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Five Radicals Approved for Judgeships by Senate Judiciary Committee

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/24/2010

Five radicals have been approved for judgeships by the Senate Judiciary Committee, voting along party lines. The committee held over for…

Law and Litigation

Blog

Obama Financial Czar Appointment Is Unconstitutional, Liberal Law Professor Says

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/23/2010

Obama has appointed controversial Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren to informally run the powerful, newly-created Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection that will regulate the…

Law and Litigation

Blog

Many Free Checking Accounts Disappearing Due to Dodd-Frank Financial “Reform” Law

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/22/2010

The so-called financial “reform” bill that passed Congress — the Dodd-Frank Act — is wiping out many free checking accounts, since…

Law and Litigation

Blog

Unfair ‘Paycheck Fairness Act’ Shafts Workers With Hazardous Jobs

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/22/2010

We wrote earlier about the Paycheck Fairness Act, a bill of Orwellian deception that would result in employees unfairly receiving equal pay…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Insurers Drop Children’s Health Insurance Due to Obamacare

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/21/2010

Insurers have stopped writing children-only health insurance policies due to mandates in Obamacare that ignored basic principles of economics.  So if…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

General Motors Now Admits It Didn’t Repay Bailout Money

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/20/2010

Contrary to its claims in TV ads earlier this year, General Motors has now admitted that it did not repay…

Consumer Freedom

Comment

Supplement to Complaint of Deceptive Advertising Against General Motors Company

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/20/2010

Full Document Available in PDF After General Motors admitted in the news media that the…

Business and Government

Study

BONG HiTS 4 JESUS: The First Amendment Takes a Hit

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/20/2010

Full Document Available in PDF…

Consumer Freedom

Citation

List of nation’s worst AGs includes Rhode Island’s Patrick C. Lynch

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/20/2010

Health and Safety

Blog

Insurance Regulators Approve Increases Based on Obamacare

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/19/2010

In Connecticut, insurance rate regulators have approved hikes in insurance premiums of up to 20 percent, agreeing with insurers that…

Consumer Well-Being

Blog

President Renominates Radicals and Oddballs for Judgeships

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/17/2010

President Obama has just renominated four controversial men to judgeships, even though they previously failed to get confirmed by the Senate…

Law and Litigation

Blog

Obama’s Broken Pledge to Cut Wasteful Spending

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/16/2010

When Obama was elected, he claimed he would “go through our federal budget– page by page, line by line–eliminating those programs we don’t need.”…

Regulatory Reform

Blog

Obama Aides Cheat on Taxes, as Obama Administration Raises Taxes and Violates Constitution

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/10/2010

Forty-one aides to President Obama owe $831,000 in back taxes.   Meanwhile, as noted earlier, unpaid taxes have risen 37 percent among Capitol Hill…

Blog

Obama Administration Mandates More of the Risky Loans That Spawned the Mortgage Crisis

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/10/2010

The federal government is now expanding the affordable-housing mandates that helped spawn the mortgage crisis by goading mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to…

Labor and Employment

Blog

America Declines in Property Rights, Rule of Law

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/09/2010

The World Economic Forum says that property rights are deteriorating in the United States, to the point where America ranks behind third-world countries…

Labor and Employment

Blog

New Stimulus Plan Gets Skeptical Response, Even From Democrats

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/09/2010

Obama’s plan for $50 billion more in stimulus spending is getting a skeptical response even from some Democratic lawmakers.  (We explained earlier why…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Obama Proposes $50 Billion More in Wasteful Deficit Spending

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/08/2010

President Obama has proposed $50 billion more in deficit spending after his original $800 billion stimulus package…

Energy and Environment

Blog

You Were a Sucker If You Were Responsible, Thrifty, and Saved Money for a Down Payment

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/07/2010

The Obama administration will launch today a new $14 billion program to bail out some people who are underwater on their mortgages.  During the…

Consumer Freedom

Op-Eds

CBO Says Stimulus Will Increase Deficit (Letter to the Editor)

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/05/2010

In his Commentary column, “The Recovery Act Worked,” Michael Cassidy wrongly denies that the $800 billion stimulus package “will make the federal deficit worse.” It…

Business and Government

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Unemployment Jumps to 9.6%, 54,000 More Jobs Lost

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/03/2010

Unemployment went back up to 9.6%, as the nation shed 54,000 jobs in August.  Yet Obama calls this “Recovery Summer.”  This is…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Federal Government Wastes Millions on Vacant, Run-Down Buildings, Including a Pink Monkey House

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/02/2010

The Department of Veterans Affairs is spending millions annually on 314 run-down, vacant buildings, including a pink monkey house. “The buildings are home to…

Law and Litigation

Blog

Record Federal Spending Increase Due to Wasteful Spending Like the Failed Stimulus Package

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/01/2010

Federal domestic spending increased by a record 16 percent this year, thanks to wasteful spending by the Obama administration, such as its “huge economic…

Consumer Freedom

Citation

Blumenthal: The ‘A’ in AG is for Activist

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/17/2010

Law and Litigation

Citation

Could the events surrounding the Rutgers suicide be considered a hate crime?

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/17/2010

Law and Litigation

Op-Eds

Civil Rights Division Pursues Wacky Radical Agenda (Letter to the Editor)

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/15/2010

It was extremely depressing to read that the Obama Justice Department blocked Amazon from selling a talking Kindle reader because its “talk” button doesn’t have…

Business and Government

Blog

Government Spends Billions Bailing Out Foreign Firms and Countries, and Replacing American Jobs With Foreign Green Jobs

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/12/2010

Our government spent as much money bailing out foreign firms as some countries spent on stabilizing their entire financial system.  Much of the money…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Government-Sanctioned Lying and Reparations Increase National Debt: The Pigford Class Action

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/12/2010

There are only 36,697 black farmers in the entire country, but in a class-action lawsuit, more than 86,000 African-Americans claimed to have suffered…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Financial “Reform” Harms Farmers, While Leaving Corrupt Government-Sponsored Mortgage Giants Unreformed

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/11/2010

Farmer Betsy Jensen explains how the so-called financial “reform” bill signed by President Obama will harm agricultural markets, and thus farmers, in today’s New…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

House Approves Obama’s $26 Billion Public-Employee Bailout By a Vote of 247-161

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/10/2010

The House has just approved President Obama’s $26 billion public-employee bailout by a vote of 247 to 161. Billions will now go disproportionately to…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Oh, the Horror! Budget Cuts Mean Pampered Artists Get Less Government Money to Insult Taxpayers

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/10/2010

Thanks to budget cuts under England’s new Conservative coalition government, “London may no longer be ‘a beacon for controversial pieces’ such as last year’s…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Why Mortgage Giant Freddie Mac Is Getting a Bailout: Costly Obama Policies and Giveaways

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/10/2010

Earlier, I wrote about mortgage giant Freddie Mac’s demand for $1.8 billion more in bailouts. Why does it still need more bailout money, when…

Consumer Freedom

Citation

Constitutional challenge to state-backed tobacco cartel rejected

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/10/2010

Health and Safety

Blog

House Panel Releases Ethics Charges Against Rep. Maxine Waters

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/09/2010

A House ethics panel has released the charges against left-wing firebrand Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) arising out her shady dealings with OneUnited Bank. (Her…

Law and Litigation

Blog

Government-Sponsored Mortgage Giant Seeks $1.8 Billion More in Bailouts

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/09/2010

Mortgage giant Freddie Mac is seeking $1.8 billion more in bailouts from the federal government.  This mortgage giant, and its sister company, Fannie Mae,…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Obama Justice Department Uses Americans with Disabilities Act to Harm the Disabled, Risk Lives, and Undermine Safety

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/09/2010

“Amazon.com . . . tried to sell a talking Kindle reader, but” the Justice Department “said it couldn’t because the button to make the…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

131,000 Jobs Lost in July; Obama Aide Abandons Ship; Economists Criticize Obama; More Bailouts

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/06/2010

“Non-farm job losses hit 131,000 in July,” on top of a loss of 97,000 jobs in May and June.  Another Obama economic advisor is…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Elena Kagan Confirmed, 63-37, for Supreme Court; Divided Senate Approves Nomination in Partisan Vote

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/05/2010

The Senate has voted 63-to-37 to confirm Elena Kagan as the next Supreme Court justice. Click here for details. The vote…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Obama Pushes More Bailouts; Nobel Laureate Criticizes Obama Policies

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/05/2010

Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith criticizes the Obama Administration’s  stimulus package and skyrocketing deficit spending, saying that deficit-financed stimulus is “the problem, not the…

Labor and Employment

Blog

“Mom Who Starved Son Praised by Judge”

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/04/2010

That’s the headline from the Associated Press.  A Baltimore mother got nothing more than a suspended sentence for starving her 1-year-old son to…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Missouri Voters Overwhelmingly Reject ObamaCare’s Individual Mandate in Referendum

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/04/2010

“Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a federal mandate to purchase health insurance, rebuking President Barack Obama’s administration and giving Republicans their first political…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Left-Wing Politician Faces Ethics Charges for Improperly Using Influence to Aid Bank

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/03/2010

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is facing ethics charges after she improperly used her influence to get special favors from regulators, and costly taxpayer bailouts,…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Paycheck Fairness Act Would Mandate Equal Pay for Unequal Work

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/02/2010

The Obama administration wants to force employers to pay some people equal amounts for doing unequal work, through a deceptive bill known as the Paycheck…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Judge Lets Virginia Challenge ObamaCare’s Individual Mandate, Refusing to Dismiss Lawsuit

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/02/2010

A federal judge in Virginia has allowed the state’s lawsuit challenging the federal individual health care mandate to proceed: “A judge on Monday…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Obama Hypocritically Embraces Legal Doctrine He Earlier Attacked

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 07/29/2010

In response to a lawsuit by the Obama Justice Department, a federal judge appointed by Bill Clinton has enjoined parts of Arizona’s new law…

Law and Litigation

Blog

Jim Hood: Another of the Nation’s Worst State Attorneys General

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 07/28/2010

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has a truly awful record, as today’s Wall Street Journal notes, citing his links to trial lawyers who tried…

Consumer Freedom

Citation

Another Activist AG Bites the Dust

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 07/28/2010

Law and Litigation

Citation

AG Edmondson loses primary in governor’s race

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 07/28/2010

Law and Litigation

Op-Eds

Bill Would Mandate Equal Pay for Unequal Work (Letter to the Editor)

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 07/27/2010

Diana Furchtgott-Roth was right to criticize a bill that would require some people who do unequal work to be paid equal amounts. The perverse “Paycheck…

Business and Government

Citation

Hans Bader on the Nation’s Worst Attorneys General

  • 07/27/2010

Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Attorney Hans Bader talks about his report "The Nation's Worst State Attorney General."…

Law and Litigation

Blog

America’s Worst State Attorney Generals Exposed; Consumers and Businesses Ripped Off

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 07/26/2010

The nation’s worst state attorney generals use lawsuits as a weapon to redistribute billions of dollars from businesses and consumers to their wealthy trial-lawyer friends…

Consumer Freedom

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