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Economy
Report: Why public sector unions can easily break the law
Focusing on Michigan, a report released Monday by the Mackinac Center makes the case that there are not adequate laws…
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Politics
Democratic hopeful Martin O’Malley pulls ‘a Hillary’ with his email
Liberal presidential wanna and former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley deleted virtually all of the messages from his primary private email address, leaving…
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Media
What is Hillary afraid of? Campaign bans pool reporter from Monday’s NH events
David Martosko of the Daily Mail was supposed to be the print pool reporter covering the Hillary Clinton campaign today.…
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Law and Government
Former Clinton labor secretary: Hillary has to come clean
During a roundtable discussion on ABC News’s “This Week Sunday,” former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich addressed Hillary Clinton’s waning favorability…
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Law and Government
Sec. of State John Kerry sued to force action on Clinton emails
The watchdog group Judicial Watch announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against Secretary of State John Kerry in the…
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Email Featured
Happy Memorial Day: Obama quietly releases plans for 2,300 regulations just before 3-day weekend
Once again, the most transparent administration in the history of the universe has stealthily released its spring regulatory agenda, which includes…
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Law and Government
Another Hillary lie: She had second secret email address she claimed didn’t exist
At this point in time (as they are fond of saying inside the Beltway), it might be easiest for presidential…
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Economy
Regulation nation: Federal regs cost economy $1.88 trillion in 2014
Federal regulations cost the U.S. economy an estimated $1.88 trillion in 2014, a sum greater than the gross domestic product…
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Economy
In his big speech at Nike Obama asks critics to take his word on TPP
President Barack Obama (aka Air POTUS — see tweet below) gave a speech at Nike headquarters Friday touting the job…
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Law and Government
Obama’s information website: Try it, you won’t like it
A redesigned information website launched by the Obama administration last week looks like a bad April Fool’s joke. Users can…
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Unyielding
What would a nuclear arms race look like in today’s Middle East?
As nuclear talks with Iran hang in the balance, Saudi Arabia has hinted that it may start building a nuclear…
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Economy
Obamacare turns 5: Still polarizing after all these years
Five years after it was first introduced, Obamacare remains a highly partisan issue. President Obama used the five-year anniversary of…
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Law and Government
Record: Obama administration the least transparent since FOIA passed in 1966 (Video)
The Freedom Of Information Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 4, 1966. According to…
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Law and Government
EPA sued for slow-walking release of another Obama cabinet member’s hidden emails
The free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute is suing the Environmental Protection Agency over its extremely slow release of emails related to chief Lisa…
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Education
Obama’s new student loan ‘bill of rights’ won’t do much
President Barack Obama has announced the creation of a new student loan “bill of rights” that he says will position…
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Law and Government
Hillary Clinton to break her silence on Emailgate *UPDATE: Nothing to see here (Video)*
What difference at this point does it make that Hillary Clinton used a private email account, run, moreover, on a “homebrewed” server during…
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Law and Government
Dem lawmakers reject ethics reform measures
Republicans in the New York State Assembly presented 13 rule changes designed to improve transparency, ethics, and the rules of the…
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Unyielding
Once again, Obama learned about scandal in his administration from ‘news report’
Barack Obama has finally weighed in on the latest in a growing procession of “phony scandals” to cast a shadow on his…
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Politics
Video: ‘Stick a fork in Hillary,’ say Dems around the nation
Suddenly Hillary Clinton is the epitome of transparency, tweeting, “I want the public to see my email. I asked State…
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Law and Government
Federal judge blasts EPA: Stop insulting me with your lies
In a Monday ruling, Judge Royce C. Lamberth, senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, accused…
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Politics
Inquiring minds DON’T want to know why FCC hasn’t released the 300-plus pages of gov’t regs on the internet
On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission ruled 3 to 2 that the internet would henceforth be classified as a public…
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Law and Government
Outgoing Congress renews aging law that shields federal contract data from public eye, blocks fines
While government agencies snoop into the private lives of Americans, Congress maintains a stone wall around trillions of dollars in…
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Politics
Where does your Congressman’s money comes from? There’s an app
It’s a plugin actually for Chrome and Safari (Firefox coming soon) that tells you who is contributing cash to your representative in…
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Email Featured
Surprise! Cuba reneging on deal; State Dept. refuses comment (Video)
President Barack Obama’s deal to normalize relations with Cuba is unraveling, and for the usual reasons for this administration —…
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Media
Veteran WH reporter reveals Obama threw tantrum over press’s reporting of scandals
A veteran White House correspondent revealed Monday during a C-SPAN interview that President Barack Obama blasted the press behind closed…
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Law and Government
White House quietly releases plans for 3,415 regulations ahead of Thanksgiving holiday
While Americans are focused on what delicious foods they’re going to eat for Thanksgiving, the White House is focused on…
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Law and Government
EPA boss, Dem money man Steyer meet behind closed doors
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and a deep-pocketed donor to Democrat candidates will convene with climate activists behind closed doors Wednesday…
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Economy
Billions of taxpayer dollars are spent … collecting taxes
If Americans understood how much it costs the IRS to collect taxes, and how much it costs for taxpayers to…
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Law and Government
Meet the man who made Cartagena-hookergate a front-page story
According to the White House, the story appearing in the Washington Post on Wednesday about the prostitution scandal in Colombia involving…
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Economy
Report: School vouchers have saved taxpayers $1.7 billion over two decades
School vouchers, much maligned by the left, created around the United States since 1990 have saved taxpayers over $1.7 billion…
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Media
Reporter covering Michelle Obama stump speech told she was banned from talking to crowd
The most transparent administration in history was at it again Monday, this time in Hudson, Wis., where First Lady Michelle Obama made an…
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Economy
GAO: Investors in low-income community projects double-dipping on tax credits
Approximately 62% of projects benefiting from a federal tax credit also received other forms of federal, state or local assistance…
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Law and Government
The IRS isn’t the only federal agency spending taxpayer millions on unions
It was recently reported in this space that hundreds of employees of the Internal Revenue Service do union business full-time…
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Media
Pelosi’s world: Tells MSM ‘we need you to be messengers’ on midterms
Contrary to promises, the Obama White House has turned out to be one of the least transparent and most secretive administrations in…
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