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Budget Battles

  • Will the GOP Survive the Party’s Split on Taxes?

    By Thomas Ferraro and Richard Cowan, Reuters

    The main thing that has held Republicans together philosophically is the belief in holding down taxes. Not one of them in Congress has voted for a significant increase in more than two decades. Now...

  • How Democrats Became Liberal Republicans

    By Bruce Bartlett, The Fiscal Times

    Many on the left are puzzled by Barack Obama’s apparent willingness to support dramatic reductions in federal social spending . It is only because Republicans demand even more radical cuts in...

  • Medicare May Be Silent Killer in Budget Battles

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    For all the hype about taxes, Medicare looks more and more like major the obstacle to putting the federal budget on a stable course.

  • Panetta Says Fiscal Cliff Threatens Defense Strategy

    By Karen Parrish, American Forces Press Service

    The year-old defense strategy Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta helped put in place last January faces two major risks, he said today: stress on the force, and a political system "that is depriving...

  • The Real Cost of Obama’s Moribund Immigration Policy

    By Liz Peek

    As he heads into 2013, and a brand new term, President Obama is clearly feeling his oats. Pumped up by his reelection, the president has adopted a “my way or the highway” approach – and not just on...