2/7/12 Daily Grind: Unemployment extension provides GOP an opportunity

Feb. 7, 2012

Unemployment extension provides GOP an opportunity

If Obama really believes that the economic emergency is over, then it is time to rescind unemployment extensions that have cost taxpayers an additional $275 billion since 2009.

Video: It Sure Has Been A Long Halftime In America

With real unemployment about 11 percent and growth a whole point lower than the government expected in 2011, does America have reason to be hopeful about the near-term economic outlook?

Conservatives are still divided

Time is running out for conservatives to unite to defeat Mitt Romney. 

Daley: The lessons of the fall of communism have still not been learnt

"The events of 1989 are crucial to any understanding of the present world."