AUGUST 20, 2010 More Countrywide Loans What Senate ethicists didn’t tell us. Turns out the Senate ethics committee’s 2009 whitewash of Senator Chris Dodd’s sweetheart mortgages from Countrywide Financial was even worse than we thought. Three times worse. The committee was asked to examine Mr. Dodd’s 2003 receipt of two “Friends of Angelo” loans, named […]
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AUGUST 15, 2010 The Next Pension Bailout New momentum to dump union retirement burdens on taxpayers. Congress is gone for August—heaven be praised—but that hasn’t stopped unions from quietly mobilizing to push through a big new priority this fall: a pension bailout. Big Labor is going Code Red on the issue, in the face of
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Holder puts felons over soldiers The Justice Department obstructs military voting rights By THE WASHINGTON TIMES July 28, 2010 U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during a news conference announcing the indictment of six more New Orleans Police officers in the Danziger Bridge shooting and cover-up in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Tuesday, July 13,
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Mona Charen July 23, 2010 The Washington Post Finds Waste — In Government! It’s not at all clear that the Post understands the larger lesson. EXCERPTS FROM THIS ARTICLE: Nor do federal departments and agencies even know where all of the money goes. In “National Suicide,” Gross recounts, “In one recent
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AUGUST 9, 2010 Will Iraq Fall Victim to the Oil Curse? The Baghdad government runs a top-down command economy and only pays lip service to private jobs and economic diversification. By JUDITH MILLER Baghdad Since America toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraq has had three free-wheeling, relatively fraud-free national elections. Its military has been reconstituted,
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No Shady Banking Buddy Left Behind by Michelle Malkin 08/06/2010 First Lady Michelle Obama’s latest overseas jaunt is getting all the headlines. But President Obama’s money-grubbing junket to Chicago may cost taxpayers far more in the long run. With his Gaultier-clad wife sashaying around the Spanish seaside, the lonely fundraiser-in-chief returned to Illinois to take
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Richard Bernstein – FoxNews.com – August 06, 2010 Five Myths About the GOP That Just Won’t Die Five lies told by Democrats that have increased the dissatisfaction with the Republican Party. Many Americans today are unhappy with the Democratic Party. Yet according to a Gallup poll conducted in July 2010, Democrats were still ahead of
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AMERICAN THINKER July 22, 2010 Race Played Role in Obama Car Dealer Closures By William Tate The Obama administration, already under fire for unprecedented allegations of racial bias, faces a new bias claim from a most unlikely source: one of the administration’s own inspectors general. Decisions on which car dealerships to close as part of
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WALL STREET JOURNAL AUGUST 5, 2010 The Great Guy Theory of History Charlie Rangel forgot that America’s voters want more than a great guy. By DANIEL HENNINGER We consider today the sad case of Charlie Rangel, the beloved 20-term Congressman from New York City. You’ve probably heard of the Great Man Theory of History. The
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WASHINGTON EXAMINER Shirley Sherrod’s Disappearing Act: Not So Fast By: Tom Blumer Special to The Examiner 07/20/10 1:52 PM EDT My oh my, that happened quickly. Perhaps too quickly. Until yesterday, Shirley Sherrod was Georgia Director of Rural Development for the USDA. Earlier in the day at Big Government, Andrew Breitbart put up a video that
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