By Jack Mirkinson (The Huffington Post) The Obama administration woke up on Tuesday to another morning of scorching criticism about the Justice Department’s decision to secretly obtain months of Associated Press phone records. The DOJ tracked the incoming and outgoing… Read More ›
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IRS targeted groups that criticized the government or educated Americans about the Constitution
By Juliet Eilperin (Washington Post) At various points over the past two years, Internal Revenue Service officials targeted nonprofit groups that criticized the government and sought to educate Americans about the U.S. Constitution, according to documents in an audit conducted… Read More ›
Poll: 61% of College-Age Students Want Government to Stay Out of Their Lives
Since I graduated from college in 2009, the economy has remained stagnant and the job market has remained weak, with no sign of improvement. Just last week, the Bureau of Labor and Statistics reported that the unemployment rate hit 7.5… Read More ›
NYTIMES: Obama ‘On Verge’ Of Backing FBI Plan To Wiretap Web Users
The Obama administration, resolving years of internal debate, is on the verge of backing a Federal Bureau of Investigation plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people who communicate using the Internet… Read More ›
DHS Seeks Millions More Rounds of Ammunition
By: Paul Joseph Watson (Infowars.com) The Department of Homeland Security has released a market survey asking companies if they are able to provide 2 million rounds of ammunition within a short time period, increasing concerns that the federal agency is… Read More ›
Obama Budget: Cut Entitlements In Exchange For Tax Increases
By: Zachary A Goldfarb (Washington Post) President Obama will propose a budget next week that embraces a risky strategy of courting Republicans for a grand bargain on the debt while angering Democratic allies with cuts to the nation’s entitlement programs…. Read More ›
U.S. taxpayers have spent $15 trillion on failed anti-poverty programs
Since President Lyndon Baines Johnson declared “war on poverty,” U.S. taxpayers have spent $15 trillion on so-called anti-poverty programs—a figure slightly less than the national debt. By: Winton Hall (Breitbart News) Sean Hannity, Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer, and… Read More ›
Immigration deal opens door to trillions in new welfare spending
Senate Budget Committee Republican staff on Thursday released a description of what they claim is a “major flaw” in the immigration reform plan being pushed by the bipartisan “Gang of Eight”–a loophole that will end up being a multi-trillion dollar… Read More ›
Top Government Official Says, ‘We’ve Been Lied To, Robbed, And Misled’
Then, when the Fed’s fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction and its balance sheet grew by $1.3 trillion in just thirteen weeks compared to $850 billion during its first ninety-four years, I became… Read More ›
Illegal Border Crossings Have Doubled Since Immigration Reform Deal Closes In
As the immigration reform Gang of Eight inside the Beltway prepares to announce a deal later this week, claiming border security will come before a path to citizenship for millions of illegals, Border Patrol agents have seen illegal border crossings… Read More ›