Reuters / By Kevin Drawbaugh and Kim Dixon (Reuters) - The "fiscal cliff" is only days away and efforts to avert it are making little progress, with some U.S. lawmakers predicting the tax increases and federal spending cuts involved will start takin… more »

Refocus Notes: Meet at the center, compromise, go across the aisle...the mainstream media, at least at some venues, is calling Obama's propensity to non-capitulate as a "Line In The sand"--in essence saying he's not going to be flexible on this. A ding… more »

Senate Republicans eye budget tactic to de-fund health care law Chron.com By Stewart M. Powell WASHINGTON - With some powerful Texans in the vanguard, Republican lawmakers return Monday to a deeply divided Capitol Hill and tenacious election-year… more »

Washington Times European politicians are on the hunt for new sources of revenue as the continent’s fiscal situation worsens. The level of desperation is clear in the latest move from German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition government to tap into… more »

Heritage Foundation The Foundry David S. Addington President Obama’s Agriculture Department today announced that it will impose a new 15-cent charge on all fresh Christmas trees—the Christmas Tree Tax—to support a new Federal program to improve t… more »