Taking the Magnifying Glass to Obama’s Budget

    President Obama’s $3.77 trillion budget proposal for 2014 calls for long-term changes to Social Security and Medicare in hopes of reducing the deficit by $1.8 trillion over the next decade.   The budget’s blueprint, which has already drawn criticism from both the right and left, offers changes ...

Federal Folly: Federal Reserve Gaffs and Releases Minutes Early

    The Federal Reserve typically releases minutes from its 2pm meetings; however, it was forced to put the minutes out five hours early on Wednesday after learning that some people inadvertently received the minutes on Tuesday.    The Federal Reserve accidently emailed the minutes from its March meeting ...

Enjoy your Stay: Thousands Await Putin’s visit to Amsterdam to Protest the President’s Position on Gay Rights

    Over 3,000 people gathered in Amsterdam to protest Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit on Monday. The throng of gay rights activists and supporters flew rainbow flags at half-mast around the city that prides itself on expression and enjoying every kind of freedom.    The cheerfully dressed ...

Mark another One Down: Republican Senator Mark Kirk Announces Support for Gay Marriage

  Mark another One Down: Republican Senator Mark Kirk Announces Support for Gay Marriage   Republican Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois announced today that he supports gay marriage. The announcement makes Kirk the second sitting Republican senator to affirm support for same-sex marriage.    Senator Kirk ...

The Dominoes Keep Falling: Senator Bob Casey Supports Gay Marriage

    Democratic Senator Bob Casey announced his support for gay marriage today. The announcement marks Casey as one of the last Democrats to embrace marriage equality over the past few weeks.    “After much deliberation, thought and after reviewing the civil rights, legal issues and public policy ...

Change is coming: EPA Plans Rules on Clean Gas

    The Obama administration is moving ahead with a plan to require cleaner gasoline as a means to reduce smog and traces of sulfur in gasoline.    The rules are set to take effect in 2017, and their impact would not be realized until a decade later, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. A ...

And the Wait Begins: Arguments end in Second Same-Sex Marriage Case

  A majority of Supreme Court justices posed questions in oral arguments today regarding the Federal Defense of Marriage Act, indicating the court may strike down a key part of the legislation that denies legally married gay couples the same benefits provided to straight couples.    The court is expected to offer ...

Deeply Divided: Supreme Court Hears Both Sides on Landmark Same-Sex Marriage Case

  As supporters and protestors alike fervently debated the issue of same-sex marriage outside the United States Supreme Court building, justices inside were hesitant to extend a sweeping constitutional right for lesbians and gays to wed in all 50 states.  IN the first of two days of hearings on the landmark cases, Justice ...

China’s Government Looking to Fight Inequality

  Last month, a report issued by the China National Bureau of Statistics revealed that inequality in the nation is slowly narrowing. Although good news, public outrage concerning unearned privilege is still growing as China’s online public is growing furious over the parade of corrupt public officials partaking in the illegal ...

Hillary Clinton Announces Her Support of Same Sex Marriage

  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in a video released today, announced that she supports gay marriage, claiming gays and lesbians are “Equal and full citizens who deserve the rights of citizenship.”   “This includes the right to marry,” Clinton said in an online video that was released ...

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