The Obama administration will announce today a new $14 billion bailout program to bail out some people who are underwater on their mortgages. During the housing bubble, hundreds of thousands of people made such small down payments on their home that their mortgage was almost as big as the price of their home. When the
housing bubble ended, their home value fell to less than their mortgage. Thousa

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The gates of Aushwitz, an infamous Nazi concentration camp

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By Alan Caruba

Between the time tha… Continue

Unemployment went back up to 9.6%, as the nation shed 54,000 jobs in August. Yet Obama calls this “Recovery Summer.” This is the same Obama who complained about the economic recovery in 2004

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The Department of Veterans Affairs is spending millions annually on 314 run-down, vacant buildings, including a pink monkey house. “The buildings are home to rats, lead paint, wall-to-wall fungal growth, mold, radon, and spare tires.”

"Billions of stimulus dollars have been wasted on programs"

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Federal domestic spending increased by a record 16 percent this year, thanks to wasteful spending by the Obama Administration, such as its “huge economic stimulus package.”

The $862 billion stimulus package

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By Alan Caruba

The headlines report the way the Intergo… Continue

"Every single day, I'm pushing this economy forward, repairing the damage that's been done."

That's what President Barack Obama told reporters yesterday on his first day back from vacation on Martha's Vineyard. If he's what's kee… Continue

By Alan Caruba

As the nation’s children return to elementary and secondary schools, it is increasingly essential that their parents and communities coast to coast realize how poorly served they are and how their learning environment is increasingly tainted by a socialist agenda.

Our nation’s schools have long been factories of boredom, centers of academic incompetence. High school graduation rates have been in a fairly steady decline. At its peak in 1969, the rate was 77 percen… Continue

By Alan Caruba

As a child in the 1950s, I learned how to “duck and… Continue