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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…

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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…

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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

Blog

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

Blog

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

Blog

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

Blog

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

Blog

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

Blog

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

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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

Blog

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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