By BETSY McCAUGHEY June 15, 2011 Rep. Anthony Weiner announced this week that he’s seeking treatment for sexual “addiction” — mortifying in formation that a private person would want to keep to himself. But it soon may be difficult to keep any sensitive medical problem strictly between you and your doctor. The 2009 stimulus and […]
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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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Printed from the News & Observer – www.NewsObserver.com Published Sat, Jun 11, 2011 A look at where legislation stands Find a bill The N.C. General Assembly’s web site allows visitors to search for bills by number or by key words: www.ncleg.net/. Keep up with the latest breaking news from the legislature at our Under the
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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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JUNE 2, 2011 Secretary of Subsidy Obama’s Commerce nominee knows all about corporate welfare. President Obama nominated John Bryson to head the Commerce Department on Tuesday, praising the Californian as “a business leader who understands what it takes to innovate, create jobs and to persevere through tough times.” That’s one way of describing someone with
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MAY 26, 2011 Democrats have said they only intend to restore the tax rates that existed during the Clinton years. In reality they’re proposing rates like those under President Carter. By STEPHEN MOORE Media reports in recent weeks say that Senate Democrats are considering a 3% surtax on income over $1 million to raise federal
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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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dailycaller.com May 24, 2011 Sen. Orrin Hatch, Utah Republican and ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee, and Rep. Dave Camp, Michigan Republican and House Ways and Means Committee chair, called on the Obama administration to be more transparent than they’ve been in their handling of the Obamacare waivers process. In a Tuesday letter to
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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 14, 2011 Education spending and student-teacher ratio are about where they were in 2004. The real problem is that tax dollars are being diverted for teacher benefits. By ALLYSIA FINLEY Fullerton, Calif. Thousands of California teachers turned out this week to protest potential budget cuts to education and to urge lawmakers to raise taxes.
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