Republican Senators Who Voted Againt $1.1 Trillion Budget
Posted on December 15, 2014
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Continue reading → Obama Bails Out Boehner: Monster Spending Bill Passes House
Posted on December 12, 2014
President Barack Obama bailed out House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday night. After the House embarrassed Boehner by almost killing his 1,774-page $1.1 trillion cromnibus bill on a purely procedural vote earlier in the day, House Democrats pitched in to provide the votes to pass it. “My job tonight is to say thank you and […]
Continue reading →Boondoggle on Mars Produces Zilch and Hype
Written by Gary North on December 10, 2014
American taxpayers are forced to spend billions of dollars on boondoggles sent to Mars because evolutionists figure that if they can just find signs of life on Mars, they can forever silence Christians and orthodox Jews, who annoy them. “Special creation? Not hardly!” This is why every report on Mars comes with an obligatory statement […]
Continue reading →Your Share: FedGov Spends $29,000 a Year Per Household
Posted on December 9, 2014
Did you know that the National Institutes of Health spent $374,000 to find out if a puppet show would convince preschoolers to eat more vegetables? Or that the Department of Agriculture gave $50,000 to a business that packs and sells alpaca manure? Your tax dollars paid for it–and much more. In 2014, federal spending per […]
Continue reading →The $5 Million Retired Cop
Written by Gary North on November 21, 2014
So, you think America’s local governments are not going to go bankrupt. Think again. When Bobby Deal retired from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office last month, he did so with the promise of a nest egg worth at least $4.9 million, a sum he’ll be paid over the next 25 years. Deal now earns nearly 50 […]
Continue reading →Reagan’s Gift: Free Medical Care for Illegal Aliens
Written by Gary North on November 19, 2014
Ronald Reagan signed into law the bill that requires local hospitals to provide free emergency medical services to illegal aliens. This was in 1986: the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA). Here is a summary. The law was designed to provide patients with access to emergency medical care and to prevent hospitals from […]
Continue reading →IRS Thumbs Its Nose at Congress, Which Is Impotent
Written by Gary North on September 18, 2014
Congress is impotent. The IRS is revealing this as never before. It is saying, loud and clear, that Congress cannot do anything to Lois Lerner or any other IRS employee. Sorry; no emails. They went bye-bye into cyberspace. There are no digits. There is no smoking gun. But what about the NSA? Doesn’t the NSA […]
Continue reading →No Free Federal Lunch Money ==> No Nanny Menus
Written by Gary North on August 11, 2014
It is happening all over the country. Public schools are pulling out of the federal lunch program. They are walking away from the subsidies. Why? Simple: the kids will not eat the federal lunches. They toss out the food. To get the subsidies, the districts must adopt the federal lunch menus. The kids then revolt. […]
Continue reading →Money Up a Rat Hole: The “Space Fence” Boondoggle
Written by Gary North on May 9, 2014
Gravity was a popular movie. It was lots of fun, except for one thing: it’s going to happen. Statistically, it’s going to happen. The governments of the world have known this for over 35 years. Maybe you have heard of the tragedy of the commons. It’s where a valuable asset is not owned. There is […]
Continue reading →$100K Study to Count How Many Birds Fly Into Rebuilt Minnesota Bridge
Posted on April 23, 2014
At the behest of the National Park Service (NPS), the Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) is planning to spend $100,000 of federal highway funds on a study to count the number of birds that are killed flying into a rebuilt bridge over the Mississippi River. The study would “determine the effect of bridge size and […]
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