Economy
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Budget cuts prevent agency from destroying millions in valuable computer equipment
A federal agency unnecessarily destroyed $170,000 worth of computing hardware, and planned to destroy $3 million more, in response to…
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Two House Dems propose a new national park — on the moon
Remember back in February when Barack Obama warned that America would feel the pain once sequestration kicked in? Among the federal…
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America: From a nation of steelworkers to a nation of Wal-Mart greeters
Despite some spin doctors in Washington, D.C., touting a drop in the number of those the Federal government qualifies as…
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Another Obama record: Unemployment at or above 7.5% for 54 straight months
If you’re into noting presidential records, here’s a new one to add to your list for Barack Obama. Since 1948,…
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Kings George III, Obama: Choking off independent economic life
If only a gorget and a fort made of palmetto logs could stop the choking today as in 1776 Happy…
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Obama warns Africans not to improve their lifestyle because 'the planet will boil over' if they do
You have to feel bad for the people of Africa. After all, we are the sad saps who elected Barack…
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Obama’s legacy on pace to be a mess his successor will inherit
“Obama Turns Focus on Middle-Class Jobs.” So read a results-promising headline at Voice of America on May 18. Yahoo! News was equally optimistic a…
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A graphic look at the federal government's MAF (money unaccounted for)
With a national debt approaching $17 trillion, Uncle Sam is tightening his belt and looking under the cushions for extra…
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Hillary Watch 2016: An Obama minefield awaits Hillary on the 2014 campaign trail
Our last edition of Hillary Watch 2016 posed the question: Will Hillary be forced to run for Bill’s third term rather than…
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Will John Lewis accuse Obama of 'comin' for our children'?
USDA cuts assistance to 600,000 women and children while increasing subsidies for wineries and alcoholic beverage distilleries. Back in 1995…
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Obama family vacation to Africa to cost taxpayers $60-100 million
“You think you hate it now, wait ’til you drive it.” In a time in our nation’s history when the…
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Is inflation coming?
Since the beginning of the Great Recession, government has printed massive amounts of new dollars through a procedure known as…
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IRS employee: Washington, D.C. gave orders to target Tea Party
On Sunday’s edition of CNN’s “State of The Union,” Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., revealed new testimony from IRS employees that…
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Is it time for the media to group the scandals together and call them ‘Obamagate?’
At this moment, no daily news cycle is complete without one hearing or reading the word “Watergate” in connection with…
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IRS scandal: It's hard to fire federal officials despite Constitutional provision
It’s hard to get rid of a career bureaucrat, even at the supervisory level. “After you’ve been here for a…
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Lois Lerner could have avoided current mess by having her attorney read her opening statement
A day has passed since Lois Lerner, director of Exempt Organizations at the IRS, appeared before the House Oversight and Government…
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Even an IRS of Billy Grahams would be tyrannical
It is no surprise that the government agency responsible for taxing the rich and funding the liberal management of our…
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LU Exclusive: Constitutional study group comes forward, claims it was targeted by IRS
Another 501(c)(3) group has confirmed it was targeted by the IRS, but this act of malfeasance should have special significance…
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Dem Senators’ Hail Mary pass in re Benghazi scandal
Now that the mainstream media are writing articles with the words scandals (plural), cover-up, lies, and president in their titles,…
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All the president’s friends: AP is latest defector with whistle-blowing report on IRS
What a difference damning testimony from high-level members of the diplomatic corps makes! Just three days have passed since three…
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The ultra-lethal Special Forces unit few have ever heard of
In the wake of the special congressional hearings on the jihadist terror attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, the…
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Feds drop $10K on pole dance lessons for telephone linemen
Your tax dollars hard at work… Despite the Obama Administration’s blaming Congressional Republicans for seemingly every fiscal dilemma real or…
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The federal gov’t spent $400K developing high-tech tighty whities! (and they're not done)
As we get closer and closer to that magic $17 trillion dollar national debt level (OK it’s not really magic…
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Housing nominee Mel Watt helped spawn mortgage crisis
In the Daily Caller, historian and presidential biographer Charles C. Johnson writes that Mel Watt, President Obama’s nominee for director of the…
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Obama gets lucrative pension from taxpayers, even as he seeks to restrict private retirement plans
In the Washington Post, Allan Sloan notes that while President Obama wants to cap American citizens’ IRAs at $3 million or…
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