With four top Obama Pentagon nominees recently confirmed -- Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn, under secretary of defense for policy Michèle Flournoy, Robert Hale as Pentagon comptroller, and Jeh Johnson as Pentagon general counsel -- there are still three more under secretaries (intelligence, acquisitions/technology/logistics, and personnel and readiness) and a host of assistant secretaries to be officially named...

The debate over the stimulus during the past few months focused on two big issues: (1) the composition of the stimulus, the shares for tax cuts and spending and (2) the size of the stimulus, $700 billion, $800 billion, $900 billion, or more...

From television specials to newspaper editorials, the media are pushing the idea that current economic problems were caused by the market and that only the government can rescue us...

President Obama will shortly sign legislation creating nearly a trillion dollars of deficit spending in the name of stimulating the economy...