Jan 30, 2012 By: John Melloy It was good times at the Federal Reserve five years ago: Low interest rates instituted by then-Fed Chief Alan Greenspan had housing prices booming, the stock market was rising and Fed members were—literally—laughing their way to the…well, central bank. History shows they may have been laughing a bit too [...]

By BYRON TAU | 1/30/12 12:27 PM EST The Obama reelection campaign is providing headquarters staff, field organizers and volunteers the ability to take campaign donations with their mobile phones. Campaign personnel are being issued Square mobile credit card readers, allowing them to process donations with their iPhone or Android phones, a campaign official tells [...]

Jan 30, 2012 By Adam Perez-Ruiz Calling himself “the legitimate heir to the Reagan movement,” Newt Gingrich recently cited a 1995 speech by Nancy Reagan in which the former First Lady said that her husband “passed on the torch” to him. “In 1995, Nancy Reagan at the Goldwater Institute was very generous,” Gingrich told voters [...]

Jan 30, 2012 During his live online interview Pres. Obama claims that his administration helped create 22 million jobs vic 3 million. View at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no3DtOP2eQQ&fea Social Bookmarking

A diminished Navy can’t meet its multiple global missions. Jan 28, 2012 WSJ President Obama plans to cut the Pentagon budget by half a trillion dollars or more in the next decade. He also wants the military to take on new missions, principally for the Navy to lead an American strategic “pivot” to the Asia-Pacific. [...]

Another green subsidy favorite goes belly up. Jan 30, 2012 WSJ President Obama keeps pushing the (Warren) Buffett rule that nobody making more than $1 million a year should pay less than 30% in taxes. He’d do better by the economy if he adopted a Solyndra Rule, in which no commercial energy company should receive [...]

According to the Census Bureau, 96% of parents classified as poor said their children were never hungry. Jan 30, 2012 WSJ By WARREN KOZAK We take it as a given that hunger stalks America. We hear it in the news, we see a myriad of government and private organizations set up to feed the hungry. [...]

As the Ten Commandments instruct, envy is corrosive to the individual and to those societies that embrace it. Jan 30, 2012 WSJ By ARYEH SPERO Who would have expected that in a Republican primary campaign the single biggest complaint among candidates would be that the front-runner has taken capitalism too far? As if his success [...]

The ‘movement’ faded as soon as the tents were removed. Jan 29, 2012 WSJ One of last year’s biggest news stories was presented as protesters taking over a park in New York’s financial district for two months. The Occupy Wall Street message was fuzzy, but many politicians picked up on the theme of dividing Americans [...]

Did the company’s collapse turn out to be a “greater turning point” than 9/11? Jan 27, 2012 WSJ By JAMES TARANTO “I predict that in the years ahead Enron, not Sept. 11, will come to be seen as the greater turning point in U.S. society.” It’s one of our all-time favorite quotes, and it was [...]