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Obama Uses BP Oil Spill to Push Corporate-Welfare-Filled Global Warming Bill That BP Once Lobbied For

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/04/2010

Talk about chutzpah.  President Obama, the biggest recipient of campaign cash from BP, is using BP’s oil spill to push for a global…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Media Give Disgraced Politician Eliot Spitzer a Soapbox to Lecture the Public

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/04/2010

Eliot Spitzer, who was forced out as Governor of New York after paying prostitutes tens of thousands of dollars and then violating federal finance laws…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Obama Administration Pushes More Bailouts at Taxpayer Expense; America to Bail Out Corrupt Union Pension Funds

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/02/2010

The Obama administration and its congressional allies are now pushing for billions more in bailouts for mismanaged union pension  funds, and teachers unions. The union…

Labor and Employment

Blog

BP: A “Serial Environmental Criminal” With Close Ties To The Obama Administration

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/02/2010

BP, which is responsible for the terrible oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, has a safety record infinitely worse than other oil companies, which…

Consumer Freedom

Op-Eds

Obama’s Next Bailout Beneficiaries: Corrupt Union Pension Funds

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/02/2010

The Obama administration and its congressional allies are now pushing for billions more in bailouts for mismanaged union pension  funds, and teachers unions.

Business and Government

Blog

Divorce Courts Mistreat America’s Soldiers and Small Businesses

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/01/2010

Memorial Day is an opportunity to thank our troops, and open our eyes to the disgraceful way they are treated by divorce courts. The bias…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Massive Fare Hike in Washington, D.C. Subway System; Public Sacrifices, Overpaid Union Doesn’t

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/28/2010

The mismanaged Washington, D.C. Metro system is pushing through huge fare hikes,  not only increasing subway and bus fares, but adding a new 20…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Myths About Green Energy: The Truth Is, It’s Corporate Welfare That Destroys American Jobs

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/28/2010

In The Washington Post, Robert Bryce debunks five myths about green energy: it won’t create jobs, won’t help the environment, and won’t make America…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Obama Justice Department Sued Over Stonewalling and Cover-Up in Black Panther Case

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/26/2010

Judicial Watch is suing the Obama administration over its stonewalling in the Black-Panther voter intimidation case, where the administration has flouted the Freedom of…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Congress Expected to Vote Soon on Repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Policy Restricting Gay Soldiers

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/26/2010

“Separate votes” are expected “in the House and Senate later this week on legislation repealing the ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ restriction on gays serving…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

More Bailouts for Corrupt Mortgage Giants: “More Aid Expected for Fannie, Freddie”

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/26/2010

The bailouts are getting even bigger, for the most undeserving recipients.  “More Aid Expected for Fannie, Freddie,” reports The Washington Post. The Obama administration…

Consumer Freedom

Op-Eds

Obama Administration Fosters Thug-Friendly Climate (Letter to the Editor)

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/25/2010

The Examiner was right to criticize D.C. Police for escorting union thugs to the home of a Bank of America lawyer, whose terrified young…

Free Speech

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Corrupt Mortgage Giants Escape Reform: “Obama Administration Says Fannie, Freddie Reform ‘Too Hard'”

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/24/2010

There won’t be any reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the corrupt, government-sponsored mortgage giants that even Obama administration officials admit were at…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Stimulus Package Increases Trade Deficit: Replaces U.S. Jobs with Foreign “Green Jobs”

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/24/2010

The $800 billion stimulus package is shipping American jobs overseas.  More than 79 percent of “green jobs” funding under the stimulus package went to…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Senate Passes Financial “Reform” Bill, 59-39; Will Wipe Out Jobs and Increase Credit Card Costs

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/21/2010

The Senate has just passed a 1,500 page financial “reform” bill that deliberately leaves unreformed the corrupt mortgage giants that spawned the financial crisis–while…

Consumer Freedom

Citation

The Other Blumenthal Scandal

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/21/2010

Banking and Finance

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Justice Department Lawyer Resigns Due to Politicization of Justice Department; Obama Administration Defies Civil Rights Commission

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/20/2010

A career Justice Department lawyer has resigned after the Obama administration defied a subpoena from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.  The Commission is…

Consumer Freedom

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Kagan Shirked Duty to Defend Federal Laws Protecting Crime Victims

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/19/2010

Federal law authorizes life sentences without parole for particularly heinous violent crimes committed by 16 and 17-year olds.  But Solicitor General Elena Kagan was…

Consumer Freedom

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Legal Elites Chip Away at Protections Against Violent Crime

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/19/2010

On Monday, the Supreme Court, citing “international opinion,” outlawed life imprisonment without parole for juveniles who commit rape, torture, and other non-homicide crimes. Earlier,…

Consumer Freedom

Op-Eds

Monday’s SCOTUS Decision Sickening

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/18/2010

The Supreme Court has just held that violent juveniles cannot be given a life sentence without the opportunity for parole, unless they succeed in…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Supreme Court Overturns Life Sentences Without Parole for Violent Juveniles, Citing “International Opinion”

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/17/2010

The Supreme Court has just held that violent juveniles cannot be given a life sentence without the opportunity for parole, unless they succeed in killing…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Radical Law Professor Goodwin Liu Approved as High-Ranking Judge by Senate Judiciary Committee, on Party-Line Vote

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/14/2010

Radical law professor Goodwin Liu was approved to sit on the federal appeals court for the Ninth Circuit in a party-line, 12-to-7…

Labor and Employment

Citation

In Liu of Qualifications?

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/14/2010

Law and Litigation

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Bailout Supporters Lose Elections in Germany and Utah; Obama Administration Presses Ahead With More Bailouts

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/13/2010

Senator Robert Bennett lost reelection in Utah’s Republican primary amidst anger over his vote for the $700 billion bank bailout known as TARP.

Law and Litigation

Op-Eds

Dems Block Reform of Corrupt Mortgage Giants

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/13/2010

In a party-line, 56-to-43 vote Tuesday, Senate Democrats blocked any reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the corrupt, government-backed mortgage giants…

Banking and Finance

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Democrats Block Reform of Corrupt Mortgage Giants; Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Will Receive Billions More in Bailouts for Government-Sponsored Enterprises

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/12/2010

In a party-line, 56-to-43 vote yesterday, Senate Democrats blocked any reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the corrupt, government-backed mortgage giants that…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

ObamaCare Deeply Unpopular: Democratic Congressman Who Voted for Health Care Bill Loses Primary Election

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/12/2010

ObamaCare is so unpopular in West Virginia that veteran Democratic Congressman Alan Mollohan lost reelection in yesterday’s Democratic primary to a state senator who…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Obama Nominates Liberal Lawyer Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/10/2010

President Obama has nominated liberal lawyer Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court.   She currently serves as Solicitor General.  Before that she was dean at…

Law and Litigation

Blog

Mortgage Giant Seeks Another $8.4 Billion in Bailouts, After Obama Lifts $400 Billion Limit on Bailouts for Government-Sponsored Enterprises

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/10/2010

Mortgage giant Fannie Mae is seeking another $8.4 billion in federal bailout money, after the Obama administration earlier lifted a $400 billion limit…

Consumer Freedom

Op-Eds

GM Deliberately Tried to Deceive Americans (Letter to the Editor)

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/09/2010

The Examiner was right to criticize General Motors for falsely claiming in a recent TV ad campaign to have “repaid”—“in full”—what it received from…

Antitrust

Blog

Taxpayers to Put Up Billions More for Bailouts of Greece and Corrupt Mortgage Giant

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/06/2010

Government-sponsored mortgage giant Freddie Mac is demanding another $10.6 billion in bailouts, which the Obama administration is expected to give it. Obama’s so-called…

Labor and Employment

Op-Eds

What Do Arlingtonians Get For Their Always-Rising Tax Bills? (Letter to the Editor

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/06/2010

I was saddened that the County Board raised taxes on April 24 to pay for a billion-dollar spending spree. All over the…

Transportation

Blog

General Motors Accused of Fraud Over Misleading Claim That It Paid Back Taxpayers; CEI Files FTC Complaint

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/04/2010

The Competitive Enterprise Institute filed a complaint today against General Motors with the Federal Trade Commission, over…

Consumer Freedom

Comment

CEI’s FTC Complaint Against General Motors Over Bailout ad

  • By: Hans Bader, Sam Kazman
  • 05/04/2010

Full Document Available in PDF CEI today accused GM of deceptively advertising that it had repaid its government bailout.  In a formal complaint…

Business and Government

Op-Eds

GM’s Tricky Payback

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/04/2010

President Obama’s tax-cheat treasury secretary, Tim Geithner, is trumpeting the fact that General Motors has paid back a small fraction of what taxpayers…

Automobiles and Roads

Op-Eds

“Financial Deform: So-Called U.S. bank Reform Does Little But Hurt Taxpayers”

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/04/2010

The CEO of Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street firm the SEC has accused of fraud, has endorsed the so-called financial “reform” bill…

Antitrust

Citation

GM Named in Deceptive Advertising Complaint Filed with FTC

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/04/2010

Business and Government

Citation

Punish GM’s False Advertising

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/04/2010

Antitrust

Blog

Bogus Financial “Reform” Bill Regulates Internet, Does Nothing About Corrupt Government-Sponsored Mortgage Giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/03/2010

The so-called financial “reform” bill backed by President Obama gives federal bureaucrats new powers over the Internet, while doing nothing about the corrupt government-backed…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Hypocritical California Government Boycotts Against Arizona Over Immigration Law

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/29/2010

“Representatives at three levels of California government were quick to call for economic measures against neighboring Arizona this week in the wake of its…

Labor and Employment

Blog

“Nearly Two-Thirds of Americans Say the Stimulus Isn’t Working”

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/29/2010

“Nearly two-thirds of Americans do not believe the $787 billion stimulus package the president passed last year has helped create jobs, according to a…

Labor and Employment

Op-Eds

General Motors Still Losing Billions (Letter to the Editor)

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/29/2010

The Washington Times was right to criticize the Obama administration for its misleading hype about General Motors repaying $6.7 billion of the $50…

Automobiles and Roads

Blog

Supreme Court Overturns Ban on Cross; Gay-Marriage Opponents Will Lose Privacy Battle; Controversial Judicial Nominees; Wal-Mart Faces Mega-Lawsuit

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/28/2010

In a splintered ruling, the Supreme Court ruled that a trial judge erred in issuing an injunction against a cross honoring veterans. It…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Goldman Sachs Endorses Trojan-Horse Financial “Reform” Bill; Bill Has Payoffs for Special Interests

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/28/2010

The CEO of Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street firm accused of fraud by the SEC, has endorsed…

Consumer Freedom

Op-Eds

ObamaCare vastly expands IRS red tape

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/28/2010

“Billions of more documents” will be have to be filled out by small businesses for the IRS so that a “spendthrift Congress can shake…

Banking and Finance

Blog

ObamaCare Vastly Expands IRS Red Tape and Power, Raises Medical and Insurance Costs, Taxes, and Deficits, and Harms Very Sick People

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/27/2010

“Billions of more documents” will be have to be filled out by small businesses for the IRS so that a “spendthrift Congress can shake…

Consumer Freedom

Op-Eds

Enough with SEC Porn; What about Obama’s Financial Lies?

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/27/2010

There are plenty of problems with the financial “reform” bill, but the media aren’t interested in that. They’re much more interested in revelations that…

Banking and Finance

Op-Eds

Economists: Stimulus Didn’t Contribute to Economic Rebound

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/27/2010

“The recovery is picking up steam as employers boost payrolls, but economists think the government’s stimulus package and jobs bill had little to…

Business and Government

Citation

CCAF files Bluetooth appeal brief

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/27/2010

Business and Government

Blog

ObamaCare Will Raise Insurance Premiums and Health Care Costs, Perhaps Bankrupt Hospitals, Federal Officials Admit

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/26/2010

“Economic experts from President Obama’s own Health and Human Services Department have released a devastating report noting that Obamacare ‘will increase national health care…

Consumer Freedom

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