Revised and Updated on January 12, 2012 Download a PDF version with hyperlinks to House and Senate Appropriations Committee documents: Appropriations Tracker: FY 2012 Designed to inform American policymakers and citizens, the… Read more
Executive Summary Today, the Census Bureau released its annual poverty report, which declared that a record 46.2 million persons, or roughly one in seven Americans, were poor in 2010. The numbers were up sharply from the previous year’s total of… Read more
Last week, The Heritage Foundation reported on a 15-cent fee the Obama Administration's Department of Agriculture...… Read more
Yesterday, after word got out (via a post here on the Foundry) regarding new “mandatory fees” on Christmas trees imposed...… Read more
Christmas is more than a month away, but the Obama Administration just couldn't wait to hang a shiny new ornament on...… Read more
President Obama's Agriculture Department today announced that it will impose a new 15-cent charge on all fresh...… Read more
First they came for the donuts, and few dared to defend partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. Then they came for the...… Read more
As Congress and the White House continue to quarrel over the debt ceiling, the folks at the U.S. Department of...… Read more
There is nothing wrong with fighting childhood obesity but fighting it at the federal level with ineffective methods...… Read more
Congress is back, but before Members head home again to campaign, they have to first do what they do best: spend other...… Read more
It’s rather ironic that the activists who routinely lament government’s failure to protect public health are among the...… Read more
UPDATE: The NAACP has released a full video of Sherrod's speech. It shows that the incident Sherrod was describing...… Read more