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Supreme Court Upholds Controversial Antiterror Law; More Clues About Elena Kagan

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/22/2010

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan was instrumental in getting President Clinton to veto a ban on partial-birth abortion.  She also lumped…

Consumer Freedom

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Obama Administration Blocks Clean-Up of Oil Spill by Louisiana and Foreign Allies By Imposing Red Tape

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/18/2010

The Obama Administration recently used red tape to force Louisiana to stop using 16 barges that were cleaning up the Gulf…

Consumer Freedom

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Congress Destroys Free Checking Accounts by Blocking Overdraft Fees for the Irresponsible

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/17/2010

Banks can afford to offer free checking accounts with no minimum balance, to responsible people, only because they can charge overdraft fees to irresponsible people. …

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Obama Uses Oil Spill to Push Failed Energy Policies

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/16/2010

In his speech last night, President Obama used the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to push his failed energy policies, such…

Consumer Freedom

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Financial “Reform” Bill Engages in Racial Engineering, While Ignoring Corrupt Mortgage Giants

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/15/2010

Congress and the Obama administration refused to do anything about the corrupt government-sponsored mortgage giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, even though administration…

Consumer Freedom

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Obama Blocked Clean Up of BP Oil Spill by Friendly Countries; International Assistance Blocked by Regulations Obama Had The Authority To Waive

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/14/2010

Crucial offers to help clean up BP’s oil spill “have come from Belgian, Dutch, and Norwegian firms that . . . possess some of the…

Consumer Freedom

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Obama Wants Taxpayers to Cough Up $50 Billion To Bail Out Public-Employee Unions

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/14/2010

President Obama now wants Congress to spend $50 billion to keep state governments from laying off government employees.  In essence, this is a bailout…

Consumer Freedom

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Obama Fires Inspector General Who Uncovered Fraud, and Honors Defrauder Instead

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/11/2010

Earlier, President Obama fired the inspector general for the AmeriCorps program after he uncovered fraud by Obama crony Kevin Johnson.  (Johnson did not…

Consumer Freedom

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AIG Bailout Had “Poisonous” Effect, Bailout Oversight Panel Says

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/10/2010

“American International Group Inc.’s bailout had a ‘poisonous’ effect on the U.S. financial system because it demonstrated the government would protect Wall Street firms from…

Consumer Freedom

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Judiciary Committee Votes to Promote Judge Who Made Excuses for Roadside Strangler, Claiming His “Sexual Sadism” Was a “Mitigating Factor”

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/10/2010

On a party-line vote, the Senate Judiciary Committee has approved President Obama’s promotion of a federal judge who tried to block the execution…

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BP Supported Obama Stimulus Package, Global Warming Bill, and Corporate Welfare; BP Bankrolled Obama Campaign

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/09/2010

Columnist Tim Carney notes that BP, responsible for the massive oil spill, is “a close friend of big government whenever it serves the company’s…

Consumer Freedom

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Global-Warming Bill Contains Ethanol Subsidies, Which Cause Famine, Hunger, Food Riots, and Political Unrest

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/07/2010

People across the world “are being battered by surging food prices that are dragging more people into poverty, fueling political tensions and forcing some to…

Consumer Freedom

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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“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

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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

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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

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

Blog

Class Action Lawyers Ripped Off Their Clients, With Approval From Federal Judge

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/26/2010

Class-action lawsuits all too often benefit only the lawyers, not the allegedly victimized consumers they claim to represent.  The Center for Class Action Fairness…

Law and Litigation

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“Economists: The Stimulus Didn’t Help”

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/26/2010

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

Labor and Employment

Blog

Arlington County Board Raises Taxes 10 Percent To Go On A Spending Binge In The Middle Of A Recession

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/26/2010

The Arlington County Board raised taxes nearly ten percent yesterday in order to increase County government spending even further.  Real estate…

Blog

Porn More Interesting to Media Than Flaws of Financial ‘Reform’ Bill; Obama Is “Lying His Face Off”

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/26/2010

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 senior…

Insurance

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Obama Uses Phony Rhetoric About Financial ‘Reform’ to Push Bill That Enriches Special Interests and Perpetuates Bailouts

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/23/2010

President Obama has collected millions from Wall Street special interests, his administration is chock full of Wall…

Consumer Freedom

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Parody Becomes Law: Crimes Against Homeless Become “Hate Crimes”; Hate-Crimes-Envy Spreads

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/22/2010

Florida is now poised to join Maryland and Maine in treating crimes targeting the homeless as “hate crimes,” with increased penalties of up to…

Law and Litigation

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