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General Motors Repays Tiny Portion of Taxpayers’ $50 Billion Bailout; Obama Backers Bash Critics of Bailout

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/22/2010

President Obama’s tax-cheat treasury secretary, Tim Geithner, is trumpeting the fact that General Motors has paid back…

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Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on Depictions of Animal Cruelty

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/20/2010

In an 8-to-1 ruling, the Supreme Court has struck down a ban on depictions of animal cruelty as a violation…

Consumer Freedom

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Trojan Horse Financial “Reform” Bill Enriches Goldman Sachs, Rips Off Taxpayers

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/19/2010

The Obama administration and Congressional leaders are pushing a trojan-horse financial “reform” bill that would enrich the wealthy and powerful investment bank Goldman Sachs, which…

Consumer Freedom

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Taxpayers Take Another Hit from Obama; Administration Panders Yet Again to Big Labor

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/16/2010

Taxpayers will pay billions more due to an executive order signed by President Obama that effectively restricts federal construction contracts to the minority of construction…

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Justice Stevens Retires; Left-Wing Law Professor Nominated to Federal Appeals Court

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/16/2010

Justice John Paul Stevens, the leader of the Supreme Court’s liberal bloc, is retiring.  His most famous ruling is probably the 5-to-4 Kelo decision, which…

Consumer Freedom

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$800 Billion Stimulus Package Doled Out Based on Politics; Districts with High Unemployment Were Shafted

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/31/2010

“How is stimulus money allocated?  Unemployment isn’t a factor, but politics is,” found George Mason University researcher Veronique de Rugy in…

Labor and Employment

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Republicans Will Lose Many Seats in Congress Due to Right-Wing Paranoia About the Census

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/31/2010

Republicans will lose many seats in Congress due to right-wing paranoia about the census and refusal to fill out Census forms, gloats the liberal…

Consumer Freedom

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Millions of Seniors to be Dumped from Health Plans Due to New Health Care Law

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/30/2010

Two million seniors are expected to be dumped onto Medicare from company prescription medication plans, thanks to a poorly-vetted provision of…

Consumer Freedom

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Attorney Generals Challenge ObamaCare; New Health Care Law Increases State Budget Deficits, Imposes Marriage Penalties

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/24/2010

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and a dozen other attorneys general have filed lawsuits challenging the new health care law signed…

Consumer Freedom

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New Taxes on Investors in Obamacare, and Massive Marriage Penalties, Too

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/19/2010

The new tax on investors in the health care bill has been increased from 2.9 percent to 3.8 percent, but only a few media…

Consumer Freedom

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Health Care Bill Would Vastly Expand IRS Power; CBO Ordered to Base Cost Estimate on False Assumptions

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/19/2010

“House health care bill dangerously expands IRS power,” say a tax law professor and GOP leaders.   The Washington Examiner says that “16,500 more…

Consumer Well-Being

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Governors Criticize Health Care Bill for Increasing Unemployment and State Budget Deficits; Tax Increases and Medicare Cuts in Bill Rise

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/18/2010

Governors are now criticizing the health care bill backed by the Obama administration, saying it will cause health care costs and state deficits to…

Consumer Well-Being

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Even Associated Press Says “Beware” of Obama’s Health Care Overhaul; Retired Judge Calls Health Care Tactic Unconstitutional

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/17/2010

Even the Associated Press admits that President Obama is not telling the truth about his health care plan and how it would affect health…

Consumer Well-Being

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ObamaCare’s Enormous Cost Is Hidden by Dishonest Gimmicks, Says New York Times Columnist Who Supported Obama in 2008

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/14/2010

New York Times columnist David Brooks, like other columnists at that staunchly liberal newspaper, supported Obama in the 2008 election. But even he can…

Consumer Freedom

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$3,000,000,000,000 in Tax Increases in President Obama’s Budget

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/13/2010

The president’s proposed budget raises taxes by three trillion dollars over the next ten years, notes Washington fiscal analyst…

Consumer Freedom

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Obama Runs Up Largest Budget Deficit in American History; Monthly Deficit Alone Exceeds Entire Annual Deficit for 2007 Under Bush

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/11/2010

“The Obama Administration has run up the largest budget deficit in American history in February of 2010, a whopping total of $220.9 Billion in just…

Consumer Freedom

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Obama Administration Rewards Corrupt Mortgage Giants, Punishes Productive Private Banks, Fleeces Taxpayers and Responsible Credit Cardholders

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/10/2010

The Obama administration wants to increase taxes on productive banks that are self-supporting, while exempting the mortgage giants and other companies that got massive taxpayer…

Consumer Freedom

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The Hidden Costs of Health Care Reform: “Obamacare Is A Budgetary Disaster”

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/08/2010

The health care bills backed by President Obama will cost $2.3 trillion, not the $900 billion Obama claims, and will be a “…

Consumer Freedom

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Obama’s Policies Will Increase National Debt by $9.7 trillion, Says Congressional Budget Office

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/06/2010

“President Obama’s policies would add more than $9.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade, congressional budget analysts said Friday. . .The 10-year…

Consumer Freedom

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Obama Nominates Left-Wing Extremist Goodwin Liu to Appeals Court; Liu is Possible Supreme Court Nominee

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 03/05/2010

President Obama has nominated law professor Goodwin Liu, a left-wing extremist, to the nation’s largest federal appeals court, the Ninth Circuit. …

Energy and Environment

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“Health Care Freedom” Bills Pass Virginia Senate

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 02/06/2010

The Virginia State Senate passed “health care freedom” bills giving citizens the right not to be forced to buy health insurance.  This sets…

Consumer Freedom

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Do Corporations Have Free Speech Rights? The Supreme Court’s Ruling in Citizens United v. FEC

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 02/06/2010

In the Citizens United case, the Supreme Court recently struck down restrictions on…

Consumer Freedom

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Virginia Legislators Kill Bills to Mandate Child Support for Adult College Students

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 02/02/2010

Virginia legislators recently killed bills to extend child support to adult college students. The bills would have required a non-custodial parent to make payments to…

Consumer Freedom

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Why Supreme Court Justice May Have Been So Annoyed at the President’s State of the Union Address

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 02/01/2010

At the president’s recent State of the Union address, he misleadingly attacked the Supreme Court for supposedly “…

Consumer Freedom

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Maryland Legislators Seek to Jack Up Child Support Levels, Based on Bogus Inflation Rationale

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 01/28/2010

A bill, SB 252, was just introduced in Maryland to increase child support obligations for households at most income levels–a massive…

Consumer Freedom

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Experts Question Enormous Cost and Constitutionality of Healthcare Legislation

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 01/13/2010

The health care legislation backed by the president and congressional leaders will increase Americans’ health care costs by more than $200 billion,…

Consumer Freedom

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New Federal Program Kills Jobs, While Costing Taxpayers Half a Billion Dollars

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 01/11/2010

A federal biofuels program enacted in the name of fighting global warming and reducing dependence on foreign oil is instead killing jobs while perhaps…

Consumer Freedom

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Nobel Prize Winning Economist Says Obama Policies Delaying Economic Recovery

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 01/08/2010

In the Wall Street Journal, Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker and others explain how President Obama’s policies are delaying and retarding the inevitable economic…

Consumer Freedom

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More Enron-like Behavior by Administration Officials Comes to Light

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 01/07/2010

Earlier, the Washington Post reported on how the Obama administration pressured Freddie Mac not to disclose to investors and the SEC the $30…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Serial Rapists Roam Free in D.C. as the D.C. Government Shields Ex-Cons from Discrimination

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 01/06/2010

The D.C. government sometimes has more empathy for criminals than for their victims.   In December 2007, the D.C. Council voted to…

Consumer Freedom

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Virginia Weighs Discriminatory Mandate on Divorced Parents

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 01/06/2010

Married parents don’t have any legal obligation to pay for their adult children’s college education or living expenses. But a bill just introduced in…

Consumer Freedom

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Congress Mulls More Credit Card Restrictions, in Legislation Likely to Backfire on Consumers

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 01/05/2010

Some in Congress want to impose interest rate ceilings on credit cards and restrictions on interchange fees.  Australia tried the same thing, and it…

Consumer Freedom

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Government Uses Takeover of Mortgage Giants to Deliberately Increase Their Massive Losses at Taxpayer Expense

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 01/05/2010

The Wall Street Journal notes that the Obama administration has used the federal government’s bailout of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Obama’s Recent $75 Billion Mortgage Bailout Fails: Harmful to Economy, Housing, and Construction, Say Economists and Real Estate Experts

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 01/04/2010

Economists and real estate experts are saying that a $75 billion mortgage bailout program designed by the Obama administration has backfired and harmed the housing market,…

Law and Litigation

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Stimulus Package Forces States to Raise Taxes, Harms Economy

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 01/02/2010

The federal government’s $800 billion stimulus package, which failed to cut unemployment, is now forcing states and local governments to raise taxes. The Wall Street Journal…

Labor and Employment

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TSA Praises Itself After Year of Security Lapses; Obama Administration Backs TSA Unionization at Public Expense

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 12/31/2009

In a year-end message to Transportation Security Administration (TSA) staff, the agency praised itself for a “very good year” in airline…

Consumer Freedom

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Florida Attorney General Questions Constitutionality of Healthcare Bills in Congress

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 12/31/2009

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is questioning whether it is constitutional to force people to buy health insurance, as the health…

Consumer Freedom

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Is ObamaCare’s “Individual Mandate” Unconstitutional?

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 12/29/2009

The health care bills backed by the President require that individuals buy health insurance if it is not provided by their employer. Is that unconstitutional?…

Consumer Freedom

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Government Expands Fannie and Freddie Bailout and Lavishes Money on their CEOs

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 12/28/2009

Under the Bush administration, federal regulators took over Fannie and Freddie in the name of stopping their risky practices. But the Obama administration has increased…

Law and Litigation

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Terrorist Charged After Trying to Blow Up Plane; Government Undermines Airline and Railroad Security

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 12/27/2009

An alleged terrorist from Nigeria has been charged with plotting to blow up an airliner.  He carried explosives onto a plane…

Consumer Freedom

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False Claims by Government in Supreme Court Case: PCAOB Agency Is More Powerful and Independent Than Government Claims

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 12/06/2009

The members of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), an agency being challenged in the Supreme Court on December…

Law and Litigation

Blog

More Biased Press Coverage of the Supreme Court and Its Ledbetter Decision

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 12/06/2009

Press coverage of the Supreme Court is sometimes marred by ideological bias.  Liberal court reporters sometimes distort what Supreme Court justices say, or the facts of Supreme…

Law and Litigation

Blog

“Would ObamaCare Reduce Innovation?”: Health Care Bill Would Cause Preventable Deaths

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 11/30/2009

“Would ObamaCare Kill Medical Innovation?”  That’s the question posed by health care expert Michael Cannon.  His answer is yes:  “President Obama’s…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

How Capitalism and Property Rights Saved the Pilgrims From Starving

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 11/28/2009

Law professor llya Somin notes a “lesson of the original Thanksgiving: that the Pilgrims nearly starved to death because…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Moderates Criticize Health Care Bill As It Advances in Senate; Experts Gave Bill A “Failing Grade”

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 11/23/2009

On Saturday, the Senate voted 60-to-39, along party lines, to press towards passage of a massive health care bill, by blocking a…

Consumer Well-Being

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Healthcare Bill Advances in Senate, Despite Receiving Failing Grade from Health Experts; Democrats Block Filibuster in Party-Line Vote

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 11/21/2009

The healthcare bill is on the verge of passing the Senate, despite the fact that it has received a failing grade from healthcare experts like…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Reid Health Care Bill Adds New Tax Increases, Costs Twice As Much As Promised

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 11/19/2009

The health care “reform” bill drafted by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid adds new tax increases, and costs twice as much as its…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Harvard Medical School Dean Gives ObamaCare a “Failing Grade”

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 11/18/2009

"In discussions with dozens of health-care leaders and economists, I find near unanimity of opinion that the final legislation that will emerge from Congress will…

Consumer Freedom

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Senate Committee Rubberstamps Left-Wing Ideologue to Head Powerful OSHA Agency Despite His Anti-Gun and Pro-Junk-Science Views

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 11/18/2009

David Michaels, a left-wing ideologue who supports junk science and seeks to restrict gun possession, has been approved by the Senate Health Committee…

Consumer Freedom

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Stimulus Package Creates Imaginary Jobs, Destroys Jobs in the Real World

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 11/17/2009

President Obama’s $800 billion stimulus package creates imaginary jobs, while destroying ones in the real world. Billions from the stimulus…

Consumer Freedom

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