Morning Bell: Serving Justice to Gosnell
Justice has been served for a few infants and one mother whose lives were taken within the filthy walls of 3801 Lancaster Avenue. Late-term abortionist… Read More
Obama Vows Support for Planned Parenthood
President Obama became the first sitting President to address Planned Parenthood this week, speaking to roughly a thousand supporters at the organization’s national conference in… Read More
Electric Cars and Crony Federalism
Competition is good—but only when it encourages a “race to the top.” That’s true in business and among the states as well. Competition can encourage… Read More
DOE Sitting on Taxpayer Dollars Due to Negative Publicity
Despite billions of dollars in unused loan authority remaining under the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office, negative publicity surrounding the loan guarantee programs… Read More
Unused Federal Buildings: No Room for Sequestration Cuts?
About 77,000 unused or underused federal buildings cost taxpayers $1.67 billion to operate and maintain in 2010 alone (latest data available), according to a Congressional… Read More
Morning Bell: Where Could We POSSIBLY Cut the Federal Budget?
If you had to cut your family’s budget, where would you cut? Would you immediately start starving your children and stop wearing shoes? Of course… Read More
Taxpayer-Funded Infrastructure Bank: The “Investment” Isn’t Worth It
Bad ideas never seem to die. But the proposal to create a national infrastructure bank to federally fund transportation and infrastructure projects with taxpayer dollars… Read More
Taxpayers Sink Deeper in Solyndra Saga: Part One
Bankrupt or not, Solyndra continues to dig deeper into taxpayers’ wallets. Over the past year, the Departments of Energy (DOE) and Justice (DOJ) have doled… Read More
Blowing More Taxpayer Money for Offshore Wind
Much of the debate over wind subsidies this past year has been over the extension of the wind production tax credit. But even if the… Read More
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Morning Bell: Stop Meeting with the U.N. on Climate Change
Two days ago, the 18th United Nations conference on climate change wrapped up. As they did at the previous 17 conferences, developing nations demanded that… Read More
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United Nations Declares Contraception Access a “Human Right”
In the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) recent State of World Population report, access to contraception is described as a “universal human right.” While the… Read More
Time to Remove the Taxpayer Trough from Wind Producers
The meal provided by the taxpayer is over. When pigs finish eating the slop that a farmer put in the trough, they’ll hang around the… Read More
Green Graveyard: 19 Taxpayer-Funded Failures
While there’s speculation over which federally supported green energy company may be the next to declare bankruptcy, plenty have already gone belly up. In one… Read More
America Doesn’t Need a Federal Department of Subsidies
Politicians too often confuse “free money” with “free markets”—that is, they consider themselves pro-business when they work deals that make some businesses happy, even though… Read More
Obamacare Spends More Than a Trillion in Taxpayer Dollars and Still Leaves 30 Million People Uninsured
On November 7, 2007, at a speech in Bettendorf, Iowa, then-candidate Obama said: Every four years politicians come before you to talk about health care…. Read More
Russian Reset Roulette: Putin Throws Obama’s Foreign Aid Under the Bus
The State Department announced yesterday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has informed the United States he will not permit any further activities by the U.S…. Read More
HHS Secretary Crosses the Line
By her own admission, U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius committed a clear violation of the Hatch Act when she traveled to… Read More
New State Dept. “Fact Sheets” Push More Government, More Spending on Foreign Aid
Recently, The Heritage Foundation reported that the State Department is making major changes to its venerable series of “Background Notes”—transforming them from useful reference materials… Read More
Morning Bell: Taxpayers’ Auto Bailout Losses Mounting
Taxpayers will lose even more on the auto bailout than previously thought, as the Treasury has just revised its estimate upward to $25 billion. This… Read More
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Morning Bell: Solyndra Revelations Show It’s Time to Close the “Bank of Washington”
“The Bank of Washington continues to help us!” bragged Solyndra CEO Chris Gronet in emails released last week. An investigation by the House Energy and… Read More
Podcast: Your Tax Dollars and Congress’ Spending Spree
Runaway government spending has been a vocal concern of the burgeoning Tea Party movement since its inception. But many average voters don’t know a lot… Read More
Outside the Beltway: Luaus in Illinois? Sure, When Pork Is What’s for Dinner!
$1,100 for Hawaiian party props and luaus? $78,066 to promote quail? $6,500 for a 4,000-gallon live bass fish tank? $10,000 for a Batman party? $353,165 to fund car racing?
Congratulations, Illinoisans, you’re funding all this and more with your hard-earned taxpayer dollars, courtesy of your state government in Springfield.
