Read the bill: Obamacare socks middle class with $3.9 billion tax increase (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Obama’s Secret Power Grabs (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Doctor shortage? 28 states may expand nurses’ role (Hat Tip: Nancy Jacques)

Fire and Fraud in Spokane

Chinese Turbines in Texas Spur ‘Buy American’ Push (Update1) (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Regime Drops Cancer Victim’s Medicaid, Sentences Her to Death (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Debt panel’s bind: Cut funds or hike taxes

Hopes dim for bipartisan banking bill

White House: Stimulus showered billions on taxpayers

Tea-party mania: Taxpayers to storm White House (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Obama’s involvement in Chicago Climate Exchange—the rest of the story (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Uncle Sam Goes to Debtors’ Prison

Morning Bell: Wall Street Bailouts Forever

Side Effects: Obamacare’s “Donut Hole” for Young Adults

Global Warming, Melting Glaciers and Prohibition

More tyranny + more taxes = More American tea parties

Speech (Spanking on Raising Taxes) Given From the Floor! MUST READ! (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Mortgage Banker Mobbed by Furious Borrowers

Morgan Stanley Fund May Lose $5.4 Billion: Report

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS ACCOUNTING PROF.: Released to Near Silence, the U.S. Treasury 2009 Financial Report Shows Dire Course. (Hat Tip: Kim Priestap)

GOP: Dems Have Increased Taxes by $670 Billion and Counting

Banks to Supreme Court: Fed Should Keep Emergency Lending Secret

Beef price surges following harsh winter

How Many Earmarks Have You Bought?

Who Is the ‘Pork King’ of Congress?

How Did YOUR Senator Vote on Earmark Ban?

It’s All Your Money: Debt Commission

Bernanke Confident in Economic Recovery

Watchdog: Obama Foreclosure Aid Leaves Many Out

Retail Sales Up for Third Straight Month in March

SurvivalBlog:

Implications of the U.S. National Debt — The Upright Spike

What Makes a Home Valuable?

CBO chief says debt ‘unsustainable’.

Gold hits record high for British investors; The price of gold has risen to an all-time high in sterling and euro terms.

Meredith Whitney: Housing Will Fall Again

Is the World’s Second Biggest Economy On the Ropes?

Stocks Trade Mixed After Alcoa Results Fall Short

February Trade Deficit Increases to $39.7 Billion

Oil Price Slide Continues for Fifth Straight Day

Pensions: The Untold Crime of the Century

The Power of Gold

With 1 in 5 Americans Out Of Work, Obama Issues One Million Green Cards

A Mortgage Crisis Picturebook Even a Progressive Could Understand

Did The Fed Just (Surreptitiously) Bail Out Europe?

Cap and Trade: A License Required for Your Home.