'Fiscal Cliff' bill signed into law via autopen

HONOLULU (TheBlaze/AP) -- President Barack Obama has signed a bill that boosts taxes on the wealthiest Americans and provides about $76 billion in special interest tax credits, while preserving Bush-era tax cuts for most

HONOLULU (TheBlaze/AP) -- President Barack Obama has signed a bill that boosts taxes on the wealthiest Americans and provides about $76 billion in special interest tax credits, while preserving Bush-era tax cuts for most

By letting the House take up the Senate's fiscal cliff-dodging legislation that raises income tax rates on the wealthiest earners, Speaker John Boehner answered affirmatively a question that had been on many minds: Would he allow an up-or-down floor

Watching Congress wrangle over the fiscal mess they created was like watching two hapless teens try to have it off with each other in the back seat of a van on prom night: lots of flopping bodies and friction that leads to a

One of the truths revealed by the debate over the fiscal cliff is that lawmakers in Washington are in bitter disagreement over the cause of and solution to our economic malaise. There is the Keynesian camp, which believes that the economy is being