**Written by Doug Powers The “jobs bill by executive order piecemeal” initiative continues : This afternoon, in yet another executive action intended to boost the economy, President Obama signs an executive order that addresses prescription drug shortages. The signing marks yet another move in the president’s “we can’t wait” campaign to grow the economy through unilateral actions while his $447 jobs bill remains stalled in Congress.

**Written by Doug Powers The pessimist sees this as taxpayers being out $43 million, but the optimistic green bureaucrat will compare it to Solyndra and tout it as saving taxpayers $492 million. The latest DoE loan recipient to declare bankruptcy is Beacon Power Corp : A Massachusetts company that received a $43 million Energy Department loan guarantee last year filed for bankruptcy Sunday, a step certain to fuel criticism of federal green energy financing in the wake of the solar company Solyndra’s collapse. Beacon Power Corp., which develops energy storage systems, filed for bankruptcy protection in the U.S.

Obama embraces the horror show by pledging a 10% annual cap on student loan repayments.

As our Cold War nemesis sees the light, Obama’s got government “teleworkers” clocking in from their beds.

ICE union president Chris Crane told the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration that the new ICE policy puts both the public and ICE agents at risk. In order to slash the number of deportations and arrests for traffic offenses or lack of proper identification, law enforcement agencies in a major U.S

How America’s labor unions serve as ground troops for the radical left

SOMETIMES the best stimulus is not the biggest, but the one that’s possible.

Steve Contorno Examiner Staff Writer NORTH CHESTERFIELD, Va. — President Obama appeared before soldiers and firefighters Wednesday as he made an impassioned populist plea for his jobs plan on the final day of a campaign-style bus tour through North Carolina and Virginia. For three days Obama delivered slight variations of the same speech, a battle cry for middle America to do what he has yet to accomplish: convince congressional Republicans to get behind the $447…

President Barack Obama pushed his economic agenda to a military audience on the third day of his trip through North Carolina and Virginia, this time with first lady Michelle Obama at his side.

I am enjoying the first really cool evening since May out on my deck, reading about a supernova that will be visible with my amateur telescope, drinking a fine French bordeaux and listening to the phenomenal Herbie…

President Barack Obama has become quite the drug warrior. Last month, his Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives issued a memo that stated that it is unlawful for anyone with a state-issued medical…

The 2011 budget deficit for the federal government is $1.299 trillion according to numbers just released by the U.S. Treasury. That is the second highest deficit in history.

PITTSBURGH, PA- Minutes stretched on awkwardly after Labor Secretary Hilda Solis spoke to local Democrats. Yet that was less uncomfortable than one man’s attempt to break the silence.

Shubi wrote: Can the left explain why Obama gets so much funding from Wall Street?

U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle, a Clinton appointee, has ruled that the Justice Department does not need to release emails Solicitor General Elena Kagan sent from her DOJ email account to people in the White House—in which she discussed her recusal decisions as solicitor general—because the emails were “used for a purely personal objective.” CNSNews.com and Judicial Watch were seeking public release of the emails through lawsuits filed under the Freedom of Information Act. The “purely personal objective” cited by the judge was Kagan’s goal of being confirmed to the United States Supreme Court

Michael Barone Senior Political Analyst Let’s take our eyes off the Republican presidential race for a minute and ask the question, where if anywhere are we getting adult leadership on major public policy issues this year? The answer, I think, is where the Founding Fathers seem to have least expected it, from the House of Representatives, and specifically from its… washingtonexaminer.com

Obama’s billionaire friend hasinterests in African country’s oil

During the 2011 fiscal year, the U.S. federal government spent $1.3 trillion more than it collected in revenues.

Following a rally in Tennessee this afternoon, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain criticized what he called some “dumb” foreign policy moves that President Obama has made in recent months.

(NewsMax) – President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare reform suffered a major setback Friday as the administration pulled the plug on the assisted-living CLASS insurance program, after effectively admitting it was a boondoggle waiting to happen…