It wouldn't be the holidays if we didn't have grinches. In the spirit of the season, this week we saw calls to lower the federal minimum wage (yes, you read that correctly), thinly disguised as a way to help the economy. In this time of recession and high unemployment, however,...

While all America wonders what will happen now that the House has voted down the bailout package, one thing is absolutely clear: Unless Congress and the President act to expand emergency unemployment benefits within the next few days, hundreds of thousands of jobless workers will start running out of benefits...