It lost $3.8 billion in the recent year
A federal judge found poor maintenance of a major navigation channel by the Army Corps of Engineers led to some of the worst flooding after Hurricane Katrina. A major victory for homeowners who suffered damage in the aftermath of the storm.
Although there are no formal laws in this town against drying laundry outside, a town official called to ask her to stop drying clothes in the sun. And she received two anonymous notes from neighbors saying they did not want to see her underwear flap
Today, County Attorney Andrew Thomas announced his office will decline to prosecute motorists on criminal charges whose cases are based solely on photo-radar evidence. Recently, the Arizona Department of Public Safety has referred cases to the Maric
From the English and French upper classes and nobility came the “fops”. These over-dressed dandies were more concerned with style than substance. Almost 10% of Congress is related to another person who’s “served”; are politicians the new nobility? Is
A man set fire to the New York City 911 “Memorial”, revealing that, despite, millions in funds for “planning”, eight years after 911, the victim’s remains and the place to pay respects is a temporary tent next to the Coroner’s office.
A temporary measure that would keep the U.S. government running through December 18 cleared Congress on Thursday, giving lawmakers more time to work on spending bills for the current fiscal year.
WASHINGTON — Louis Freeh, the former head of the FBI, is now an Italian citizen. Officials at the Italian Embassy in Washington say Freeh was made a citizen at a ceremony Friday. An announcement on the embassy's Web site says Freeh was granted citize
One environmental group is dedicated to the goal of ending commercial development on the vast public lands of the West -- even if it means no cattle, sheep, solar farms, wind farms, natural gas or oil development or vitally needed new transmission li
New York state's highest court has just bitch slapped a bunch of landlords who think they can provide apartments for the people of NYC at a rate that reflects the market rate.
Since its March launch, the government’s $50 billion program to prevent foreclosures has been marked by confusion, delays and doubts. A little-noticed conclusion in a government report released on Wednesday reveals that the program’s auditor is no di
New Jersey taxpayers are sending almost $1 million a month to a partnership run by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. for protection against rising interest costs on bonds that the state redeemed more than a year ago
A coalition of black, Latino and Asian lawmakers on Thursday expressed opposition to a proposal that would require next year's census forms to ask about the status of a person's citizenship.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told CNSNews.com that after reviewing the Memorandum of Agreements between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and state and local law enforcement agencies in 23 states, the only agency to lose its auth
In my last article on these pages, I offered criticism of a New York Times article that had praised the Lincoln administration's property violations in pursuit of military objectives. Today I want to focus on a regular Wall Street Journal columnist w
Analysts at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods on Monday said the common shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are likely worthless even if the troubled mortgage-finance giants end up being recapitalized by the banking industry.
The federal government is facing a lawsuit over billions in unclaimed bonds that date back to the patriotic fundraising efforts of World War II, leading to a showdown between states who say they should be given the money and a Treasury Department tha
This ain't the 'Broken Window' theory championed by Rudy, Billy and Howie in NYC in the early 90's. No, this is the 'Broken Window fallacy' of French economist Frederic Bastiast of the 50's (the 1850's, that is), and NYC mayor Mike Bloomberg is all o
Calling public service "the essence of our liberty," President Barack Obama urged Americans to step up and volunteer in their communities. "In the end, service binds us to each other and to our community and to our country in a way that nothing else
Conrad Black on U. S. President Barack Obama: "This emperor still has no clothes, and it is not racism to notice it."
The whole Obama era to date has been wasted in a historic, amateurish botch of the health-care issue. This began as a crusade
What the hell is this about?
A member of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, a.k.a. The Plunge Protection Team, is out spooking investors.
The Department of Justice has finally admitted it in court papers: The nation’s telecom companies are an arm of the government — at least when it comes to secret spying.
Fortunately, a judge says that relationship isn’t enough to squash a rights
For years, the country's makeshift network of payday lenders and check cashers has operated with little competition or federal regulation. But as the financial crisis sparks a new wave of consumer protections, lawmakers and the private sector alike a
The Obama administration is taking on Cheerios. And popular cold remedies and swimming pool drains and rhinestones on children's clothing. A handful of Obama appointees have been quietly exercising their power over the trappings of daily life. They a
AKRON, Ohio, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- DownsizeDC.org, the creators
of the Read the Bills Act, which inspired a movement, say that a proposed
72-hour rule, permitting the public to see legislation before Congress votes,
is "worthless." Bu
Householders could be fined £1,000 if they throw food scraps and potato peelings into the dustbin under a Government 'zero waste' policy.
They will be forced to sift through their rubbish for anything that can be recycled, reused, rotted or burnt fo