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Fact Check: Accountability, Responsibility and up to 4000 Convicts with Stimulus Checks

President Obama wanted transparency, he said. He wanted accountability also. Nearly eight hundred billion dollars being spent...

By John Hanlon | 08-31-2009

Oink, Ouch: Pork in the Health Care Bill

Guess what’s in the health bill Congress has been working on? Aside from terrible policies designed to put our nation on...

By Alexa Shrugged | 07-13-2009

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Barack Obama, Throwing the Game

Is the duty of our government not the welfare of its people? Is the government not obligated to better the lives of its own citizens...

By Chris Schultheis | 07-10-2009

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Bipartisan, Taxpayer-Funded Gorilla Porn

In 1987, artist Andres Serrano took a glass and filled it with urine. That alone isn't very interesting. But when he dropped a plastic crucifix into the glass and photographed it, he won the hearts of the liberal art world. " Piss Christ"...

Published 08-03-2009 9:11 AM by Duane Lester

Filed under: wasteful spending
Obama Thinks 2+2=4

If the ABC/White House infomercial wasn’t enough to make most sane people distrust the Democrats’ health care plans, last night provided America with a glimpse of how out of touch Barack Obama is with the American people. It is becoming more...

Published 07-30-2009 12:05 AM by Michael Lewis

Filed under: wasteful spending, health care
Democrats Running Scared about Health Care

Democrats are running scared about health care. They’ve been hammered on the massive health care reform they’re trying to push, and unfortunately for Obama, Pelosi, and Reid, things have not been going the way they have planned. Even the Congressional...

Published 07-29-2009 10:36 AM by Cassy Fiano

Filed under: liberal hypocrisy, wasteful spending, health care
The Left's Scorched Earth Policies

It's amazing how quickly things can change in 178 days. Barack Obama's poll numbers are not what they once were. When Obama was inaugurated in January, he had the wind of political opinion at his back with an approval rating in the high sixties...

Published 07-17-2009 12:05 AM by Kim Priestap

Filed under: energy, wasteful spending, health care, cap and trade, economic recovery
BARONE: The Price of Leaving the Details to Congress

"Never let a crisis go to waste," Barack Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said last November. The crisis he referred to was economic: the financial collapse and the rapidly deepening recession. The opportunity it presented, for Obama...

Published 07-16-2009 11:41 AM by Michael Barone

Filed under: congress, wasteful spending, GDP, economic recovery
Once, Twice, Three Times a Failure

Ever watch a really good illusionist? They are the masters of misdirection and succeed by getting you looking the direction they need you to look, in order to disguise the trick. The best illusionist can honestly make you believe what they are doing is...

Published 07-13-2009 10:36 AM by Duane Lester

Filed under: unemployment, stimulus, wasteful spending, bailouts
BARONE - Chaos on Capitol Hill: All Politics Is Loco

Disarray. That's one word to describe the status of the Obama administration's legislative program as Congress heads into its final four weeks of work before the August recess. A watered-down cap-and-trade bill passed the House narrowly last month...

Published 07-13-2009 10:29 AM by Michael Barone

Filed under: wasteful spending, health care, cap and trade, economic recovery
A Second Stimulus? No Way. Cancel the First One.

Back in February, President Obama signed his stimulus bill into law. At the time, he declared that the $787 billion boondoggle was absolutely necessary to prevent the U.S. economy from going over the edge and into the abyss and becoming a catastrophe...

Published 07-10-2009 12:05 AM by Kim Priestap

Filed under: unemployment, stimulus, wasteful spending, bailouts
The Only Thing Stimulated In a Government Stimulus

A new GAO review of the $787 billion stimulus package tells us what we should have known all along. When government spends money themselves to stimulate the economy rather than let citizens have their own money to spend, the only part of the economy that...

Published 07-09-2009 11:03 AM by Edward Morrissey

Filed under: stimulus, big government, wasteful spending
Time to Phase Out Farm Subsidies

"Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to it's liberty and interests by the most lasting bands." -- (Thomas...

Published 07-07-2009 12:05 AM by Rick Moran

Filed under: taxes, wasteful spending
Let’s Face It: This Isn't a Shared-Sacrifice Recession

Recent government figures concluded that the economy has lost more than 1.6 million jobs since Congress approved the stimulus bill in February. There is record unemployment in 12 states. Since January, the U.S. unemployment rate rose from 7.6 percent...

Published 06-23-2009 12:05 AM by Jim Hoft

Filed under: congress, unemployment, wasteful spending
The Era Of Gizmo Government

When I served as the managing editor of National Journal's Technology Daily, I spotted an apparent trend in federal spending -- more money going toward tech-related pork projects. A time-intensive search of keywords in several editions of the annual...

Published 06-11-2009 12:05 AM by K. Daniel Glover

Filed under: wasteful spending, earmarks
Rail Plans Railroading Us All

For years, American lawmakers have jealously gazed at Europe’s rail system and pined for the chance to build a similar system. It looks like their day has arrived. Just last month, President Obama unveiled his plans to build a “higher-speed”...

Published 05-22-2009 12:05 AM by T. J. Brown

Filed under: wasteful spending, rail system
How Are Our Education Dollars Wasted?

Money for schools and education is not controlled by one group or branch of the government. There are policies and regulations at work from the federal, state and local level--all of which are responsible for the wasting school funds. This means we need...

Published 05-13-2009 12:05 AM by Kirsten Wright

Filed under: wasteful spending
Putting The Budget Cuts Into Perspective

How much will $17 billion save us? After all of the taxing, borrowing, and spending we've been inundated with in Washington D.C., it feels like a big relief to hear that there will be $17 billion in budget cuts. It sounds like a lot of money, after...

Published 05-11-2009 10:10 AM by Cassy Fiano

Filed under: taxes, stimulus, budget, wasteful spending

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Bipartisan, Taxpayer-Funded Gorilla Porn

Obama Thinks 2+2=4

Democrats Running Scared about Health Care

The Left's Scorched Earth Policies

BARONE: The Price of Leaving the Details to Congress

Once, Twice, Three Times a Failure

BARONE - Chaos on Capitol Hill: All Politics Is Loco

A Second Stimulus? No Way. Cancel the First One.

The Only Thing Stimulated In a Government Stimulus

Time to Phase Out Farm Subsidies

Let’s Face It: This Isn't a Shared-Sacrifice Recession

The Era Of Gizmo Government

Rail Plans Railroading Us All

How Are Our Education Dollars Wasted?

Putting The Budget Cuts Into Perspective