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ACORN Sues Whistleblowers for Exposing Its Wrongdoing in Scandal

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/24/2009

ACORN is now suing the whistleblowers who allegedly filmed it promoting illegal sexual activities for $2 million! And not just them, but…

Healthcare

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Hard-Left Obama Policies Draw Criticism for Undermining Democracy, Security, and the Rule of Law

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/23/2009

In his 2008 campaign, Barack Obama talked a lot about “bipartisanship,” but in office, he has governed from the far left, on both domestic and…

Energy and Environment

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Yet Another ACORN Scandal

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/23/2009

ACORN, which had its housing funds cut-off by Congress over a recent scandal, is now embroiled in a tax-evasion scandal, reports the…

Healthcare

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ACORN’s Empire Will Expand Under Obama’s Health-Care Plan and Financial Rules

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/22/2009

Congress recently voted to cut off federal housing funds to controversial group ACORN.  But since most federal money goes to ACORN-related…

Healthcare

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AP: Obama Health-Care Plan Raises Taxes, Breaks Campaign Promises

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/21/2009

The Associated Press is now chiding President Obama for falsely claiming that his proposed tax on uninsured people is not a tax.   It is…

Energy and Environment

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ObamaCare’s Smoke and Mirrors: Huge Costs Paid for by Imaginary Savings

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/21/2009

Obama’s health care plan uses imaginary savings to finance massive new spending. His claim that it will not increase the deficit is based on the…

Healthcare

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Democratic Governor Criticizes Deficit-Exploding Obama Health-Care Plan; Middle Class Faces Huge Health and Global-Warming Tax Hikes

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/17/2009

Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen (D) is criticizing Obama’s health-care plan as “the mother of all unfunded mandates,” saying it will force states to spend…

Energy and Environment

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Big Health and Energy Tax Increases for the Middle Class from Obama and Liberal Congressmen

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/16/2009

Even the trimmed-down version of Obama's health-care plan recently announced by a ranking Senator contains lots of tax increases for the middle class.

Energy and Environment

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Obama Financial Regulations Make Things Worse, Promote Risky Loans, Destroy Banking and Lending Options

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/15/2009

President Obama is now pushing financial regulations that reinforce the worst features of the status quo.  They…

Consumer Freedom

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Scientist Who Saved a Billion Lives Dies; Congress Blocks Reform of Law Based on Junk Science

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/14/2009

Norman Borlaug, the scientist who saved a billion lives by fathering the Green Revolution, died Saturday at the age of 95. His work…

Consumer Freedom

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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…

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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…

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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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