…time; they cannot serve as the rationale for cost-cutting during a national emergency. A Presidential Commission. We should create a new presidential commission to analyze the postal landscape, study innovations,…

…were reviewed by the Postal Regulatory Commission for an Advisory Opinion. Under a provision in the postal reform bill that just passed the House and that’s now heading to the Senate, we may…

…investigation. I am sure there will be one for 2024 also. “Trump commission did not find widespread voter fraud,” PBS News 2018: Republican President Donald Trump convened a commission to…

…we quickly went into a deficit that in 2011 reached $64.5 billion. Similarly, he says, the U.S. International Trade Commission predicted that normalizing trade relations with China would lead to…

Reposted from New Deal 2.0 with permission from author. Deficit Hawks Down: The Misconstrued “Facts” Behind Their Hype by James K. Galbraith Economist James K. Galbraith attends a Pete Peterson-funded…

…Boehner paid for simply negotiating (again: necessarily semi-secretly) with Obama. I would venture to suggest that those negotiations didn’t cost Obama a single vote, or really any political capital –…

by cactus Heritage Looks at the McCain and Obama Plans Its that time again. Heritage looks at the McCain and Obama plans and tells us which one is best. (This…

…However, such these labels do not accurately describe either candidate. And it does not fully portray the candidate, Mr Obama, who has the more optimistic vision of trade. The conventional…

…missed the purpose of Obama’s Monday press conference. Obama was explaining what the debt ceiling law actually is–and what it is not. An explanation that was (and is) necessity because…

…leases. Romney first claimed, falsely, that there has been a 14% reduction in oil production from drilling on federal lands since Obama took office. After Obama repeatedly interjected that that…