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Morning Bell: Where Could We POSSIBLY Cut the Federal Budget?

February 26, 2013 at 7:35 am

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President Obama warns against sequestration with a backdrop of emergency responders. (Photo: JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom)

If you had to cut your family’s budget, where would you cut? Would you immediately start starving your children and stop wearing shoes? Of course not. You would look at the extras in your life—whether they were coffee shop lattes, movie tickets, or restaurant meals. It’s a good thing the … More

Morning Bell: Get the Federal Government Out of the Natural Gas Business

Amy Payne

February 11, 2013 at 7:06 am

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In North Dakota, people have jobs. That state led the nation in job creation last year, and its unemployment rate is only 3.2 percent (compared to the national rate of 7.9 percent). Why? One word: energy. As Nicolas Loris, Heritage’s Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow, writes in a forthcoming paper: … More

Beware! Regulations Incoming!

Rich Tucker

December 18, 2012 at 2:00 pm

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Buckle up, job-creators: The administrative state is set to grow steadily larger in 2013 with a slew of new regulations. “For months, federal agencies and the White House have sidetracked dozens of major regulations that cover everything from power plant pollution to workplace safety to a crackdown on Wall Street,” … More

Morning Bell: Do You Trust the Government with Your Computer?

Amy Payne

November 14, 2012 at 8:42 am

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and President Obama

Do you trust the federal government to keep your personal data safe? What about your business’s records and trade secrets? If you answered “no,” you have good reason—the federal government has had 13 breaches and failures of its own cybersecurity just in the last six months. Yet the President and … More

At 15 Federal Agencies, Death More Common Than Job Loss

Lachlan Markay

July 20, 2011 at 5:49 pm

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How secure are federal workers’ jobs? According to a recent USA Today study, death is the leading cause of job loss in 15 federal agencies. The federal government laid off or fired 0.55 percent of its workforce, according to USA Today – about one sixth of the firing/layoff rate in … More

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Morning Bell: President Obama Is Tired of Fighting Terrorism

“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender…” These were words President Obama never used during his speech at the National Defense University yesterday. Rather, … More

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