Aug 18, 2011 – NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- President Michele Bachmann has a promise: $2 gas. "Under President Bachmann you will see gasoline come down below $2 a gallon again," Bachmann told a crowd Tuesday in South Carolina. "That will happen." Sure, politicians promise all kinds of things on the...

Aug 18, 2011 – Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama called Thursday for Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to step down -- significantly ratcheting up international pressure against a regime that has been criticized for its harsh crackdown against anti-government protesters in recent months. "The future of Syria must be determined by its...

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Aug 18, 2011 – reform will eventually lead to a lower tax burden on US John Ransom | Create Your Badge See more top stories from Townhall…

Aug 17, 2011 – Last week as reported on Townhall Finance, Hotair, the Blaze and elsewhere, White House spokesman Jay Carney mixed it up with a Wall … John Ransom | Create Your Badge See more top stories from Townhall Finance, new home page, more columns, more news:…

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Aug 17, 2011 – There are two ways to look at this news from John Ransom of Townhall Finance and Steven Ertelt of LifeNews.com regarding workers…

Aug 17, 2011 – DES MOINES, Iowa — Rick Perry, on his first day of extended Iowa campaigning, foreshadowed his coming assault Monday against Mitt Romney and swiped back at the former Massachusetts governor and venture capitalist’s suggestion that others in the GOP race don’t understand the economy. In back-to-back answers, Perry...

Aug 17, 2011 – If the House ran America, what would America look like? It would have no more sweeping health-care law. The House voted to repeal that in January.

Aug 17, 2011 – As Gov. Rick Perry has launched his presidential campaign, he’s turned to a talking point familiar to anyone who has heard him rail against the federal government over the last two years: the perfidy of the roughly $800 billion stimulus plan orchestrated by the Obama administration in 2009....

Aug 17, 2011 – Connecticut Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman won’t endorse President Obama for re-election until he has a chance to compare the president to the Republican Party’s nominee. On Tuesday, Lieberman was asked on the radio program “America’s Morning News” if he would endorse Obama. “I haven’t decided,” he said, “I’m...

Aug 17, 2011 – WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking a jolt for the economy, President Barack Obama will lay out new ideas for speeding up job growth and helping the struggling poor and middle class in a major speech in early September, a senior administration official told The Associated Press. The president's plan...

Aug 16, 2011 – The Obama administration's top two foreign-policy officials waded deeply into domestic politics on Tuesday, calling for tax hikes to help close the budget deficit and warning against making deep cuts to the budgets of the Pentagon and State Department. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Secretary of State Hillary...

Aug 16, 2011 – White House press secretary Jay Carney chastised Texas Gov. Rick Perry for suggesting on the campaign trail that some economic policy decisions the Federal Reserve is considering border on “treasonous.” Speaking at a campaign stop in Iowa on Monday, the Texas governor didn’t name Federal Reserve Board Chairman...

Aug 16, 2011 – Just over a week ago, the creditworthiness of our country was officially called into question, for the first time since the United States’ “full faith and credit” was established in 1790. This could have been avoided.

Aug 16, 2011 – PEOSTA, Iowa — On the second day of his Midwestern economic tour, President Obama spoke less about the particulars of policy and more about what Washington could learn from rural America. “I’ve been traveling through these small towns and talking to folks,” Obama told an audience at Northeast...

Aug 16, 2011 – A senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday described as “inconceivable” a Justice Department decision to promote key Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) personnel who oversaw the controversial “Fast and Furious” weapons investigation that allowed hundreds of guns to be walked into Mexico to new...

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Aug 16, 2011 – As Townhall Finance’s editor John Ransom reports in an upcoming issue of Townhall Magazine in a piece titled President Red Tape: … John Ransom | Create Your Badge See more top stories from Townhall Finance, new home page, more columns, more news: John Ransom…

Aug 15, 2011 – Warren Buffett, one of the wealthiest men in the world, urged the government to raise his taxes, saying he and his “mega-rich friends” have been “coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress." In a New York Times op-ed, the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway wrote Monday that...

Aug 15, 2011 – This piece was co-authored by Peter Nicholas. Reporting from Minneapolis— Burdened by sagging poll numbers, hamstrung by poor economic news, and trapped in Washington for much of the summer because of the debt ceiling fight, President Obama will seek to reverse his recent fortunes by hitting the open road....