News Team | March 8, 2011
Rob McKenna, | 3-8-2011 Congressional supporters of the health reform act had plenty of warning that, however good its intentions, the bill was venturing into unprecedented legal ground. The accusations are as insidious as they are inaccurate. An e-mail was circulated earlier this month by a member of Congress accusing me of trying to “wipe [...]
News Team | March 3, 2011
Scott Lanman, Bloomberg | 3-3-2011 Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said a surge in U.S. government “activism,” including fiscal stimulus, housing subsidies and new regulations, is holding back the economic recovery. Increased bond issuance by the Treasury Department crowds out borrowers with the weakest credit ratings…… Read More
PierceGOP | January 26, 2011
By Phil Raschke, Lakewood – Letters to the Editor – The Suburban Times | 1-26-2011 I like Pierce Transit. What I don’t like is their huge operating expenses underwritten by taxpayers. The recent Pierce Transit mailer “Proposition 1 Facts and Info” notes only 17% of their costs are covered by fares. Nearly 80% of their [...]
News Team | January 26, 2011
Calvin Woodward, Associated Press-Finance | 1-25-2011 WASHINGTON (AP) — The ledger did not appear to be adding up Tuesday night when President Barack Obama urged more spending on one hand and a spending freeze on the other. Obama spoke ambitiously of putting money into roads, research, education, efficient cars, high-speed rail and other initiatives in [...]
News Team | January 19, 2011
Foxnews.com | 1-19-2011 WASHINGTON — The newly muscular House Republicans voted Wednesday to overturn President Obama’s health care overhaul — a move that is largely symbolic because the Democratic-controlled Senate is poised to ignore it while Obama is certain to veto it should it somehow pass through Congress. The House passed the bill 245-189 with [...]
News Team | January 18, 2011
Newsmax.com | 1-18-2011 PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — Six more states said Tuesday they would join a lawsuit in Florida against President Obama’s healthcare overhaul, meaning more than half of the country will challenge the law. The announcement was made as House members in Washington, led by Republicans, debated whether to repeal the law. The six [...]
News Team | January 18, 2011
Manuel Valdes, Asoociated Press| 1-18-2011 OLYMPIA – Lawmakers were pressed Monday to quickly act on two bills that Gov. Chris Gregoire’s office says will save hundreds of millions of dollars for businesses and help spur the state’s economy. But labor organizations are opposing…… Read More
News Team | December 14, 2010
Jim Meyers and Ashley Martella, Newsmax.com | 12-14-2010 Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli tells Newsmax that the defeat of Obamacare and its individual mandate is “critical to the preservation of the Constitution and liberty.” Cuccinelli successfully argued the case that led to a federal judge’s ruling on Monday that the individual mandate — requiring Americans [...]
News Team | December 13, 2010
Lee Ross, FoxNews.com | 12-13-2010 Casting an unmistakable and perhaps permanent pockmark on the face of the Obama administration, a federal judge in Virginia ruled Monday that a major component of the new health care reform law is unconstitutional. Judge Henry E. Hudson ruled Monday for the state’s claim that the requirement for people to [...]
News Team | November 17, 2010
Joran Schrader, The Politcal Buzz | 11-17-2010 At least 158 inscrutable ballots will go before the Pierce County Canvassing Board today. With the public invited to look on at projected images of the ballots, the board will pore over confusing marks and try to divine voters’ intent. In most races, today’s outcomes hardly matter. But [...]