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Opinion: You Might Be Committing a Federal Crime

(Dec. 17) -- Here's one proposition not up for partisan debate: America is woefully overcriminalized, and the criminal law is woefully overfederalized. Today there are nearly 4,500 federal criminal laws on the books, and most of them have been added in just the last few decades. A groundbreaking, nonpartisan study...

Should Congress Pass the Dream Act? Opinions Vary

(Dec. 8) -- Does Congress love a dream? The Dream Act, legislation designed to give children of undocumented workers who came to the United States under the age 16 a path to citizenship in exchange for a promise to attend college or join the military, will be debated in Congress today. Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff...

Number of Federal Workers Earning Over $150,000 Doubles Under Obama

(Nov. 12) -- Working for the federal government is a good gig, if you can get it. The number of federal employees raking in over $150,000 a year has multiplied tenfold in the past half decade and doubled since Barack Obama became president, according to a USA Today analysis. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, who will oversee...

Opinion: 4 Good, and 4 Bad, Debt Panel Ideas

((Nov. 11) -- Say this much for Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson: They understand that Washington's fiscal policy is putting us on a path to economic disaster. The co-chairmen of the president's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform know that, unless we want to follow the likes of Greece or France, we need...

Census Finds Record Gap Between Rich and Poor

WASHINGTON (Sept. 28) -- The income gap between the richest and poorest Americans grew last year to its widest amount on record as young adults and children in particular struggled to stay afloat in the recession. The top-earning 20 percent of Americans - those making more than $100,000 each year - received 49.4 percent...

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