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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

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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,…

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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…

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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