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Heritage Foundation… Ben
Carson: ‘We’re Being Manipulated’ by Those ‘Trying to Divide Us’,
By Alissa Tabirian - April 18, 2014 - Dr. Ben Carson slammed the
culture of political correctness and partisan labels at a WPEC-TV town
hall panel held Thursday at the station’s studio in West Palm Beach,
Florida, arguing that it has stifled free expression in America—namely
religious freedom. “We’re being manipulated. We’re being played by
those people who want to divide, conquer, and control,” Carson said,
alluding to the labels attached to those who disagree with their
liberal counterparts...
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Redstate… Why
Primaries Matter, By: Erick Erickson
April 28th, 2014 - Cathy McMorris Rodgers, who Republicans chose to
respond to President Obama’s State of the Union address this year, says
Republicans are giving up on Obamacare. They’re going to start
tinkering with it instead, thereby setting the stage for it staying
around. Once the GOP fixes all the objectionable parts, there’ll be no
reason to scrap it, but there’ll also be no funding mechanisms. All the
objectionable parts...
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Heritage Foundation… Meet
the Stanford Senior Who Stood Up for
Marriage Against Intolerance
by Caitlin Burke - April 22, 2014 - Despite attempts to silence her and
like-minded friends, Stanford University senior Judy Romea refused to
back down. Romea, president of a campus group, had hoped to create a
civil atmosphere during an all-day conference at Stanford that she
helped organize to discuss “marriage, family, and sexual
integrity.” Then the school’s Student Graduate Council
defunded
the event and slapped her group, the Stanford Anscombe Society, with a
hefty “security” fee in an attempt to...
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Heritage Foundation… Why
Your Boss Probably Isn't Speaking at
This Conference, by Amy Payne
April 24, 2014 - American companies like Boeing, General Electric,
Caterpillar, and John Deere are in the club. What about your company?
These are just a few of the firms you might have heard of that benefit
from the Export-Import Bank. It’s a government program that loans money
to foreign governments and companies to buy stuff from American
companies. And when the U.S. government is loaning money, you know
where it’s coming from...
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Human
Events… Expert's
take: Land seizure and the
Constitution, By: Teresa
Mull
4/24/2014 - A number of complexities surround the government vs. Cliven
Bundy standoff case in Nevada. Some say the feds acted legally, others
that they are infringing upon private property and Constitutional
rights. Either way, the situation stimulated a national discussion:
What are the limits of the federal government and its agencies? Byron
Schlomach, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Economic Prosperity at the
Goldwater Institute, sets us straight: In reference to the Bundy case
and the...
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NetRightDaily… Big
Green’s environmental impacts earth day,
By Rick Manning
The environmental orgy known as Earth Day has come and gone. Disney
opened their annual Earth Day movie homage, Pinterest made available a
slew of Earth Day activities for kids, and public and private schools
have had their requisite ceremonies. In all the celebration, the one
thing that is seemingly never asked is whether or not environmentalist
policies by the government are actually helping the environment? Wind
energy is just one example. The United States government has
provided...
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Townhall… Memo
to: Republican Candidates, Answer War
on Women, Mona Charen
Apr 22, 2014 - Just because your opponent is hurling baseless or even
ridiculous charges does not mean that you are free to disregard them.
You may think it's absurd to argue that you are engaged in a "war on
women." But contempt for the accusation is not enough. Some strategists
suggest (they have for years) the key for Republican candidates is to
downplay social issues in favor of economic arguments...
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Heritage Foundation… Five
Ways Obama's Foreign Policies Have
Failed, by James Carafano
April 12, 2014 - On a Moscow train platform, two men smoke and swap
rumors in the frozen evening air. “I hear they’ve raised the Russian
flag in Donetsk?” one says. “I hear Crimea, too.” So reports freelance
journalist Noah Sneider in Slate. As Russian troops hoisted their flag
over Crimea, President Obama’s highly touted “reset” diplomacy crashed
and burned. The Russian reset was to have been the crown jewel of Mr.
Obama’s statecraft, the start of a new era in which Washington and
Moscow...
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Heritage Foundation… What's
Actually Good for the Environment
May Surprise You, Amy Payne
April 22, 2014 - Good news for Earth Day: We can boost energy
production and economic growth without harming the environment! Thanks
to years of empty promises from the Left, politicians in Congress and
the White House have installed all sorts of harmful policies that block
energy production, jobs, and economic growth. But those policies have
shown themselves to be counterproductive—they don’t deliver the
benefits liberals promised, and they...
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Heritage Foundation… GOP
Governors Hit Obama Administration on
Medicare Advantage Rates,
Marguerite Bowling - April 16, 2014 - Three Republican governors
yesterday blasted President Barack Obama over changes to next year’s
Medicare Advantage rates, writing in a letter that the Obama
administration’s recent rate announcement was “little more than
political theater.” While the administration says Medicare Advantage
plans will get a slight pay bump next year, Govs. Rick Perry (Texas),
Rick Scott (Fla.), and Bobby Jindal (La.) charge that insurance
analysts still anticipate plan rates to...
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Redstate… Race
War to Victory, By Erick
Erickson
April 22nd, 2014 - The Democrats do not have an agenda to run on in
2014. And contrary to the prognostications of the left, no doubt
consoling themselves, Obamacare is not going to sink the GOP. In fact,
the Republican Party, like the Democrats in 2006 and the GOP in 2010,
can run as the party of “NO”. Most Americans are tired of Barack Obama,
they are tired of the Democrats’ controlling the levers of government...
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| Heritage
Foundation… Pushback
Continues: States Grow
Increasingly Wary of Common Core,
by Brittany Corona - April 16, 2014 - Common Core is on the ropes. More
and more states are pulling back from the national standards as the
2014–15 school year implementation deadline looms near. In Louisiana,
Governor Bobby Jindal (R)—formerly a Common Core supporter—is now
encouraging the legislature to remove the state from the Common Core
aligned Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for Colleges and
Careers (PARCC) test. And if they don’t act, he will. Jindal’s new
stance comes after...
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Townhall…
What's
Wrong with Victims' Rights?
Steve Chapman
Apr 20, 2014 - Criminals are generally despised, and cops are not
universally beloved. But one participant in the criminal justice system
has no enemies: victims of crime. They're the Sara Lee of American
politics. Everybody doesn't like someone, but nobody doesn't like
victims. The movement to protect this group has achieved one success
after another. Every state has laws specifying the rights of victims,
and 33 have constitutional provisions as well. In...
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Heritage Foundation… Minimum
Wage Hikes Banned in Oklahoma Cities,
Alissa Tabirian
April 16, 2014 - Republican Governor Mary Fallin signed a bill into law
Monday banning minimum wage and employee benefit increases in Oklahoma
cities. The bill declares “state preemption authority,” stipulating
that “no municipality or other political subdivision of this state
shall establish a mandatory minimum number of vacation or sick leave
days, whether paid or unpaid, or a minimum wage rate which an employer
would be required to pay or grant employees.” The legislation passed...
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Heritage Foundation… A
Nation That Is 'Boston Strong',
Amy Payne
April 16, 2014 - After the bombing shattered the Boston Marathon last
year, hundreds of runners left their shoes behind in a spontaneous
memorial. Many wrote messages on them. Those are now part of an exhibit
at the Boston Public Library—but thousands of people added pairs of
their own running shoes to an outdoor memorial in addition to cards and
flowers over the past few days. Boston was a tragic...
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Townhall… New
Dem Strategy: Stop Running From
Obamacare, by Daniel Doherty
Apr 17, 2014 - Can Obamacare be fixed? Vulnerable Democrats are pot
committed to this idea. They say most Americans do not want to repeal
Obamacare and therefore the only way to make it work is to reform it.
They accuse Republicans of not having a viable alternative and wasting
billions of dollars on failed efforts to defund it. As a consequence,
some Democrats are urging the party to stand firm on this issue, and to
stop running way from a law many of them voted for...
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A Senior Golden Moment,
From a
CNO reader
Several days ago as I left a meeting at a hotel; I desperately gave
myself a personal TSA pat down. I was looking for my keys. They were
not in my pockets. A quick search in the meeting room revealed nothing.
Suddenly I realized I must have left them in the car. Frantically, I
headed for the parking lot. My husband has scolded me many times for
leaving the keys in the ignition. My theory is the ignition is the best
place not to lose them. His theory is...
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Legal
Insurrection… Voter
fraud: is it “significant”?
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - The left likes to argue that since there’s no
significant amount of voter fraud there’s no need for voter ID laws,
and that those who support them are inherently racist. But wouldn’t
even one case of voter fraud be an abomination that should offend all
liberty-loving people of both parties and all races? And aren’t loose
voting regulations a temptation for an increase in the amount of fraud?
Voter ID would appear to be a reasonable way to deal with the
phenomenon, for all the...
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Heritage Foundation… What
No One Wants to Admit About Social
Security Taxes, Amy Payne
April 14, 2014 - It’s a bummer when you see how much income tax comes
out of your paycheck. But when you see that Social Security line item,
do you think, “At least that’s going to pay for my retirement”? It’s
not. The tax money you’re paying into Social Security today is going to
fund today’s retirees. Who will pay for your benefits? The next
generation of workers. And the payout gets worse with each generation...
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Redstate…
The
Rich Man and Lazarus’s Big Gulp,
By Erick Erickson
April 15th, 2014 - It is always sad when you realize someone is on the
road to hell. There is a sense of foreboding in it. For Christians, we
should be fearfully in prayer for others — even our enemies as the Lord
tells us. There is no better time than Holy Week to be reminded of
that. A great case in point is Mayor Mike Bloomberg. He is in need of a
lot of prayer — prayer that he not wind up in that awful place. We have
all known that for a while. With all his billions, Bloomberg not only
has his...
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Townhall Finance… Dirty
Harry Got Richer in 2008...and You
Didn't, by John Ransom
Apr 14, 2014 - Congress has inflicted frightful punishments on its
members--now you know that. When they tried Mr. Fairoaks, and a cloud
of witnesses proved him to be--well, you know what they proved him to
be--and his own testimony and his own confessions gave him the same
character, what did Congress do then?....Congress intimated plainly
enough, that they considered him almost a stain upon their body; and
without waiting ten days, hardly...
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Sovereign
Man
April 14, 2014 - Buenos Aires, Argentina - Two bright white eyes looked
at me inquisitively through the small hatch in the nondescript metal
door. I quickly glanced around the dark, empty streets of the Palermo
district in Buenos Aires and whispered the password. The door clanked
open, revealing a small antechamber and a phone booth. I picked up the
receiver and punched in a 4-digit code, and a second door opened. Now I
could begin to see the interior of “Frank’s”. It was lit with elaborate...
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Heritage Foundation… 3
Things You Should Know About the Paycheck
Fairness Act,
Romina Boccia - April 9, 2014 - The Senate is set to vote on the
so-called Paycheck Fairness Act today. Here are three things you should
know about the bill: 1. It Could Hurt Women’s Employment Prospects.
What those who support the act don’t tell you is how it would burden
employers with additional liability and regulations. Such increased
regulation, in turn, could reduce the number of jobs available for...
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Townhall…
A
Republican
Vision
for Health Reform, by John C. Goodman
Apr 12, 2014 - What is most missing from the Republicans is not so much
the lack of an alternative to ObamaCare. It is the lack of a clear
vision. Even if you can understand what their various proposals (and
friends and close allies often cannot), it is almost never clear why
they want to implement them. Here is the sad truth: Even though the
Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) is a Rube Goldberg contraption that no
one can explain and even though its rollout has been a complete
disaster and even though the...
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Two Ways to Hurt Women in the
Workplace,
Amy Payne
April 8, 2014 - Today is “Equal Pay Day” for those who believe that The
Man is keeping women down. Convincing people that injustice is taking
place is a great way to push your policy agenda—and that’s where “Equal
Pay Day” comes from. It’s the left’s claim that women in America are
paid only about 77 cents on the dollar compared to men. But as Foundry
Senior Contributor Genevieve Wood has explained, that talking point
comes from...
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Red
Flag… Sen.
Harry Reid Behind
BLM Land Grab of Bundy Ranch...
April 11, 2014 - (by Kit Daniels, Infowars.com) -- The Bureau of Land
Management, whose Director was Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) former senior
adviser, has purged documents from its web site stating that the agency
wants Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s cattle off of the land his family
has worked for over 140 years in order to make way for solar panel
power stations. Deleted from BLM.gov but reposted for posterity by the
Free Republic, the BLM document entitled “Cattle Trespass Impacts”
directly...
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Redstate…
Illegal
Immigration,
Misplaced Compassion, and Healthcare Reform,
By: Daniel
Horowitz
April 8th, 2014 - When listening to open borders agitators like former
Florida governor Jeb Bush, one would come away with the impression that
we owe it to the world to accept anyone who comes here illegally and
pay for their living expenses. They speak of lofty ideals
loosely
connected to love and compassion, but they never consider the lack of
love and compassion that our open borders policy imposes on the
American consumer and taxpayer. There is no better example
than
the bankrupting...
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Washington
Free Beacon… State
Department Misplaced $6B Under Hillary Clinton,
By Adam
Kredo
IG report reveals incomplete, lost contract files worth $6B - April 4,
2014 - The State Department misplaced and lost some $6 billion due to
the improper filing of contracts during the past six years, mainly
during the tenure of former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton,
according to a newly released Inspector General report. The $6 billion
in unaccounted funds poses a “significant financial risk and
demonstrates a lack of internal control over the Department’s contract
actions,” according to the report...
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Forbes… Obamacare
Shows America
Suffers From A President Dangerously Disconnected From Reality,
By Peter Ferrara - The population of the U.S. is 314 million. On the
day Obamacare was passed, the estimate of the uninsured was 60 million.
So in this context, the supposed 7 million Americans signed up for
insurance on the Obamacare Exchanges, even if that is a valid number,
and all of those have actually started paying premiums, both of which
are highly dubious, does not mean any significant success...
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The
Daily Caller… Oklahoma
poised to
become second state to repeal Common Core
04/02/2014 - Many of the 46 states that adopted all or part of the
Common Core Standards Initiative with little to no democratic input
from voters (and parents) are now reconsidering the decisions. Oklahoma
is poised to become the second state to repeal Common Core, reports
Oklahoma City NBC affiliate KFOR. House Bill 3399 would pave for the
way for Oklahoma residents to agree upon their own math and English
standards. It would also bar prohibit the federal government from
imposing any curriculum...
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535
Artichokes, Susan Olling, Darke County Native
Hi again, My heart bleeds. They’ve frozen federal employees
pay
for a few years, after essentially declaring war on federal
employees. Why should these 535 be
special? I would
love to hear the Republicans take on this. Will Mr. Boehner,
or
any of the others, provide a rebuttal to this Democrat’s assertions?
These characters don’t need two houses. The comments in the “What do
you think?” box are telling, particularly the comment about...
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Townhall…
Fort
Hood,
Gun-Free
Zones and ‘Progressive’ Insanity, Matt Barber
Apr 07, 2014 - They say that lightning never strikes twice in the same
place. Not true. It does if you stand high atop a cliff’s edge waving a
lightning rod above your head during a thunderstorm. In fact, in the
unlikely event you survive the first strike, it’ll keep right on
striking until you climb down. So-called “gun-free zones” are lightning
rods for mass murder. It’s time we climbed down from the cliff’s edge.
America mourns yet another needless and preventable mass shooting at
Fort Hood, Texas. When...
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Heritage
Foundation… Carter:
‘Inappropriate’ for U.S. to Block
Member of Terrorist Group from Entering Country,
Karen Jeffers - April 4, 2014 - Former President Jimmy Carter yesterday
said he is supportive of letting a known member of a terrorist group,
Hamid Aboutalebi, into the United States as Iran’s newest ambassador to
the United Nations. Aboutalebi was a member of the Muslim student group
who held 52 Americans hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran for more
than a year beginning in...
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| Freedom
Outpost… Fort
Hood Job Posting:
“Seeking Individuals To Act As Role Players… In A Mass Casualty
Exercise”
– by Mac Slavo - April 4, 2014 - Speculation as to the circumstances
surrounding the most recent mass shooting at Fort Hood abounds. A
recent posting on Craigslist is fueling the fire even more, with some
suggesting that it is evidence of yet another government facilitated
false flag operation. According to a March 12, 2014 snapshot of a
listing on the popular classifieds web site, the government was looking
for individuals to act as role ...
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Heritage
Foundation… This
CEO Made a Political Donation, Then
Lost His Job Because Liberals Didn't Like It,
By Rob Bluey - April 4, 2014 - The chief executive of Mozilla resigned
yesterday amid protests over his $1,000 donation in support of
California’s Proposition 8, which defined marriage as the union of a
man and a woman. Brendan Eich’s 2008 donation was first revealed two
years ago while he was serving in a senior role at Mozilla. But it was
after his appointment as CEO last month that half of Mozilla’s board
quit and...
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Fox
News… Did
Michigan just trigger
'constitutional convention'? Bid gains steam
By Barnini Chakraborty - Published April 02, 2014 - WASHINGTON
–
Momentum is building behind what would be an unprecedented effort to
amend the U.S. Constitution, through a little-known provision that
gives states rather than Congress the power to initiate changes. At
issue is what's known as a "constitutional convention," a scenario
tucked into Article V of the U.S. Constitution. At its core, Article V
provides two ways for amendments to be proposed. The first – which has
been...
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An
eagle kiss… From a CNO
Reader
This is the kind of story you need when it seems like the world is
spiraling out of control. Not many people get a picture of this proud
bird snuggled up next to them! Freedom and Jeff - Freedom and I have
been together 11 years this summer. She came in as a baby in
1998
with two broken wings. Her left wing doesn't open all the way even
after surgery, it was broken in 4 places. She's my baby. When...
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Eagle
Rising… Top
Democrat Calls
Obama a Delusional Liar, By Onan Coca
3 April 2014 - Democrat Bob Kerrey went off on President Obama in an
interview with Britain’s Daily Mail. He summed up his view of the Obama
Presidency with one simple sentence, “Mr. President… you won this
election because you sucked less than Romney.” We grabbed some of
Kerrey’s greatest hits from the interview, but you should give the
whole thing a read. Bob Kerrey says Obama is a liar. Obama, he said
Wednesday in his Manhattan office, knew full well he was lying when he...
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The
New American… Is
Alaska's Jury
Nullification Bill in Line With Founders' View?
Written by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. - Saturday, 29 March 2014 12:00 -
The Alaska State House of Representatives is considering a bill that
would allow jurors in the Last Frontier “not to apply the law to the
defendant” in select criminal cases. House Bill 315 would officially
legalize jury nullification of verdicts in cases where jurors believe
the “law is unjustly applied to the defendant.” One paragraph of the
bill grants defendants the “right to inform the jury of the jury's
power to judge the just application...
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Heritage Foundation… Unions
Getting Creative in Election-Year Struggle,
Amy Payne
April 2, 2014 - If it seems like unions are making a fuss lately, it’s
because they are. It’s an election year, and they need money. Just one
in 15 private-sector workers is a union member—in 2013, union
membership was at its lowest rate since 1916. That might explain why
they’re grasping for new members in stunts like unionizing college
athletes, especially as their influence in the workplace is being
challenged...
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Townhall…
NSA
Surveillance and the Dangers of Power, Steve
Chapman
Mar 30, 2014 - Every so often, we get proof that Barack Obama, when
confronted with a grievous abuse of government power by his
administration, will do the right thing. Sometimes, I mean. When he
can't get away with it anymore, that is. Just as soon as he's tried
everything else. That's the case with his domestic phone records
collection, which the president finally said he wants to put under
tighter control than before. At moments like this, believe it...
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Townhall… The Government We Deserve,
by
Derek Hunter
Mar 30, 2014 - As the media ignores the delays and waivers President
Obama and his magic pen have imposed upon the country for this settled
law called Obamacare, there are more troubles brewing in the fight to
restore liberty. For all the enthusiasm Tea Party members bring to the
political world, their biggest opponent may not be progressives on the
ballot but the very groups who claim to be their champions. You’d think
with this current crop of gun smuggling, kiddie-porn loving, bribe
taking, family...
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Heritage Foundation… Where
You
Can Buy Health Insurance After Today, Amy Payne
March 31, 2014 - Today is kinda-sorta the deadline to sign up for
Obamacare, though if you want to say you’re “in line” for coverage, the
administration is okay with that. (If your state is running its own
Obamacare exchange, it may be keeping its deadline firm, so check with
your state.) When we wrote about the Obamacare deadline and penalty
recently, a reader brought up a great question: Can...
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Townhall Finance… Bureaucracy, Boondoggles, and Bad
Behavior,
by Chris Edwards
Mar 30, 2014 - In catching up on news about the federal government
today, I noticed that articles fit into three categories: bureaucracy,
boondoggles, and bad behavior. On any given day, it seems, the
Washington Post and other outlets have new tales of BB&BB to
report. No wonder most Americans want to cut federal spending. Let’s
look at the latest on BB&BB: Regarding bureaucracy, you can’t
find
a better illustration that David Fahrenthold’s article in the
Washington Post last Sunda...
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