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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's statement before the House Budget Committee that it was "appropriate" for Congress to consider an economic stimulus package when it returns after the elections is welcome in some respects, but far more dangerous in others. Taken...

It was a pretty big news weekend. And even though guessing what a particular Sunday show guest would be asked was a "no-brainer," it's tempting to score a 2-for3 weekend for the watchdog. Let's start with the big one, shall we? Everyone else is talking about...

David Sirota rightly flags what to expect after Election Day, regardless of the outcome -- an "onslaught" of media Establishment punditry that America is a "center-right nation" which will either help McCain clamp down on Congress or constrain Obama from following...

Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked....

I never thought I'd see the day when conservatives would do a smear job on tax cuts. I had a, shall we say, lively discussion with conservative Town Hall blogger Amanda Carpenter for the weekly The Week In Blog segment over at bloggingheads.tv.. And she offered the...

Peering fearlessly into the increasingly likely terror of a Democratic President with larger Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress, the Wall Street Journal editorial page sums up the stark horrors that could ensue. Voters will be registered. Workers...

On the heels of an explosive political document that has been hitting millions of mailboxes of potential voters— third-quarter 401(k) statements showing how much the Wall Street meltdown has hurt individual retirement savings—another potential game-changer is...

Dean Baker notes that the "giant" tax increase Joe the Plumber fears would prevent him from buying a $280,000 plumbing business would amount to, at most, $900: Mr. Wurzelbacher says that he is planning to buy a plumbing business that has profits of between $250,000...

Nouriel Roubini is one of the few economists who warned about the housing bubble and predicted the financial collapse before it occurred. His alarms — dismissed as extreme by Wall Street nabobs and most economists — turned out to be right. Now he details the scope —...

Our fellow Americans, at long last, are getting it. Not only is the Age of Reagan over; it's becoming increasingly clear that the entire post-WWII order has come to the end of its run. The world as we have known it is passing away; and with it, so does our ability to...