Economy
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Don't waste billions in tax dollars on armed guards for America's schools
School violence has gone down in recent years, but in response to a few mass shootings, the Obama Administration and…
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Obama's massive, wasteful proposed budget is bad news for savers, taxpayers, and educational efficiency
President Obama’s budget was released on Wednesday, two months late. It’s a record $3.78 trillion, and contains lots of wasteful…
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Margaret Thatcher and the immorality of labor union strikes
Quitting your job is fine. Just get out of freedom’s way when you do. Every time this former labor union…
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Sequester alert: WH preps for 10th taxpayer-funded command performance
The “impacts of sequestration are real,” the heavily left-leaning Center for American Progress reports. Yet, in some quarters, the impacts…
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Krugman misleads on Hoover and the Great Depression
Paul Krugman’s recent column misleads its readers on Great Depression history. He writes: When the Great Depression struck, many influential people…
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UK’s online ‘class survey’ will tell if you’re nobility or a bum
In the U.S., class is a dirty word, used mostly in pejorative settings (think class warfare). In the UK, it’s a badge…
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As March report sees dismal 88K new jobs added, Obama is off campaigning
Optimists (read: the administration) will look at the March jobs report released this morning and observe that the unemployment rate…
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Welfare reform dies, as Social Security Disability program explodes
Welfare reform is largely dead. Many people who used to be on welfare have since gone onto Social Security Disability.…
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$700 million in Katrina relief money misused by recipients
This is why the nation can’t have nice things. A new report released by the Department of Housing and Urban Development reveals…
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Obama to teach American youth 'how to budget responsibly'
Don’t let the date fool you… In spite of the fact the national debt is currently at $53,106 per citizen…
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Taxpayers spring for Biden's third vacation in past three months
In the wake of Biden’s half million dollar one nighter in Gay Paree… Despite dire warnings from the Obama Administration…
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Feds spending $880,000 to study SNAIL SEX!?!? Your tax dollars at work
Have you ever laid in your bed at night, stared at the ceiling, and said to yourself, “Gee, I wonder…
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Cyprus: When law and order prescribe theft
Who will shoulder the pain from the Cyprus bailout deal? The first-order sufferers will be small businessmen (mostly Russian) and…
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No Cypriot (or second American?) tea party despite criminal government theft
Despite how far down the nanny state/socialist road the U.S. has traveled since the 1930s, is there any doubt that if President…
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Biden has been flying home to Delaware on weekends on taxpayer’s dime
What lasts 45 minutes, has a ridiculous weave, and costs taxpayers an uncool $13,200? It’s Vice President Joe Biden flying…
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Your tax dollars at work: $384,949 to study duck 'ding-dongs'
Did you know that some duck penises are corkscrew-shaped? Do you think anybody cares except for maybe another duck? Well…
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Despite sequester Obama designates 5 new national monuments
“There is a sucker born every minute.” That quote is attributed to showman P.T. Barnum. Another putative Barnum quote is “The show…
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CNN's Martin counsels GOP contentment with state power
CNN’s Roland Martin deems the post-Campaign 2012 Republican Party “autopsy” premature based upon election results at the state level and…
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Scholarships cut for children of Iraq, Afghanistan war casualties
President Obama may have been “politicizing” the effects of sequestration when he announced with his fingers crossed behind his back…
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Bill Maher: Bloomberg soda ban sort of thing that ‘makes liberals look bad’
A riddle: Which conservative said, “I am for overturning this ban,” referring to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s idiotic proscription…
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How Obama’s possible third term was thwarted by the 1948 Republican ‘Do Nothing’ Congress
In my self-appointed role as “undercover reporter,” at least three times a week I receive emails from Organizing for Action (OFA). This…
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Over 300,000 fed employees owe $3.5 billion in back taxes, says IRS
Did you know that you were in arrears to the federal government for $3.5 billion? Actually, you aren’t, but your…
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To force Obama’s hand on Keystone, NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman urges lawlessness
Incivility. It is a word that tripped off the lips and pens of liberal commentators great and small after the…
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MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski explodes over judge stopping sugary drink ban, claims soft drink makers poisoning children
Naturally, in the view of left wing statists, government must take on the role of “nanny,” since, in their view,…
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Chris Matthews asks when Obama’s ‘going to credit for amazing economy’
In case you missed it, the February jobs report on Friday contained some encouraging news. National Journal’s Michael Hirsh wrote…
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Jay Carney guardedly optimistic about WH Easter egg roll
From all indications, President Obama’s conciliatory dinner with “the enemy” on Wednesday was the PR triumph administration planners intended. Naturally,…
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Citing sequester, Obama ends public White House tours; GOP Rep. calls for defunding golf trips
On Tuesday, the White House announced that it was canceling all public tours of the presidential residence at 1600 Pennsylvania…
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