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Why Obama Doesn’t Want TARP Funds Returned

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This Wall Street Journal op-ed by Fox Business Channel host Stuart Varney should be read by one and all: I must be naive. I really thought the administration would welcome the return of bank bailout money. Some $340 million in ...
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The New Byrd-Hagel

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The Senate has voted 89-8 to oppose cap-and-trade if it raises electricity or gasoline prices. Of course, cap-and-trade would raise electricity and gasoline prices, so the Senate has effectively just gone on record 89-8 against cap-and-trade. In 1997, the Senate ...
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The California Drought’s Congressional “Kangaroo Court”

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The kangaroo waits for the hearing to begin. The kangaroo listens attentively to hearing proceedings. The National Center for Public Policy Research's Jeff Temple and Devon Carlin are seated to the kangaroo's left. Devon Carlin provides a report on the ...
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Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly Report the Alleged GE Corruption Story

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Here's Bill O'Reilly being interviewed by Glenn Beck, April 23, 2009, to tease the GE cap-and-trade story O'Reilly would present later that evening on the O'Reilly Factor. Here's the actual report by Bill O'Reilly on the O'Reilly Factor, April 23, ...
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Outrage of the Day: Obama’s Hypocrisy on Lobbying

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As a candidate for President, Barack Obama made attacking lobbyists one of the linchpins of his candidacy. As President, though, he seems to be of two minds. On the one hand, among other things that might loosely be described as ...
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Outrage of the Day: Senate Majority Leader Calls Chief Justice a Liar

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In what only makes sense as his latest entry in the highly-competitive Laughstock of Washington contest, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Friday called Chief Justice John Roberts a liar. Reid claims that, in not one but two judicial ...
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Outrage of the Day: Obama Raised Cash for Never-to-Be-Run Senate Race After Leaving Senate

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In a move that's cynical, even for him, Barack Obama was still raising money for his 2010 U.S. Senate re-election fund as late as December 26, 2008, more than a month after being elected President of the United States on ...
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Outrage of the Day: Waxman Drags Feet on Needed CPSIA Reform

Today's Outrage of the Day to Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), for his refusal to hold hearings on the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA), legislation adopted last year (see this blog's prior coverage here and here) that has ...
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Outrage of the Day: The Terrible Health Care Canadians and Britons Receive

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It's become fashionable in governing circles to deride the quality of the U.S. health care system to support an ideological agenda that says Americans would be better off with a government-run health system similar to Britain's or Canada's. The National ...
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Pickens Plan May Test Obama’s Leadership

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From David Almasi: Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli's commentary on the inherent problems within the "Pickens Plan" was published in today's Washington Examinernewspaper. Billionaire T. Boone Pickens claims altruistic reasons for promoting the construction of massive wind farms and converting ...
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