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Watchdog group upset with nuke reactor funding

March 07, 2013 | The Cranberry Eagle | Energy

A budget watchdog group is criticizing a federal government program that provides federal funds to companies such as Westinghouse Electric... Read More

Conservatives call for big cut in U.S. crop insurance subsidy

March 07, 2013 | Reuters | Agriculture

WASHINGTON, March 5 (Reuters) - A coalition of fiscal conservatives on Tuesday called for a steep cut in federal subsidies for crop... Read More

Energy Department investment in SMRs wins Golden Fleece

March 07, 2013 | Capital Insider | Budget & Tax , Energy

One year ago, the Obama administration committed nearly half-a-billion dollars to develop small modular reactors (or SMRs). The goal:... Read More

Feds Continue to Hire Despite Sequestration

March 07, 2013 | CBN News | Budget & Tax

The sequester cuts may be in place, but many federal agencies appear to still be hiring. At a time when furloughs are on the table, by... Read More

Left and Right Unite in Call for Congress to Cut Defense Spending

March 06, 2013 | ALLGOV | Budget & Tax , National Security

One positive thing that the sequestration mess has done is bring liberal and conservative groups together in calling for serious reductions... Read More

Repealing oil industry tax subsidies would be good for taxpayers

March 06, 2013 | The Hill | Budget & Tax , Energy

Former Gov. Haley Barbour (R-Miss.) served up the usual field-tested oil industry talking points last week. The Hill readers may have been... Read More

Feds keep hiring with sequesters in place: 400 jobs posted on first day back

March 05, 2013 | The Washington Times | Budget & Tax

The sequester cuts are now officially in place, but many government agencies appear to be hiring freely anyway. The U.S. Forest Service on... Read More

Defense Cuts May Not be as Bad as the Pentagon Would Have us Believe

March 04, 2013 | PJ Media | Budget & Tax , National Security

Soldiers are not above politics and the dire warnings we’ve been hearing for months about sequester “gutting” the military may have been... Read More

Portman regrets his panel’s role in sequester

March 04, 2013 | The Columbus Dispatch | Budget & Tax

WASHINGTON — When the first batch of what will be $1.2 trillion in federal spending cuts over the next decade began Friday, some minimized... Read More

Defense cut damage viewed as overblown

March 04, 2013 | The Boston Globe | Budget & Tax , National Security

WASHINGTON — The warnings only grew more dire as the deadline approached. Automatic cuts to national defense, Pentagon leaders insisted,... Read More

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September 13, 2013

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... Read More