Archive for Category: "Corruption"

June 13, 2011 05:24

Time for a Return to Checks and Balances

[I]t has been observed that President Obama’s disregard for the limits of his office exceed anything conceived by his predecessor.

June 13, 2011 04:56

Obama’s electric rate raising anti-coal agenda a payback?

[W]ho benefits from his plans wreck a major portion of our economy while also boosting electricity prices across America?

June 10, 2011 06:16

Government decides what light bulbs you can buy

The bulb ban makes sense only one of two ways: either as an expression of cultural sanctimony, with a little technophile thrown in for added glamour, or as a roundabout way to transfer wealth from the general public to the few businesses with the know-how to produce the light bulbs consumers don’t really want to buy.

June 9, 2011 07:41

Is the NAT GAS Act an EPA Trojan horse?

“Section 403” [..] could clear the legal path for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to pursue the Obama administration’s entire energy agenda via back-door regulations.

June 8, 2011 03:59

President Obama’s phony accounting on the auto industry bailout – lies, lies and damn lies

“What we found is one of the most misleading collections of assertions we have seen in a short presidential speech. Virtually every claim by the president regarding the auto industry needs an asterisk, just like the fine print in that too-good-to-be-true car loan.” -Washington Post

June 3, 2011 05:23

Looney Left Sues for Cash Rewards For Failing Schools

[L]itigation of this sort transfers control over an important issue like school funding from branches of government that are accountable to taxpayers and voters to a cluster of private litigators, expert witnesses, special masters, consultants, law professors, backers in liberal foundations, and so forth.

June 2, 2011 07:50

Obama’s union payback to cost taxpayers $14 billion

Obama illegally gave ownership shares to the auto workers union who spent millions to elect Democrats leaving US taxpayers holding the empty bag.

June 2, 2011 05:57

NY Dem using pension funds to extort campaign funding

New York City Comptroller John Liu and New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio announced last week that their efforts to require Sprint Nextel to disclose political spending had taken a step forward.

May 26, 2011 06:33

Congress profits on insider stock trading with immunity

[L]awmakers and their staff members largely have immunity from laws barring trading on insider knowledge that have sent many a private corporate chieftain to prison.

May 25, 2011 06:12

Obama skirts rule of law to reward pals, punish foes

Punishing enemies and rewarding friends — politics Chicago style — seems to be the unifying principle that helps explain the Obamacare waivers, the NLRB action against Boeing and the IRS’ gift-tax assault on 501(c)(4) donors.