Conn Carroll Senior Editorial Writer “When I started the business, I’d very rarely ever get some information from the government that I had to really pay that much attention to,” David Cranston, president of Cranston Material Handling Equipment Corp. of Pittsburgh, says in a new Small Businesses for Sensible Regulations video

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CBS's Erica Hill let DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz bash congressional Republicans unopposed on Thursday's Early Show. Hill also failed to ask the Florida Democrat about her eye-opening claim on Wednesday that ” anyone ” can see that the economy is improving ” and now, we've begun to turn the corner

From RedState.com: For some time now, I and others have been documenting the relentless assault on economic growth by the EPA under President Barack Obama.  I feel like a broken record at times trying to beat this drum and get people to realize that while Obama doesn’t keep all of his campaign promises, destroying the coal industry is one [...]

From Fox Business: On Sept. 8 President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress to present the American Jobs Act. In his speech the president outlined tax breaks for individuals and small businesses, funding for infrastructure projects and an extension of unemployment benefits. But the looming question remains: will these moves actually create jobs? There is no [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: President Obama’s hometown of Chicago is nearly 1,000 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. But like many other communities across the country, it is suffering the consequences of his Administration’s anti-drilling agenda. Illinois accounted for $376.2 million in shallow-water drilling expenditures over the past three years, according to an analysis by 14 [...]

From The Heriage Foundation: Yesterday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar testified before the House Natural Resources Committee on the Department of the Interior’s Fiscal Year 2012 Budget proposal. When pressed by Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) about the de facto offshore drilling moratorium the Obama Administration has inflicted on his district, Sec. Salazar responded: “When you look at [...]

From CNSNews.com: On the same day that House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was chiding House Republicans over job creation, the director of the Congressional Budget Office was testifying in the House Budget Committee that the health-care law President Barack Obama signed last year will kill about 800,000 American jobs over the next decade. CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf [...]

From World Net Daily: The Bureau of Labor Statistics appears to be intentionally understating the current unemployment rate, most likely with an aim to bolstering the Obama administration’s claim that the unemployment rate is improving as jobs are created in a recovering economy, Jerome Corsi’s Red Alert reports. In a news release on Feb. 4, the [...]

From Michelle Malkin: In December, I reported on how small businesses are getting whacked by skyrocketing unemployment insurance tax hikes across the country. Flashback: State unemployment benefits last up to 26 weeks. Bipartisan-supported Washington mandates have raised that to 99 weeks. The current proposal would extend eligibility for this basket of benefits until the end [...]

From Michelle Malkin: President Obama used the word “jobs” 31 times in his State of the Union Address. Did you add “-killing” under your breath every time he read the word on his teleprompter? Me, too. While Obama was out on the trail filming 2012 campaign ads on the taxpayer’s dime, workers in industries demonized [...]

From Michelle Malkin: You already knew that the election-season “lifting” of President Obama’s deepwater drilling moratorium was a sham announcement. Loathsome cowboy Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and radical eco-czar Carol Browner have lied through their teeth from day one about the rationale andimpact of their job-killing policies not only on deepwater drilling, but shallow drilling, tourism, and the [...]

From NewsMax.com: Barack Obama’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year got off to a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad start. There he was, on New Year’s Day, on vacation with his family in Hawaii, stuck on a secure phone with counterterrorism officials, trying to figure out what screw-ups had allowed a would-be terrorist [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: According to The National Bureau of Economic Research, the Great Recession began in December 2007, lasted 18 months, and ended in June 2009. The last recession that lasted this long  began in July 1981, lasted 16 months, and ended in November 1982. No two recessions are the same. And no two recoveries [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: The US president failed in his attempt over the weekend to persuade Republicans and conservatives in his own Democratic Party to accept a compromise on extending tax cuts passed by George W Bush, which are due to expire on Dec 31. Mr Obama wanted to extend the cuts for the middle classes but [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: Repeatedly, reports have shown that Obamacare will increase job loss.  But what happens when those who are laid off are the workers meant to enable the health care law’s expanded access of care: namely, hospital employees? According to one hospital, layoffs of workers have already begun as a result of the new [...]

From Liberty.com: According to Deputy White House Communications Director Jen Psaki, President Obama will be in Rhode Island today “talking about the choice that people must make, broadly on many issues, including small business.”  Indeed, the choice could not be more clear.  While Republicans have called for immediate action in the current Congress on specific [...]

From Liberty.com: It has been seven months since President Obama signed the job-killing government takeover of health care into law, and since that time the devastating consequences of ObamaCare have continued to buffet American families and small businesses.  Earlier this year, Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) issued a report entitled ObamaCare: Three Months of Broken Promises.  [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: According to The National Bureau of Economic Research, the most recent recession began in December 2007, lasted 18 months, and ended in June 2009. The recession which most closely resembles the most recent one began in July 1981, lasted 16 months, and ended in November 1982. No two recessions are exactly the [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: Just two years ago, President George Bush’s Environmental Protection Agency lowered the ozone standard from 84 parts per billion (ppb) to the current 75 ppb. Ozone is a naturally occurring molecule made up of three oxygen atoms that can be unhealthy at high levels. It is often created when vehicle and [...]