JUNE 15, 2011 At a time of crisis a wasteful federal agency gets $200 million more. By JIM DEMINT Long before there was President Obama’s stimulus, there was the Economic Development Administration. The EDA was created in 1965 with the same high-minded intent used to usher in the $814 billion stimulus bill in 2009. Set
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Published on Washington Examiner (http://washingtonexaminer.com) By Timothy P. Carney Jun 14 2011 – If your goal were to foster more political cronyism, reward lobbyists, entrench incumbents, enrich the politically connected, and get the revolving door spinning faster, you would have a hard time crafting a more useful piece of legislation than the Dodd-Frank financial regulation
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FOX NATION.COM AP By Tom Fitton, Big Government Judicial Watch uncovered hundreds of documents from the City of Dayton, Ohio, showing that Department of Justice (DOJ) officials pressured the Dayton Police and Fire Departments to lower testing standards because not enough African-American candidates passed the written exam. On May 25, Judicial Watch also filed a
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Civil Rights and the Mob: George Wallace, Bull Connor, Orval Faubus And Other Democrats by Ann Coulter June 7, 2011 An excerpt from Ann Coulter’s new book, Demonic: How The Liberal Mob Is Endangering America. CHAPTER 10: CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE MOB: GEORGE WALLACE, BULL CONNOR, ORVAL FAUBUS AND OTHER DEMOCRATS It was the Democratic
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JUNE 6, 2011 The government’s unnecessary disruption of the bankruptcy laws will do long-term damage to the economy. By DAVID SKEEL President Obama’s visit to a Chrysler plant in Toledo, Ohio, on Friday was the culmination of a campaign to portray the auto bailouts as a brilliant success with no unpleasant side effects. “The industry
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Thursday, May 26, 2011 By Neal Boortz You can’t spend like Europe and expect American results. Americans shouldn’t strive to be like Europe … especially when it comes to spending on social programs. Though this is exactly what Democrats are striving to achieve. In discussions about our entitlement crisis, it has become increasingly apparent that
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MAY 25, 2011 The consumer financial czar doth protest too much. No one in Washington does moral indignation better than Elizabeth Warren, the de facto head of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. And yesterday she was in high dudgeon on Capitol Hill attempting to repel efforts to hold her new bureaucracy more accountable. We
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MAY 20, 2011 Obama throws up a new union barrier to Korea, Colombia and Panama. “Last month, we finalized a trade agreement with South Korea that will support at least 70,000 American jobs. This agreement has unprecedented support from business and labor, Democrats and Republicans, and I ask this Congress to pass it as soon
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MAY 20, 2011 As Socialists Risk Losing Key Areas, Economists Fear ‘Hidden’ Bills By JONATHAN HOUSE And SARA SCHAEFER MUñOZ ReutersDemonstrators fill up Madrid’s famous Puerta del Sol in a protest against authorities’ handling of the economic crisis on Thursday. MADRID—Weekend elections that threaten to drive Spain’s ruling Socialist party from power in several regions
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PAJAMASMEDIA.COM November 11, 2010 – 1:30 pm – by Zombie (In the first half of this essay, Gerrymandering 101, I explained how gerrymandering works and why it’s so ubiquitous. Here in the exciting conclusion I name and shame the ten most gerrymandered districts of the current 111th Congress — plus 20 bizarre bonus districts not
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