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EEOC Willfully Violated Pay Law, Arbitrator Rules

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/02/2009

Business and Government

Blog

Obama Follows in Hoover’s Footsteps

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/01/2009

During the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover damaged the economy, and impoverished the American people, with costly, artificial attempts to stimulate the economy through…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Bill Giving D.C. a Congressman Is Unconstitutional

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/01/2009

A bill that would give residents of Washington, D.C. a Congressman is unconstitutional, lawyers in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel concluded. But…

Law and Litigation

Citation

Uncertain Rights: Student Speech and Conflicting Interpretations of Morse v. Frederick

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/01/2009

Law and Litigation

Blog

“Robbery of the American People”

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/31/2009

“Nobel Prize-winning liberal economist Joseph Stiglitz points out that the Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s plan to have the government subsidize investments in ‘toxic assets’ creates…

Energy and Environment

Blog

AIG Chief Loves Vicious Left-Wing Terrorist?

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/31/2009

AIG Financial Products CEO Gerry Pasciucco wears a T-shirt emblazoned with the face of Che Guevara — the Cuban “revolutionary” and henchman of Fidel…

Law and Litigation

Blog

The EEOC: “The Fox Guarding the Henhouse”

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/31/2009

“The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, responsible for ensuring that the nation’s workers are treated fairly, has itself willfully violated the Fair Labor Standards Act…

Labor and Employment

Op-Eds

Americorps Plan Will Waste Money on Ideological Causes

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/31/2009

Despite exploding deficits, President Obama and congressional leaders are backing a $5.7 billion “national service” boondoggle. Obama’s proposed budgets, which break…

Business and Government

Blog

Billions More for Failed Bailouts

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/30/2009

Ironically, by getting rid of General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner, the Obama Administration has made it even harder for it to demand the painful…

Law and Litigation

Blog

Torture Caused Bogus Orange Alerts

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/29/2009

Many of those bogus orange alerts that inconvenienced and alarmed travelers since 9/11 had an unsavory source: torture. The Bush Administration, with the tacit…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Feds Make Freddie Mac Even Worse, Ripping Off Taxpayers

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/27/2009

After federal regulators took over failing mortgage giant Freddie Mac, they didn’t stop its risky lending practices. Instead, they ramped up its risk-taking, making it…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Geithner Seeks More Power to Ruin Our Economy

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/26/2009

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner wants a “vast expansion” of his power over the financial system. This is the same guy whose bungled…

Subsidies and Bailouts

Blog

Obama’s Policies Are “A Road to Hell,” European Leader Says

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/25/2009

“The president of the European Union on Wednesday slammed U.S. plans to spend its way out of recession as ‘a road to hell.’…

Regulatory Reform

Blog

$2 Trillion Tax from Obama: Hidden Costs of “Cap-and-Trade” Scheme

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/24/2009

Obama’s proposed “cap-and-trade” carbon tax on energy use and utility bills is expected to raise up to $2 trillion, more than the $646 billion…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Toxic-Asset Buy-Up: “Pure Plunder”?

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/24/2009

People who have actually read the fine print of the Administration’s trillion-dollar toxic asset buy-up program don’t like it. One calls it “pure plunder.”…

Regulatory Reform

Blog

Toxic Asset Rip-Off

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/23/2009

Obama is proposing that the Treasury provide loans up front and insurance against potential losses on the back end. It’s what Paul Krugman called "heads…

Regulatory Reform

Blog

“Heads I win, Tails the Taxpayers Lose”: Toxic Asset Rip-Off

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/23/2009

That’s how analysts describe the trillion-dollar toxic-asset buy-up program proposed this weekend by the Obama Administration: “the president is putting forth his idea to…

Regulatory Reform

Blog

Blind to Obama’s Broken Promises

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/23/2009

In 2008, Obama promised a “net spending cut” (although he never did come up with cuts to offset his proposed spending increases). Obama…

Subsidies and Bailouts

Citation

Herbert Obama: Obama’s protectionism and tax increases compared to Herbert Hoover’s

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/22/2009

Business and Government

Blog

Obama Budget Explodes Debt, Taxes, CBO Admits

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/20/2009

Obama’s budget would explode the national debt while increasing taxes. That’s the conclusion of the Congressional Budget Office, controlled by lawmakers who support…

Subsidies and Bailouts

Blog

Herbert W. Obama

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/20/2009

In the Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover raised marginal tax rates to 63%, and went on a deficit spending binge. He also signed…

Subsidies and Bailouts

Blog

A Cynical Poison-Pill Bill

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/19/2009

Yesterday, liberal lawmakers, after publicly blasting the multi-million dollar AIG bonuses as undeserved and excessive, privately voted down GOP proposals to limit them.

Subsidies and Bailouts

Blog

AIG Lies; Bonuses for Fannie & Freddie; Fed Explodes Money Supply, Risks Stagflation

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/19/2009

It’s not just AIG, being bailed out for $170 billion, that’s using taxpayer money to give fat bonuses to its employees. The same thing is…

Consumer Freedom

Op-Eds

Linda Greenhouse’s Sloppy Reporting

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/19/2009

Former New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse recently made a false claim at HLS that exemplifies her sloppy reporting. She claimed…

Law and Litigation

Blog

Hypocritical Posturing By Obama Over AIG Bonuses

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/17/2009

In response to public outrage, Obama is belatedly criticizing the millions of dollars in bonuses that AIG, which is being bailed by taxpayers at a…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Left-Wing Attorney General Ashamed of End to Discrimination

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/17/2009

A federal appeals court recently upheld an injunction barring a county official from continuing to prevent people from voting based on their race. The unanimous…

Law and Litigation

Op-Eds

Obama and Dodd Hypocritical on AIG Bonuses

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/17/2009

In response to public outrage, Obama is belatedly criticizing the millions of dollars in bonuses that AIG, which is being bailed by taxpayers…

Business and Government

Op-Eds

Obama and Dodd Hypocritical on AIG Bonuses

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/17/2009

In response to public outrage, Obama is belatedly criticizing the millions of dollars in bonuses that AIG, which is being bailed by taxpayers…

Business and Government

Blog

Bailouts for Liars, Illegal Aliens, and Undeserved Bonuses

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/15/2009

Insurance giant AIG, bailed out by taxpayers for $170 billion, is using taxpayer money to pay executives in the division that brought…

Labor and Employment

Op-Eds

Bailouts for Liars, Illegal Aliens and Unjust Bonuses

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/15/2009

The inept managers of the insurance giant AIG, which is being bailed out by taxpayers at a cost of over $170 billion, are using…

Business and Government

Blog

An Explosion of Litigation

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/13/2009

Already burdened by $8 trillion in new federal spending commitments and the likelihood of higher taxes to pay for bailouts,…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Economists Give Obama Failing Grade; New Bailouts Demanded As Obama Breaks Promises

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/12/2009

Obama gets a failing grade from economists. “U.S. President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner received failing grades for their efforts to…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Stimulus Subsidizes Corruption, Waste, Racism

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/10/2009

The $800 billion stimulus package signed by Obama not only will make the economy shrink over the long-run, it will pay $88.6 million…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Obama Insults America’s Allies, Endangers Economy

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/09/2009

Not content with endangering the economy by pushing through $8 trillion in bailouts and welfare, Obama has now insulted the…

Labor and Employment

Citation

More of Justice Ginsburg’s Political Activism

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/09/2009

Business and Government

Blog

$8 Trillion in Bailouts; Undeserving Rich Benefit

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/08/2009

Federal bailouts and related spending proposed by the Obama Administration now total 8 trillion dollars, according to the American Institute for Economic Research.

Consumer Freedom

Blog

90 Percent Tax Rate Proposed

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/07/2009

Congressman Jerry McNerney (D-California) has advocated raising marginal tax rates to 90 percent. Such a tax increase on the wealthy would be necessary, but…

Subsidies and Bailouts

Blog

Obama Bails Out Rich, Irresponsible People With LOW Mortgage Payments

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/06/2009

Yesterday, I wrote about how high-income people with $700,000 homes, who are in no danger of becoming homeless, would benefit from the Obama Administration’s…

Subsidies and Bailouts

Citation

The Mortgage Entitlement Bailout: Even Worse Than You Think

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/06/2009

Banking and Finance

Blog

Bailing Out the Reckless Rich, Harming Our Economy

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/05/2009

Well-to-do people will receive an unnecessary mortgage bailout, under a new federal program that will cut their payments to just 31 percent of their income…

Subsidies and Bailouts

Blog

Distorting the News, to Obama’s Advantage: Ledbetter v. Goodyear and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/04/2009

Distorted press coverage of a Supreme Court decision gave a big boost to the Obama campaign, which made the decision a major campaign…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Your Loss Is My Gain, Sucker!

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/03/2009

I am being enriched by a vast expansion of government that will impoverish you and your family, and shrink the size of the economy in…

Regulatory Reform

Blog

Stimulus Guts Welfare Reform, Is Deceptive

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 02/12/2009

The stimulus package will gut welfare reform even more than previously feared. That’s the conclusion of Mickey Kaus, a moderate Democrat who now…

Subsidies and Bailouts

Blog

Stimulus Package Shrinks Economy, Expands Welfare Rolls

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 02/10/2009

The Stimulus Package passed by the Senate will encourage people to stop working and go on welfare, undermining the 1996 welfare reform…

Law and Litigation

Blog

Stimulus Plan Harms Economy, Congressional Budget Office Admits

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 02/05/2009

The bloated $800 billion “stimulus” package would not only create a mountain of debt, it would harm the economy in the long run.

Subsidies and Bailouts

Blog

Stimulus Bill Is Full of Pork

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 02/05/2009

The $800 billion stimulus bill contains billions of dollars in pork and wasteful spending on items that have nothing to do with stimulating the…

Subsidies and Bailouts

Blog

Stimulus Plan Repeats Mistakes That Spawned Great Depression

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 02/03/2009

The European Union is threatening a trade war over provisions in the $800 billion “stimulus” package backed by Obama and Congressional leaders. The Great…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Opposition to “Stimulus” Package Rises

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 02/02/2009

Opposition to the $800 billion stimulus package continues to rise, and polls show support for it has fallen to 42%. Independent swing-voters oppose…

Subsidies and Bailouts

Blog

Obama Distorts Ledbetter v. Goodyear Case, In Signing Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 01/29/2009

In signing his first bill into law, Obama didn’t let facts get in the way of a good story, or milking a political wedge issue.

Labor and Employment

Blog

Stimulus Bill Triggers Legislative Logjams, Perpetuates Credit Crisis

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 01/27/2009

Obama’s stimulus package is the problem, not the solution. No one wants to make any hard decisions until they see what goodies they may get…

Subsidies and Bailouts

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