At The New York Times‘s DealBook, Ben Protess writes U.S. Regulators Face Budget Pinch as Mandates Widen: Government regulators on the Wall Street beat have long been outnumbered and outspent by the companies they are supposed to police. But even after receiving budget increases from Congress last month, regulators are still falling behind. The Securities [...]

A new Public Policy Poll shows Claire Mama Caskill beats all three of her Republican challengers if the US Senate Race was held today. Todd Akin, the undeclared candidate stands the best chance of being Claire McCaskill. He trails her by a point, 46-45. Sarah Steelman, who has been in the race the longest still [...]

What a week it has been for commodity traders! Silver, in particular, continued to move at the fastest pace in 30 years. In the process, it has been getting a lot of attention. For example, on Wednesday, silver was the theme of the day on CNBC , with crowds of experts of varied pedigree trying [...]

Without even announcing he is running for Senate, the Democratic Senatorial Committee have begun to attack Todd Akin. This must mean Democrats look at Akin as the front runner in the Missouri Senate race. Their attacks are quite funny. I will tell you why. “Todd Akin is laying cozily in the pocket of Big Oil [...]

WASHINGTON (May 5, 2011) – An unprecedented Veterans Affairs (VA) research program that promises to advance the sophisticated science of genomics goes national today. “It is my honor,” said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki, “to join with so many fellow Veterans in keeping VA at the leading edge of genomics research.  This innovative [...]

Lars Hedegaard, a colleague and respected author, writer has been convicted of sharia  blasphemy laws under the guise of "hate speech" laws in Denmark. This is the imposition of Islamic supremacism in secular societies made possible by leftist apologists and enablers in the West. This is a death blow to Denmark. Geert Wilders is standing [...]

WASHINGTON  – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Department of the Army are working together to provide cutting-edge simulation-based training for medical staff to enhance the quality of patient care at VA medical facilities across the Nation. “This agreement between the VA and the U.S. Army strengthens an important relationship that helps VA deliver better [...]

According to yesterday’s weekly federal report, This Week in Petroleum, the average price of regular gasoline is up to $3.96 per gallon, just 15 cents shy of its July 2008 peak. A friend writes: So I’m deciding to ask an economist. It appears to me that the oil companies are really just gouging the American [...]

Mark Thompson: The Slippery Slope of Justifying Torture: Conor Friedersdorf explains well how the argument that justifying torture under even limited circumstances would morally corrupt and result in justifying torture under almost any conceivable circumstance has been proven correct in the debate over torture’s role in the death of Osama Bin Laden. Conor writes: The return [...]

Ryan Avent on Paul Ryan: Economic policy: Paul Ryan’s roadmap to recession: I was struck hearing all this, explained in this way. Adopting these policies would be nothing short of disastrous. The spending cuts Republicans seek for this year and next would not doom the American economy to disaster, but they would place a meaningful [...]