Hey Barry, This is why you don’t just hand out other people’s money. … WASHINGTON — Recovery.gov promised transparency on how the government spends every dollar of stimulus money, but there’s $162 million the website doesn’t disclose. Recipients of 352 federal stimulus contracts, grants and loans have failed to report how they spent the...
Monthly Archives: October 2010
Molly Norris Goes Ghost – National Review Online
… In response to threats from militant Islamists, such custodians of Western culture as Comedy Central, Yale University Press, and the Deutsche Oper have resorted to self-censorship. Norris, a cartoonist for the Seattle Weekly, was troubled by what she saw — correctly, I think — as the slow-motion surrender of freedom of expression, a fundamental...
‘Cry Racism!’: The Art of Mis-Communication – Big Government
» ‘Cry Racism!’: The Art of Mis-Communication – Big Government.
Breaking: In Wake of Taping, Ashjian’s ‘Tea Party of Nevada’ Chairman to Resign, Endorse Angle – Big Journalism
… If anything, these covert tapes show off Angle’s conservative “chops” and that everything she has said on the campaign trail is exactly what she believes behind closed doors. You don’t find that often in politics. She believes the Republican establishment has lost its way on fiscal and Constitutional issues and that a new...
Pelosi’s vote to adjourn could be her last hurrah | Washington Examiner
Pelosi’s vote to adjourn could be her last hurrah | Washington Examiner.
Ominous new Gallup findings for Democrats: Blacks still love Obama, others not so much | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times
Ominous new Gallup findings for Democrats: Blacks still love Obama, others not so much | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times.
Obama’s promise to end tax cuts for rich unravels, 3 Options
FT.com / US / Politics & Foreign policy – Obama’s promise to end tax cuts for rich unravels.
Opinion: Health Care Lawsuit Tests Basic Constitutional Principles
Opinion: Health Care Lawsuit Tests Basic Constitutional Principles.
The Trade and Tax Doomsday Clocks – WSJ.com
Let’s start with taxes. If today’s low rates expire at year-end per current law, that would at a stroke reduce after-tax income for every working American, the average reduction being 3.3% according to the Tax Policy Center. Do the math: 94% of income goes to consumption, and consumption is 70% of gross domestic product....
Please support this GOP unknown who is in striking range of Barney Frank
… Bielat is 35 years old, a Marine who spent four years on active duty and is now a major in the Reserve. He’s a graduate of Georgetown University with a master’s from Harvard and an MBA from Wharton. He’s devoted a good portion of his professional life to manufacturing the high-tech robots that...
