White House says ‘eat your peas’ to float the sinking housing market By The Washington Times Tuesday, August 30, 2011 Today’s glut of unwanted homes on the market, with unending foreclosures in some parts of the country, is a serious drag holding back any chance of economic recovery. Instead of eating our peas – as [...]

By Dave Boyer The Washington Times Tuesday, August 30, 2011 In a preview of a battle likely to be waged throughout the fall, President Obama told GOP House Speaker John A. Boehner in a letter Tuesday that the administration is considering seven regulations that would each cost the U.S. economy more than $1 billion per [...]

By Rep. Phil Gingery & M.D. Published August 30, 2011 FoxNews.com What do one of the leading credit-rating agencies, politicians, and American families all have in common? Dissatisfaction with the way the federal government has been handling the growing economic crisis that’s destroying our nation. For the first time in our country’s history, our credit [...]

By Colin Hanna Published August 30, 2011 FoxNews.com During the debt ceiling debate, Congress came close to passing Cut, Cap, and Balance, the one plan that would have finally forced the federal government to live within its means and end our unsustainable patterns of overspending and over-borrowing. It was the only plan that had real [...]

By Xuan Thai and Tom Cohen, CNN August 31, 2011 6:16 a.m. EDT Washington (CNN) — As rescuers raced Tuesday to free people trapped by floodwaters caused by Hurricane Irene, Washington politicians bickered over how to pay for it. The same budget arguments that nearly brought the first government default in history earlier this month [...]

Aug 30, 2011 (AP)  WASHINGTON – As much as $60 billion in U.S. funds has been lost to waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade through lax oversight of contractors, poor planning and corruption, an independent panel investigating U.S. wartime spending estimates.  In its final report to Congress, the Commission on [...]

By BRIAN ROSS (@brianross) , MATTHEW COLE and AVNI PATEL Aug. 31, 2011 Ten years after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, the 9/11 Commission report card on making this country safer from terrorist attacks revealed today U.S. security scored very few A’s, lots of C’s and incompletes, and at least two significant F’s. Despite [...]

By Dave Wedge and Laurel J. Sweet Tuesday, August 30, 2011 President Obama’s accused drunken-driving uncle — who was busted after a near collision with a Framingham cop — has had a valid Social Security number for at least 19 years, despite being an illegal immigrant ordered to be deported back to Kenya, the Herald [...]

By Margaret Chadbourn WASHINGTON | Wed Aug 31, 2011 6:40am EDT (Reuters) – The Obama administration is considering unveiling new plans next week to revive the ailing housing market and reduce foreclosures, including an effort to help troubled borrowers refinance their mortgages. The administration has been working for weeks on how to implement a mortgage [...]

Aug 30, 2011 By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A judge held a secret hearing Tuesday in the prosecution of a former CIA operative accused of leaking government secrets about Iran to a New York Times reporter, a case where prosecutors are asking for permission to present secret evidence to a jury [...]