USEC Avoids NYSE Delisting—For Now

Shareholders of the United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC) have approved a reverse stock split (artificially raising the share price...

A Cigar for SIGAR – Documenting Hundreds of Millions of Dollars of Waste in Afghanistan

The title says it all: “[Department of Defense] Moving Forward with $771.8 Million Purchase of Aircraft that the Afghans Cannot Operate...

Medicine Bow Liquid Coal Facility on the Rocks

Medicine Bow Fuel and Power LLC—subsidiary of DKRW Advanced Fuels LLC—has filed updated construction and development plans with the state...

Baucus and Hatch Propose Blank Slate Tax Reform

Today, Senate Finance Chairman Baucus (D-MT) and Ranking Member Hatch (R-UT) sent a letter to their colleagues proposing “blank slate”...

Truth Checking Trillion-Dollar Farm Bill Apologists

The rhetoric from defenders of Washington’s heavy-handed role in agriculture reached a peak during recent House debate on a nearly $1...

Rhetoric on Adjusted Gross Income Grossly Distorts the Facts

Many farm bill apologists attacked basic means testing as a “poison pill” for the farm bill. House Agriculture Committee leaders Frank...

Math Like Chairman Lucas’ is the Reason We Have a $17 Trillion Debt

"And if you look at how [crop insurance] has worked in the 7 years prior to the onset of the drought of 2011, basically the Federal...

Golden Fleece Award to Knik Arm Bridge and Toll Authority for a Decade of Waste Cheerleading a Bridge in Alaska

A press release from TCS on the Knik Arm Bridge and Toll Authority being awarded the most recent "Golden Fleece."...

TCS Statement on President’s Climate Speech

Below is a statement by Ryan Alexander, president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, on the President's Speech on Climate Change....

TCS Statement on House Rejection of 2013 Farm Bill

Below is a statement by Ryan Alexander, president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, on the House's rejection of the 2013 farm bill. ...

Syria: Excuse 535 To Not Cut the Deficit

Volume XVIII No. 37 Possible action in Syria has become the most recent excuse du jour for Pentagon boosters...