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Obama Justice Department Protects Racist, Anti-Semitic Hate Group and Anti-White Voting Rights Violators

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/02/2009

Members of the New Black Panther Party, one of whom was an Obama campaign poll watcher and local democratic official, used nightsticks and racial…

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Obama Panders to the UAW: $30 Billion More for Wasteful Auto Bailout

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/02/2009

The federal government is giving another $30 billion in taxpayer money to General Motors to allow it to operate without having to cut…

Energy and Environment

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Corporate Welfare on a Vast Scale: Obama’s Cap-and-Trade Scam Threatens Economy

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/01/2009

One of Obama’s own advisers admits that the cap-and-trade energy-rationing scheme backed by the “Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats” would “have a trivially small…

Energy and Environment

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Stimulus Package Shrinks Economy, Destroys Private Sector Jobs

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/31/2009

Most of the $800 billion stimulus package has yet to be spent, but it’s already harming the economy, both by triggering trade wars that have…

Consumer Freedom

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Wasteful Obama Auto Bailouts Disturb Even Liberal Washington Post

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/30/2009

Even the liberal Washington Post, which endorsed Obama and has not backed a Republican for president since 1952, is getting fed up with the…

Energy and Environment

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Obama Justice Department Winks at Racist Voter Intimidation

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/29/2009

Black Panthers in Philadelphia used nightsticks and racial epithets to drive white voters away from a polling place. “Career lawyers pursued the case for…

Law and Litigation

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More Bailouts at Taxpayer Expense

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/27/2009

Mortgage lenders are getting even bigger taxpayer subsidies to write off mortgage loans for potentially delinquent borrowers, reports today’s Washington Examiner. “President Barack Obama…

Law and Litigation

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Divorce Courts Harass Our Troops and Small Businesses

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/25/2009

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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Chrysler Confronts Grim Future, Despite Billions in Taxpayer Subsidies

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/22/2009

The federal government poured billions of dollars into Chrysler, which then went bankrupt and merged with Fiat. But Chrysler may never revive, thanks to absurdly…

Energy and Environment

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Class Warfare Against the Financially Responsible

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/21/2009

Earlier, the Obama Administration pushed through $250 billion in mortgage bailouts, to bail out even some high-income borrowers with normal mortgage payments, and…

Subsidies and Bailouts

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Retirees, Taxpayers Ripped Off to Subsidize UAW

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/21/2009

Obama accused critics of his decision to give control of Chrysler to the United Auto Workers Union of being “speculators.” But it turns out…

Labor and Employment

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Wasteful Stimulus Package Fails Even In Short Term

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/19/2009

1.2 million Americans have lost their jobs since the $800 billion stimulus package was signed into law. The Congressional Budget Office predicted it would…

Labor and Employment

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Government Bullies Retirees, Banks, Rips Off Taxpayers

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/15/2009

The Obama Administration is now seeking to give the United Auto Workers Union a big chunk of General Motors, at the expense of taxpayers…

Consumer Freedom

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Stimulus Ignites Job-Killing Trade War With Canada

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/15/2009

The $800 billion stimulus package pushed through by Obama has ignited a trade war with Canada, reports the Washington Post. In response to vague…

Energy and Environment

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Adviser Admits Obama’s Tax Increases May Kill Economic Recovery

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/14/2009

Harvard economist Martin Feldstein, warns that “the barrage of tax increases proposed in President Barack Obama’s budget could . . . kill any chance of…

Consumer Freedom

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Law Professors Urge Supreme Court to Review Challenge to Powerful Agency, in Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/13/2009

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will weigh whether to decide what a federal judge called the “the most important separation-of-powers case regarding the President’s appointment…

Consumer Freedom

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Massive Tax Increase and Marriage Penalty from Obama

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/12/2009

Obama's proposed tax increases create a massive financial penalty for married couples, by subjecting them to much higher income taxes than if they had chosen…

Energy and Environment

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Deficit Skyrockets to $1.8 Trillion

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/11/2009

The White House predicts the budget deficit will top $1.8 trillion, four times 2008’s record. Obama has sought to blame the deficit on Bush.

Labor and Employment

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Taxing Away American Jobs

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/11/2009

Obama’s plan to raise taxes on the foreign operations of U.S. businesses may destroy management and professional jobs in the U.S., will put American business…

Labor and Employment

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Purpose of Hate-Crimes Bill Is To Promote Double Jeopardy and Shred Civil Liberties

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/09/2009

On April 29, the House voted 249-to-175 to pass the federal hate crimes bill, which the bill’s supporters explicitly want to use to prosecute…

Consumer Freedom

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“Gangster government gave Chrysler to the UAW”

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/08/2009

So reads the Washington Examiner’s editorial today about how Obama effectively gave ownership of Chrysler to the United Auto Workers Union (which spent…

Labor and Employment

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Obama Breaks Yet Another Promise

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/08/2009

Obama promised to end the military’s ban on gays, but his Administration has not done so. In fact, it recently kicked out a West Point…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Destabilizing Afghanistan: the Quagmire Expands

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/05/2009

The anti-American Taliban extremists are resurgent not only in Afghanistan, where they once sheltered Osama Bin Laden, but also in neighboring Pakistan (which has nuclear…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Bye Bye, Justice Souter

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/01/2009

Liberal Supreme Court Justice David Souter is retiring. On social issues, this makes little difference: whoever replaces him will satisfy liberal litmus tests,…

Law and Litigation

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Censoring Critical Blogs as “Harassment” Would Violate the First Amendment

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/30/2009

Under a recently-introduced bill, H.R. 1966, bloggers would face up to two years in prison if they “harass” public figures by criticizing them in…

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Civil Rights Commission Members Urge “NO” Vote on Federal Hate Crimes Bill

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/29/2009

Four members of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission urged Congress not to pass the federal hate crimes bill (LLEHCPA) . . . pointing out that…

Consumer Freedom

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Specter Switches Parties, Cementing Liberals’ Filibuster-Proof Control of Senate

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/28/2009

Contradicting earlier claims, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter has switched to the Democratic Party, cementing the liberals' filibuster-proof majority on most issues in the Senate.

Subsidies and Bailouts

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Strange Priorities: Government Fights “Indecency,” But Not Shoplifting

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/28/2009

The prosecutor in Contra Costa County, California won’t prosecute shoplifters anymore, citing budget cuts. It’s open season on retailers in that large suburban…

Consumer Freedom

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Federal Hate Crimes Bill Will Erode Civil Liberties and Undermine Constitutional Safeguards Against Double Jeopardy

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/26/2009

On April 23, the House Judiciary Committee voted 15-to-12 to approve a dramatic expansion of the federal hate-crimes law. The bill, H.R. 1913, would…

Law and Litigation

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Enron-like Fraud by Government in Bailouts

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 04/24/2009

The federal government is perpetrating Enron-style fraud against investors in its bailouts of Merrill Lynch and Freddie Mac. The Treasury Secretary and Chairman of…

Consumer Freedom

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