Needed: Watchdogs over waste, misguided payments
Most workers would be fired if they made a $1 million mistake. But our government admits to wasting at least $100 billion a year, yet nobody gets canned.
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Ernest Istook
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In war on pollution, EPA can’t admit we’re winning
Why does the Left keep expanding a war that America has already won?
EPA ‘showers’ the people with unwanted regulations
If you like your shower, you probably can’t keep it once the Obama administration bureaucrats are done.
Circus elephants chased out of towns by sexist PETA activism
Ringling Brothers is dropping elephants from its circus after 144 years because PETA activists got key cities to enact local laws making it impossible for handlers to control the elephants.
True to his word, Obama’s rules mean skyrocketing electric bills
American households are suffering from a little-reported part of President Obama’s agenda: skyrocketing electricity costs.
Redistributing your wealth, Obama cements his power
Let’s get this out in the open. President Obama’s agenda is to redistribute wealth, which enhances his own power. He can advance that agenda without Congress, instead acting exclusively through the executive branch. This is possible only because for decades Congress has given away power to bureaucrats.
Media scoffed, but FBI confirms ISIS has its soldiers in America
National media ridiculed earlier reports because they didn’t want to offend any Muslims. But now the FBI confirms that ISIS has recruited and trained people who are here in America.
Fighting the Blob: Another Obama agency wants to police the Internet
This is about The Blob and how we lose our right of free speech.
Obama’s amnesty hotline pressures Border Patrol to obey him instead of the law
Obama must be obeyed above all else. The new amnesty hotline for illegal immigrants fits his plan to pressure federal agents to be loyal to Obama’s edicts instead of to the Constitution.
NBC’s Brian Williams isn’t alone; Honesty is now the lost policy
Has America become too accepting of media and politicans who lie? Is that why NBC’s Brian Williams treated his deceit as no big deal?
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Obama's success is people's distress: Electric bills are skyrocketing
American households are suffering from a little-reported part of President Obama’s agenda — skyrocketing electricity costs.
Millions spent illegally on Obama amnesty plan; so who is going to prison?
Some bureaucrats could end up in prison for implementing President Obama's amnesty plan for illegal aliens. Even if they don't violate the brand-new court injunction, they are accountable under a special federal statute.
Obama wants to control America even after he's out of office
President Obama says he's pushing his agenda "harder than ever" during his final two years in office, because he's trying to set America's course for the next ten years.
Super Bowl is a too-rare moment that unites America
Political divisions, racial divisions and wealth divisions that split the country apart fade away for one brief day as America unites to enjoy the Super Bowl.
California protects the chickens, Al Gore targets the humans
Which comes first? The chicken or the consumer?
Al Gore's $90 trillion dream could put us back on horses
One of the presentations to the global elite in Davos is a $90 trillion plan to rebuild every city in the world without roads for autos. They're banned. Yes, Al Gore is involved.
