“National debt” on The Daily Caller

Time magazine begged me to participate in yesterday’s “What’s a Conservative?” symposium with Ann Coulter, Ken Blackwell, Grover Norquist, etc. But I said, “No! No, Time magazine! I’ll do this at The Daily Caller.” So here I am to respond. Time posed three questions: “What does a conservative believe?” “Is there a crisis in the conservative movement?” and “What’re the three most important action items for the next president?” I’ll leave the first two to conservatives (I’m a Manhattan moderate). But here are three things that the next president should do if he wants to make a real difference: (more)

In his Friday Washington Post column, Charles Krauthammer criticized the president for waging class warfare on the so-called “1 percent” and likened the brand of populism he offered in a speech last week to Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez, and not Teddy Roosevelt, which the backdrop of the Kansas speech suggested was who he was attempting to mimic. (more)

In 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama dismissed President George W. Bush as “unpatriotic” for boosting the national debt by roughly $4 trillion. (more)

As children across America costume themselves as ghouls, ghosts, goblins and former North African dictators Monday night, they may have missed the most spine-chilling scare of the day. According to calculations based on the International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook, on All Hallows’ Eve the United States’ total debt will surpass its Gross Domestic Product for the first time since World War II. (more)

Forget the Super Committee, just sell Alaska. That’s GOP Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich’s tongue-in-check solution to America’s debt dilemma. (more)

If this were medieval times, we might be able to lock the so-called Super Congress high up in a tower, safe from the hordes of lobbyists massing in the nation’s capitol. (more)

This appeared in USA Today on August 17, 2011. (more)

Who knew skyrocketing national debt could be super-fabulous? (more)

Standard & Poor’s would cut the U.S. credit rating to its lowest level and Moody’s Investors Service said it will probably reduce its ranking if the government fails to increase the debt limit, leading to a default. (more)

A new federal program to attract foreign investment in the U.S. has suffered from the Treasury Department’s massive bond sales and from what continues to be a challenging regulatory environment for business, but that hasn’t fazed the Obama administration. (more)

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels may have decided against a run for president, but his supporters are determined to make sure that his message continues to play a role in the race. (more)

Polls show that Americans are extremely concerned about the national debt — and as usual, when public sentiment becomes inflamed, politicians leap into action or at least try to give the appearance of doing so. Hence, we are now seeing the introduction of deficit reduction plans from all corners of the political spectrum. (more)

With the ink on the budget deal barely dry, Congress now faces an even more daunting challenge — a vote to raise the debt ceiling. As the U.S. Treasury announced this week, the nation has officially maxed out its credit card. Congress must use this opportunity to put new constraints on runaway federal spending while implementing significant and immediate spending cuts. (more)

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio wants federal dollars rejected by states to go towards paying down the national debt and not end up being spent somewhere else. (more)

Democrats and progressives should be as invested in the fight to bring down the federal debt as Republicans and conservatives, President Barack Obama told supporters Monday night at a fundraiser. (more)

When a videographer asked Virginia Democratic Senate candidate and former Democratic National Committee chairman Tim Kaine how much the United States’ national debt is, he replied: “It’s sizeable.” (more)

A stunt that went largely unnoticed by the national media might give Americans concerned about the debt more confidence in the country’s future. (more)

Yesterday Standard & Poor’s, one of the nation’s largest credit ratings agencies, sent shock waves through the financial world and sounded a warning about the debt and deficit spending that every American needs to hear. As CNBC reported, S&P announced it is downgrading the credit rating outlook for the United States of America to “negative,” saying: (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is minimizing the significance of a credit rating agency’s decision to downgrade its outlook on U.S. government debt. (more)

Call it a debt hawk’s dream, but Rep. Tom Reed introduced a resolution last week to install a ticking clock to blare the national debt directly onto the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. (more)