Mar 27, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from BIG GOVERNMENT: The U.S. government could save taxpayers up to $8 billion by selling off the estimated 55,000 to 77,000 vacant properties it owns or leases. At a time when the White House says it cannot find the $18,000 a week it needs to fund tours, unloading unused properties to save taxpayers billions might seem ...
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Mar 26, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE HILL: President Obama on Tuesday signed the continuing resolution that will keep the government funded through the end of the fiscal year, averting a government shutdown. The six-month stopgap measure will keep government agencies funded through Sept. 30, maintaining funding at $984 billion. The bill cleared the House last Thursday in a 318-109 vote. The ...
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Mar 26, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS: - The Congressional Budget Office is now projecting that the U.S. economy will never achieve full employment during the eight years Barack Obama serves as president. That would make Obama the only American president during the post-World War II era who never presided over a year in which the U.S. economy offered ...
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Mar 26, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery" — Calvin Coolidge
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Mar 26, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WATCH DOG: Thanks to your generous support, the New York City-based People’s Rights Fund has been able publicize the great work of Karl Marx and dictators Kim Jong-Il, Hugo Chavez and Saddam Hussein. Don’t remember writing that check? If you paid federal taxes after 1997, some of your money went to Tides, a San Francisco-based clearinghouse ...
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Mar 25, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS: – Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) demanded the end of sequestration, alleging it would lead to a “work until you die” society. "It will cause pain,” Grayson said Thursday after delivering a petition to House Speaker John Boehner’s office. “It will cause economic dislocation and then, the wailing will begin. The wailing will begin. Grayson ...
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Mar 25, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from BIG GOVERNMENT: Sasha and Malia Obama are quietly vacationing at the Atlantis resort on Paradise Island in the Bahamas, Breitbart News has learned. A source tipped Breitbart News off to the First Daughters’ spring vacation, which was not publicly announced or reported. Breitbart subsequently confirmed President Barack Obama’s daughters’ trip with other sources. Both the ...
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Mar 23, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNBC: — After a grueling, all-night debate that ended close to 5 a.m., the Senate on Saturday adopted its first budget in four years, a $3.7 trillion blueprint for 2014 that would fast-track passage of tax increases, trim spending gingerly and leave the government still deeply in the debt a decade from now. The 50-49 ...
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Mar 22, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE TELEGRAPH: China is on track to overtake America as the world's biggest economy in 2016 as its growth accelerates, according to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. China's economy expanded last year at 7.8pc - its slowest pace in more than a decade - and recent data has ...
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Mar 22, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Even as President Obama highlights impending cuts to national parks because of the sequester, he plans to use his power as president to designate five new national monuments Monday, according to an administration official. The new monuments will be: the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in New Mexico; the San Juan Islands ...
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Mar 22, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AL'S JOURNAL: Last weekend, the Financial Times published a must-read editorial on the need for a national carbon tax: "Taxes are always a regrettable necessity, but some are less regrettable than others. A tax that strengthens energy security and cuts pollution, while minimising the damage done to employment and investment, is one of the least ...
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Mar 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE HILL: The House approved Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's 2014 budget plan on Thursday in a 221-207 vote. Only 10 Republicans voted against the Ryan budget, highlighting GOP unity around the blueprint. The vote is a victory for House Republicans, who have a narrower majority this year and had to work harder to ...
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Mar 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS: - The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $384,949 grant to Yale University for a study on “Sexual Conflict, Social Behavior and the Evolution of Waterfowl Genitalia”, according to the recovery.gov website. The grant description says,“The project examines how reproductive morphology covaries with season, age, and social environment in a diverse sample ...
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Mar 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE HILL: The House on Wednesday rejected the Senate Democratic budget in a 154-261 vote, with 35 Democrats voting against the blueprint from their upper chamber colleagues. The Senate Democratic budget was one of three budgets cast aside in a series of votes Wednesday after a debate in which Republicans excoriated President Obama for ...
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Mar 19, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WEEKLY STANDARD: Acting Labor Secretary Seth D. Harris addressed the Annual Legislative Conference of the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) on Monday. As part of a scathing attack on attempts to reform public employee labor unions, Harris told a joke that he said was “making the rounds a few years ago”: ...
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Mar 18, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER: As Republicans and Democrats try to find middle ground between the budgets that each side has proposed, the most conservative members of the House are throwing another budget into the mix, one that would balance the budget in four years. The Republican Study Committee’s “Back to Basics” budget proposes some of the ...
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Mar 18, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE HILL: A Republican congressman on Monday will attempt to set up a vote on President Obama’s 2014 budget. A Republican congressman wants to force a vote on President Obama's 2014 budget — even though it's a blank page. Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.) will attempt to stage the vote as an amendment to House Budget Committee ...
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Mar 18, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
She can put one together all by herself!
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