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Obama Administration Undermines Airline Security and Railroad Safety: 9/11 Lessons Ignored

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/13/2009

In the aftermath of 9/11, Congress foolishly shifted airline security screening to the inept Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which has failed to detect explosive ingredients…

Consumer Freedom

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Leftist Prosecutor Tries to Censor Video Embarrassing to ACORN

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/12/2009

ACORN, the group that helped launch Barack Obama’s career as a community organizer was recently caught in undercover stings advising about how to set up…

Law and Litigation

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Inept Liberal Lobbyists Refute Their Own Claims: the bungling Center for American Progress

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/11/2009

Many falsehoods were uttered by the President in his health care speech, as even liberal newspapers and Obama advisers have made clear.

Consumer Freedom

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Fact-Checking Obama’s Health-Care Speech: Many False Claims

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/10/2009

In his health-care speech last night, President Obama promised the world, but didn’t explain how he would pay for it. It was all sizzle,…

Healthcare

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“ObamaCare’s Crippling Deficits”

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/09/2009

Martin Feldstein, an economic advisor to Obama, criticized “ObamaCare’s Crippling Deficits” in Monday’s Wall Street Journal, noting that “the higher taxes, debt payments…

Healthcare

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Racist, Communist, America-Bashing Obama Adviser Resigns, Over Wacky 9/11 Conspiracy Theory

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/07/2009

Obama’s racist, communist, America-bashing Green Jobs Czar, Van Jones, has resigned after revelations that he was a 9/11 “Truther,” who believed that George Bush…

Energy and Environment

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UN Declares Dictator Fidel Castro a “World Hero”

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/04/2009

The UN has declared Fidel Castro, the longtime Communist dictator of Cuba, the “World Hero of Solidarity.” Castro killed thousands and thousands…

Law and Litigation

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Obama Imposes Sanctions on Impoverished Nation of Honduras, Despite Loss of Legal Basis for Doing So

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/03/2009

The Obama Administration formally cut off aid to the impoverished nation of Honduras today, and announced other impending sanctions, to pressure the country to…

Law and Litigation

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Obama’s Sanctions Cause Suffering, Malnutrition, and Unemployment in Honduras

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/02/2009

Earlier, I wrote about how the Obama Administration has imposed sanctions on the people of Honduras, such as blocking travel to the U.S.

Law and Litigation

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Will Support for Cap-and-Trade Energy Tax Melt Away? It’s Costly and Won’t Help the Environment

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/01/2009

In the name of cutting greenhouse gases, the House passed a cap-and-trade carbon tax scheme backed by the Obama Administration in June. But the bill…

Consumer Freedom

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Obama Health-Care Plan Would Drive Up Inflation and Health-Care Costs, Shrink Economy, and Reinforce Worst Features of Status Quo

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/31/2009

ObamaCare would shrink the economy, drive up health-care costs and inflation, and increase the deficit, notes David Kopel, a “lifelong Democrat.” Kopel…

Healthcare

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Obama to Cut Off Aid to Honduras, Based on Legal Mistake and Misreading of the Law

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/29/2009

The Obama Administration is about to cut off aid to Honduras, one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. Earlier, the Obama Administration…

Law and Litigation

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Obama Punishes Small Country for Court Ruling Refusing to Reinstate Bullying Ex-President and Would-Be Dictator

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/27/2009

The Obama Administration has decided to block travel by the people of Honduras to the United States to punish their country for its Supreme…

Law and Litigation

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Obama Keeps Lying About His Health-Care Plan, Even After Being Caught by Fact-Checkers

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/27/2009

You just can’t trust President Obama’s claims about his health-care plan. He keeps on lying even after he is caught lying and his lies have…

Healthcare

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Obama’s Health-Care “Reform” Contains Hidden Tax Penalties for Unsuspecting Taxpayers

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/25/2009

ObamaCare won’t just raise taxes on the rich, and impose tax penalties on people without approved health-insurance plans. It will also dramatically…

Healthcare

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Letting Illegal Immigrants Sink Health-Care “Reform”

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/24/2009

Mickey Kaus, who voted for Obama and wants universal health-care, wonders why Obama is damaging his credibility and endangering his health-care reform proposals by…

Healthcare

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More Legal Experts Say ObamaCare Is Unconstitutional

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/22/2009

More legal experts are questioning the constitutionality of ObamaCare.  In today’s Washington Post, two former Justice Department lawyers, David Rivkin and Lee Casey, argue that…

Healthcare

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New Credit Card Regulations Wipe Out Cash Back and Rewards Programs, Punish Responsible People

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/21/2009

If your credit is good, or your credit card balance is low, you may soon pay more on every credit card bill. Why? Congress passed…

Law and Litigation

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Yes, ObamaCare Will Likely Cover Illegal Immigrants

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/20/2009

Media fact-checkers have caught Obama telling several falsehoods about his health-care proposals. But they have let him get away with other false claims,…

Healthcare

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“ObamaCare Is All About Rationing” and Tax Increases, Obama Adviser Says

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/19/2009

“ObamaCare is all about rationing,” says one of Obama’s own advisers, Martin Feldstein. Feldstein earlier noted that Obama’s health-care plan would…

Consumer Freedom

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Legal Experts and Civil Rights Commission Attack Obama Health-Care Plan As Unconstitutional

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/18/2009

Constitutional law professor Rob Natelson argues that Obama’s health-care plan is unconstitutional in four different ways. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights…

Healthcare

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OSHA Nominee Is Anti-Gun Ideologue and Junk Science Peddler

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/17/2009

Obama has nominated David Michaels, an anti-gun activist, to head the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), a powerful agency that regulates real…

Consumer Freedom

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Obama Backs Costly Health-Care Status Quo, and Limits on Choice and Competition

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/15/2009

Germany is a lot smaller than the U.S., but it has a lot more health insurers to choose from, and cheaper health-care costs. One reason…

Healthcare

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Recession Ends in France, Without Massive and Costly U.S.-Style Stimulus Package

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/13/2009

The recession has ended in France, which avoided adopting a massive stimulus package like Obama's $800 billion stimulus package.

Trade and International

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Fact Checkers: Obama Is Lying About Health Care

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/12/2009

USA Today caught Obama telling three fibs about health care, such as falsely claiming that “under the reform we’re proposing, if you like your…

Consumer Freedom

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Civil Rights Commission Criticizes Obama Health-Care Plan’s Racially-Discriminatory Affirmative Action

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/12/2009

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights says Obama’s health-care plan is racially discriminatory. The House health-care bill backed by Obama is filled with “sections…

Healthcare

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“Join Your Fellow Pervs for Some Explicit, Twisted Fun” Courtesy of Obama’s Stimulus Package

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/11/2009

“Join your fellow pervs for some explicit, twisted fun,” urged a recipient of more than $25,000 from Obama’s $800 billion stimulus package, which…

Healthcare

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Child Killer Escapes Punishment: “Mom of starved Md. child to be released after plea”

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/11/2009

A Baltimore mother who deliberately starved her one-year-old son to death will soon be released after pleading guilty, reports the Associated Press in the…

Law and Litigation

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Why Intel’s Billion Dollar Fine Violates Human Rights Convention

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/10/2009

Intel alleges that its due process rights were violated by a massive $1.45 billion fine recently imposed as a result of a one-sided antitrust investigation…

Intellectual Property

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Deceptive Obama Health-Care Plan Worsens the Status Quo, Explodes Costs, Say Washington Post Columnists

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/10/2009

The Washington Post endorsed Obama — indeed, it hasn’t endorsed a Republican for president since 1952 — but a lot of Washington Post columnists are…

Healthcare

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Hate Crime in St. Louis? Obama Backers Beat Up Black Critic of Health-Care “Reform,” Use Racial Slurs

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/09/2009

Kenneth Gladney, a black critic of Obama’s health-care plan, was beaten, kicked, and called racist names by members of the SEIU, a…

Healthcare

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Deficit Rises $880 Billion to Record $1.3 Trillion, Due to Massive, Unprecedented Government Spending

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/08/2009

The federal budget deficit has already risen by $880 billion to an unprecedented $1.3 trillion. Most of the increase is attributable to recent…

Healthcare

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Liberal Congressional Leaders Buy Luxury Jets, Trash the Environment

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/06/2009

Congress plans to spend $200 million on luxury jets for liberal House leaders, even though it earlier denounced the automakers for having corporate…

Energy and Environment

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Obama Health-Care Plan Contains Affirmative-Action and Subsidies for Left-Wing Community Organizers Like ACORN

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/05/2009

The massively-costly health-care reform bills backed by Obama are riddled with provisions mandating “preference” for organizations that exhibit “cultural competency,” a politically-correct…

Healthcare

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Health-Care “Reform” Always Costs More Than Promised

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/04/2009

The depressing truth, as told by former Congressman Tim Penny (D-MN) and former Senator Rudy Boschwitz (R-MN).

Healthcare

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Frivolous Lawsuit Against Denny’s Over Salty Food

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/04/2009

Denny's has never claimed that it serves only health-food, and nutrition facts about its food are available on its web site. But that hasn't…

Consumer Freedom

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FDA to Smokers: Drop Dead

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 08/03/2009

The FDA is now moving towards banning a smoking alternative that could save many lives. Every year, millions of smokers like my wife try…

Consumer Freedom

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Billions More for Wasteful Auto Bailouts

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 07/31/2009

The auto bailouts keep expanding. Billions more are going to be spent on wealthy auto-dealers, cash-for-clunkers, politically-correct cars few people will buy, and excessive benefits…

Labor and Employment

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The Obama’s Administration’s Strange Double Standards on Hate Crimes, Terrorism, and Health Care: Soft on the Guilty, Cruel to the Innocent, Unfair to Taxpayers

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 07/30/2009

When black panthers were caught on videotape menacing white voters in Philadelphia, using nightsticks and racial epithets to drive them away from the polls,…

Healthcare

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Obama Backs Imperial Presidency

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 07/29/2009

Obama is backing an imperial presidency in Honduras. When Honduras removed its ex-president and would-be dictator, Obama demanded his reinstatement, even though he…

Healthcare

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Obama Health-Care Plan Will Harm People With Insurance, and Raise Taxes, Obama Adviser Says

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 07/28/2009

Obama’s health-care plan is drawing criticism from one of his own advisers, Harvard University’s Martin Feldstein. In today’s Washington Post, Feldstein warns that…

Healthcare

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Obama Health-Care Plan Would Take Away 5 Important Freedoms, CNN Says; Obama Would Also Raise Taxes, End Affordable Plans, and Break Promises

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 07/27/2009

CNN notes that there are “5 freedoms you’d lose in health care reform” as promoted by the Obama Administration: the freedom to choose your…

Energy and Environment

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Obama Health-Care Plan Destroys Cheap Health-Care Options, Raises Taxes, Breaks Promises

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 07/23/2009

In 2008, Obama promised not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year. But he is now breaking that promise by…

Consumer Freedom

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Corrupt, Bullying Nicaraguan Ruler Emboldened by Obama’s Demand That Honduras Accept Return of Would-Be Dictator

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 07/22/2009

Nicaragua’s corrupt, authoritarian president Daniel Ortega is now pushing a change to his country’s constitution to extend his rule. Ortega is a former communist…

Blog

Obama’s “Willful Disregard of Political Oppression” by Anti-American Dictators Is Admitted by Liberal Washington Post

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 07/13/2009

Obama has demanded that Honduras allow its anti-American would-be dictator, Mel Zelaya, to return to power, arguing that President Zelaya’s removal by the Honduras…

Law and Litigation

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Church Leaders, Senators Oppose Forcing Honduras to Reinstate Ousted President and Would-Be Dictator

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 07/10/2009

Honduran church leaders, and 17 U.S. Senators, are now opposing outside pressure on Honduras to reinstate the corrupt president that it ousted…

Law and Litigation

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Obama Nominee: Corrupt Foreign Rulers Have Right to Remain in Office Until They Receive “Judicial Process”

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 07/08/2009

Arturo Valenzuela, Obama’s nominee to be Assistant Secretary of State, falsely claims it was an illegal “coup” for Honduras to remove its corrupt would-be…

Law and Litigation

Blog

Obama: “Universal Principle” Gives Presidents the Right to Keep Ruling Even If They Violate the Law

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 07/07/2009

Honduras removed its would-be dictator, President Mel Zelaya, for violating his country’s constitution by seeking to extend his term in office, and replaced him with…

Law and Litigation

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Will Obama Blackmail Honduras Into Installing Would-Be Dictator?

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 07/05/2009

Obama is quite wrong to claim that the removal of Zelaya was "illegal." The Honduran president forfeited his right to rule under the Honduran Constitution.

Law and Litigation

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“Obama stands with tyrants,” “Sides with Chavez, Castro against Honduran Democracy,” Newspapers Say

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 07/02/2009

“Obama stands with tyrants,” writes the Washington Times. “When thousands of Iranians flooded the streets of Tehran protesting a rigged election and were…

Law and Litigation

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Washington Post Sells White House Access to Lobbyists, and Misreports Obama Health-Care Facts

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 07/02/2009

Until it was publicly-exposed, the Washington Post was selling its access to the White House to lobbyists. As Politico reported, “For…

Healthcare

Blog

More Risky, Low-Income Loans: Obama Asks Congress to Create a Harmful Consumer Financial Protection Agency

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 07/01/2009

Banks will now be pressured to make even more risky, low-income loans. Obama has sent to Congress his proposal to create a politically-correct Consumer…

Consumer Freedom

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More Welfare and Marriage Penalties from Obama and Liberal Congressmen

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 07/01/2009

Not content with repealing welfare reform through the job-killing stimulus package, and proposing a massive marriage penalty in the tax code,…

Blog

Obama Backs Dictatorship in Honduras

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/30/2009

Honduras removed its bullying, autocratic President after he began behaving as a dictator, and its Congress replaced him with a less power-hungry member of…

Law and Litigation

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Obama Blunders in Honduras and Afghanistan

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/29/2009

The U.S. is meddling in Honduras to prop up an anti-American ruler backed by Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. After Honduran president Manuel Zelaya attempted…

Law and Litigation

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Supreme Court Rules in Favor of White and Hispanic Firefighters in Ricci v. DeStefano

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/29/2009

The Court reversed a decision by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, including Judge Sonia Sotomayor. . . The Supreme Court held that this was…

Labor and Employment

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Obama’s Job-Killing Stimulus Package Replaced Investments With Welfare, Out of Political Correctness

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/25/2009

Obama’s $800 billion stimulus package was purged of most investments in roads and bridges, and filled instead with welfare and social spending,…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Obama Backs Corrupt Status Quo in Financial Rules Overhaul

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/23/2009

The mortgage crisis was caused largely by the reckless government-sponsored mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and by federal affordable-housing…

Law and Litigation

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FDA Tobacco Regulation May Harm Public Health By Blocking Healthy Alternatives

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/23/2009

FDA regulation may actually undermine public health by making it harder to market to smokers other tobacco products, like snus, that are not as lethal…

Consumer Freedom

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Commission Asks Justice Department Why Pro-Obama Thugs Got Away With Menacing White Voters

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/22/2009

Members of the NBPP were caught on film blocking access to the polls and physically and verbally intimidating voters. . . When the defendants did…

Law and Litigation

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Supreme Court Limits Voting Rights Act, But Declines to Strike Down Key Section of the Act

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/22/2009

The Supreme Court expanded the ability of local governments to “bail out” of a draconian provision of the Voting Rights Act, which requires them…

Law and Litigation

Blog

Stimulus = Welfare + Quotas + Corruption

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/20/2009

Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package is now being used to force states to adopt racial quotas in government contracts, even if their state constitution…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Obama Administration Gives Miranda Warnings to Enemy Combatants in Afghanistan, Even Though They Are Not Legally Required

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/19/2009

The Obama Administration is now requiring investigators to give Miranda warnings to some “captured foreign fighters” in Afghanistan, advising them that they…

Law and Litigation

Blog

The $60,000 Obama Health-Care Plan: It’s “Eye-Poppingly” Expensive on a Per-Person Basis

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/19/2009

Obama’s health-care proposals will cost well over a trillion dollars, without providing universal coverage. They are so “eye-poppingly” expensive that even Congressional Democrats have…

Healthcare

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U.S. Civil Rights Commission Opposes Federal Hate Crimes Bill on Double Jeopardy and Civil Liberties Grounds

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/18/2009

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has decided to oppose the federal hate-crimes bill. The Commission calls the bill a “menace to civil…

Law and Litigation

Blog

Obama Seeks to Mandate More Risky, Low-Income Loans by Banks, in New Financial Rules

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/17/2009

The President has just announced proposals for a major overhaul of the financial system. The proposals would force banks to make even…

Consumer Freedom

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Tourism Bill to Be Combined With Anti-Civil-Liberties Hate Crimes Bill

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/16/2009

If you were a tourist, would you like to come to a country where you could be tried twice for the same crime — even…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

More Government Waste, Corruption, and Corporate Welfare, Thanks to the Obama Administration

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/14/2009

Rapidly-rising Medicare spending already threatens “to crush the federal budget,” and much Medicare spending is wasteful, yet the Obama Administration claims it can…

Blog

In Cover-Up, Obama Fires Inspector General to Shield Crony and Waste Taxpayer Money

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/12/2009

Obama is firing an inspector general, Gerald Walpin, who uncovered wrongdoing by a prominent Obama supporter and opposed letting him off the hook. Ironically,…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Senate Passes FDA Tobacco Regulation Bill; Obama Will Sign It

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/11/2009

The Senate has just passed the FDA tobacco regulation bill by a 79-to-17 vote. The bill now goes to President Obama, who has…

Consumer Freedom

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FDA Poised to Regulate Tobacco, Which May Backfire

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/10/2009

Congress is about to enact a bill to subject tobacco to FDA regulation. Mark Berlind notes one anomalous feature of the bill: it…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Eleventh Circuit Grants Rehearing in Reeves v. C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Which Gutted Statutory Limits on Sexual Harassment Claims

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/10/2009

Can you sue your employer because your co-workers listen to raunchy radio programs? A federal appeals court is reconsidering its 2008 ruling…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Public Wants Wasteful Stimulus Package Canceled

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/10/2009

By a margin of 45% to 36%, the American people want to cancel the $787 billion stimulus package, reports pollster Rasmussen Reports. Economist…

Labor and Employment

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Supreme Court Vacates Stay Order in Chrysler Case, Refuses to Rule on Legal Challenges At This Time

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/09/2009

The full Supreme Court just vacated the stay that Justice Ginsburg earlier entered that had temporarily blocked the government’s plan for Chrysler. Why it…

Labor and Employment

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Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Illegal Chrysler Giveaway to UAW

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/09/2009

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg yesterday granted a stay temporarily blocking the government’s plan for Chrysler, which would give effectively give most of…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Stimulus Package Kills Jobs, Drives Up Unemployment

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/08/2009

Unemployment is now even higher than the Obama Administration said it would be if there were no stimulus package. At least 1.5 million…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Illegal Takeover of Chrysler: Pension Funds Have Standing in Indiana State Police Pension Trust v. Chrysler, LLC

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/08/2009

Earlier, I wrote about the Indiana pension funds’ challenge to the Obama Administration’s plan to effectively give Chrysler to the UAW Union, while cheating…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Court Rebuffs Challenge to Illegal Chrysler Bailout and Takeover; Pension Funds Will Appeal to Supreme Court

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/05/2009

A federal appeals court has refused to block the Administration’s illegal auto bailout, which rips off taxpayers and pension funds to enrich…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Illegal, Unfair Auto Bailout That Harms Retirees and Taxpayers Challenged in Chrysler Bankruptcy

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/04/2009

The Indiana State Teachers’ Retirement Fund is rightly challenging the diversion of tens of billions of dollars of federal TARP bank bailout money to…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Union Keeps Special Privileges Through Taxpayer Bailout of General Motors

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/03/2009

The federal government is spending more than $50 billion to bail out General Motors, with no end in sight. But the UAW union…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Obama Justice Department Protects Racist, Anti-Semitic Hate Group and Anti-White Voting Rights Violators

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/02/2009

Members of the New Black Panther Party, one of whom was an Obama campaign poll watcher and local democratic official, used nightsticks and racial…

Law and Litigation

Blog

Obama Panders to the UAW: $30 Billion More for Wasteful Auto Bailout

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/02/2009

The federal government is giving another $30 billion in taxpayer money to General Motors to allow it to operate without having to cut…

Energy and Environment

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Corporate Welfare on a Vast Scale: Obama’s Cap-and-Trade Scam Threatens Economy

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/01/2009

One of Obama’s own advisers admits that the cap-and-trade energy-rationing scheme backed by the “Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats” would “have a trivially small…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Stimulus Package Shrinks Economy, Destroys Private Sector Jobs

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/31/2009

Most of the $800 billion stimulus package has yet to be spent, but it’s already harming the economy, both by triggering trade wars that have…

Consumer Freedom

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Wasteful Obama Auto Bailouts Disturb Even Liberal Washington Post

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/30/2009

Even the liberal Washington Post, which endorsed Obama and has not backed a Republican for president since 1952, is getting fed up with the…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Obama Justice Department Winks at Racist Voter Intimidation

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/29/2009

Black Panthers in Philadelphia used nightsticks and racial epithets to drive white voters away from a polling place. “Career lawyers pursued the case for…

Law and Litigation

Blog

More Bailouts at Taxpayer Expense

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/27/2009

Mortgage lenders are getting even bigger taxpayer subsidies to write off mortgage loans for potentially delinquent borrowers, reports today’s Washington Examiner. “President Barack Obama…

Law and Litigation

Blog

Divorce Courts Harass Our Troops and Small Businesses

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/25/2009

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

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Chrysler Confronts Grim Future, Despite Billions in Taxpayer Subsidies

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/22/2009

The federal government poured billions of dollars into Chrysler, which then went bankrupt and merged with Fiat. But Chrysler may never revive, thanks to absurdly…

Energy and Environment

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Class Warfare Against the Financially Responsible

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/21/2009

Earlier, the Obama Administration pushed through $250 billion in mortgage bailouts, to bail out even some high-income borrowers with normal mortgage payments, and…

Subsidies and Bailouts

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Retirees, Taxpayers Ripped Off to Subsidize UAW

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/21/2009

Obama accused critics of his decision to give control of Chrysler to the United Auto Workers Union of being “speculators.” But it turns out…

Labor and Employment

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Wasteful Stimulus Package Fails Even In Short Term

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/19/2009

1.2 million Americans have lost their jobs since the $800 billion stimulus package was signed into law. The Congressional Budget Office predicted it would…

Labor and Employment

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Government Bullies Retirees, Banks, Rips Off Taxpayers

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/15/2009

The Obama Administration is now seeking to give the United Auto Workers Union a big chunk of General Motors, at the expense of taxpayers…

Consumer Freedom

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Stimulus Ignites Job-Killing Trade War With Canada

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/15/2009

The $800 billion stimulus package pushed through by Obama has ignited a trade war with Canada, reports the Washington Post. In response to vague…

Energy and Environment

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Adviser Admits Obama’s Tax Increases May Kill Economic Recovery

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/14/2009

Harvard economist Martin Feldstein, warns that “the barrage of tax increases proposed in President Barack Obama’s budget could . . . kill any chance of…

Consumer Freedom

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Law Professors Urge Supreme Court to Review Challenge to Powerful Agency, in Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/13/2009

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will weigh whether to decide what a federal judge called the “the most important separation-of-powers case regarding the President’s appointment…

Consumer Freedom

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Massive Tax Increase and Marriage Penalty from Obama

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/12/2009

Obama's proposed tax increases create a massive financial penalty for married couples, by subjecting them to much higher income taxes than if they had chosen…

Energy and Environment

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Deficit Skyrockets to $1.8 Trillion

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/11/2009

The White House predicts the budget deficit will top $1.8 trillion, four times 2008’s record. Obama has sought to blame the deficit on Bush.

Labor and Employment

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Taxing Away American Jobs

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/11/2009

Obama’s plan to raise taxes on the foreign operations of U.S. businesses may destroy management and professional jobs in the U.S., will put American business…

Labor and Employment

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Purpose of Hate-Crimes Bill Is To Promote Double Jeopardy and Shred Civil Liberties

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/09/2009

On April 29, the House voted 249-to-175 to pass the federal hate crimes bill, which the bill’s supporters explicitly want to use to prosecute…

Consumer Freedom

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