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  • Vote the Porkers Out of Office

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    Hopefully, the trend to oust the biggest porkers will continue. Appropriators from both parties have become the hunted, losing primary races to challengers more hawkish about reforming the provisions lawmakers insert in spending bills to steer money to specific projects in their districts or states. It is about time.  Although the total dollar amount involved […]

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  • SEIU and Michelle Obama’s Obesity Campaign

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    Unions, Unions, Unions… The well-intended program to feed poor kids has morphed into an untouchable universal entitlement with a powerful school lunch lobbying coalition of Department of Agriculture bureaucrats, food-service industry executives, and union bosses. Michelle Malkin lays it all out in this interesting article concerning Michelle Obama’s obesity campaign.  Here is another great point […]

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  • Kagan Has Second Amendment Contradictions

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    To Thurgood Marshall, the man’s “sole contention is that the District of Columbia’s firearms statutes violate his constitutional right to ‘keep and bear arms,’” Kagan wrote. “I’m not sympathetic.” She urged him to vote against hearing the man’s appeal in the case.  Yet, when it came time to be confirmed as Solicitor General, she changed […]

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  • Bankrupting the Country One Month at a Time

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    Reuters is reporting The United States posted an $82.69 billion deficit in April, nearly four times the $20.91 billion shortfall registered in April 2009 and the largest on record for that month, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday. During Obama’s tenure as President, the government has posted deficits every month.  If any other CEO were […]