Today's News

Just days ago President Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform met for the first time.  At that meeting Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke expressed extreme concern over the effect of out-of-control government spending on the future of our nation’s struggling economy.  Bernanke warned that “even after economic and financial conditions have returned to normal, in the absence of further policy actions, the federal budget appears set to remain on an unsustainable path.”  This same message was previously delivered by Peter Orsza

    Conventional wisdom in the nation’s capital right now is that Democrats are up against it in this fall’s elections and will probably lose a great many House seats and at least a few seats in the Senate.

    Polling shows a very strong feeling against incumbents, but that feeling goes both ways, against Democrats and Republicans, too.

    The party in power in the White House almost always loses Congressional seats in mid-term elections. It is no different this year.

The Jefferson Forest- Liberty matchup held all the promise of  being a humdinger.

  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering a significant move.  This summer, the EPA will give a thumbs up (or down) on  upping the amount of ethanol in our gasoline by 50%.