By L. Brent Bozell (Archive) · Saturday, February 4, 2012 While Democrats mock Mitt Romney for his alleged lack of interest in the “very poor” and focus their political pitch on income inequality, one can’t help noticing the Obamas running around to $35,000-a-head fundraisers with the very rich and very famous in New York City [...]

February 4, 2012 By Yossi Gestetner Every time you challenge Democrats on the bad shape of the economy three years (and $5 trillion) into Barack Obama’s presidency, you get hit with something like “when Obama came into office, the economy was so bad,” etc. So let’s remember exactly how things were when Obama came into [...]

Posted 02/03/2012 06:54 PM ET Taxes: President Obama’s campaign to soak rich investors is already getting complicated. His small-business breaks would benefit those he says are paying less than a fair share. The State of the Union speech is fast fading into history, but one of its themes — raising taxes on the rich — [...]

Posted 02/03/2012 07:02 PM ET     View Enlarged Image Jobs: Of course it’s good news that 243,000 new jobs were created in January, shaving the unemployment rate to 8.3%. But thanks to massive policy errors by the White House, we’re still way below where we should be. President Obama, speaking in Arlington, Va., immediately took credit for [...]

O’Malley’s tax-the-rich schemes will impoverish the Free State By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Friday, February 3, 2012 Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley may be more skilled at implementing President Obama’s agenda than the White House itself. The Democratic governor is bringing the same big-spending, high-tax and class-warfare policies to the Free State. It’s going [...]

Congress should investigate cooked employment books By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Friday, February 3, 2012 The White House hyped the news Friday that January payrolls had risen by 243,000. The hitch is the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) also dropped 1.2 million from the calculated workforce. Somehow this net loss of a million [...]

By John Lott Published February 03, 2012 FoxNews.com Three years after Obama became president, even the official unemployment rate still remains high. The newly released 8.3 percent unemployment rate is still a half a percentage point higher than when he took office. But that still might be looking at the bright side. If we include [...]

By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. Published: February 3, 2012 If you thought the Republican primaries had turned ugly, wait till you see what it takes to win an Air Force contract nowadays. The feud between Hawker Beechcraft and Sierra Nevada Corporation over the Light Air Support contract has escalated from the usual appeals to the [...]

Feb 4, 2012 (CBS/AP)  Last Updated at 7:23 a.m. Eastern. WASHINGTON — Dozens of U.S. Park Police officers in riot gear and on horseback converged before dawn Saturday on one of the nation’s last remaining Occupy sites. Officers arrived and placed barricades around McPherson Square, a federal park near the White House where demonstrators have [...]

by Tyler Durden on 02/03/2012 A month ago, we joked when we said that for Obama to get the unemployment rate to negative by election time, all he has to do is to crush the labor force participation rate to about 55%. Looks like the good folks at the BLS heard us: it appears that [...]