Federal Footprint Map shows Government Lands
UNITED STATES – DECEMBER 07: Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, participates in a discussion titled “Understanding the Federal Footprint: A Citizen’s Online Guide to Government Land Control,” at the...
View ArticleFeds Spent $60,000 for Play About First Gay President
The National Endowment for the Arts gave $60,000 for the production of a play about the first openly gay president of the United States who has to fight zombies in the basement, and who has a cheating...
View ArticleObamacare Coverage Is Worse than Nothing for Most
Most left-leaning health policy wonks assume everyone needs health coverage. I’ve never understood that. Insurance is a way to protect assets for people with assets to protect. Economists also...
View ArticlePuerto Rico’s Government Imposes Price Controls
When I point out that Puerto Rico got in trouble by allowing the burden of government spending to grow faster than the private economy, thus violating my Golden Rule, honest leftists will admit that’s...
View ArticleObamacare enters final stages of collapse
Obamacare has cost the nation billions of dollars and continues to be the source of administrative headaches for government. And according to polling, very few Americans believe the president’s...
View ArticleHow Republican Candidates Might Impact Federal Employees
Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio It’s...
View ArticleObamaCare ripe for fraud while government yawns
A new report alleges the Obama administration has taken a “passive” approach to identifying potential fraud in the Affordable Care Act, better known as ObamaCare. And the question remains, what will be...
View ArticleDoD not seeking refund for defective plane parts
Most people who discover an item they have purchased is broken or faulty would return the item to the retailer and expect a full refund. Not the DoD. When it comes to seeking reimbursement of taxpayer...
View ArticleDemand agencies go to the chopping block
The following is an opinion by syndicated columnist Cal Thomas. Thomas believes that the Federal government must send more agencies to the chopping block in order to correct the country’s financial...
View ArticleObama’s Transportation Budget is DOA
In a gesture that looks more like a political testament than a realistic budget proposal, the Obama Administration unveiled a $4.1 trillion plan to fund the federal government in Fiscal Year 2017. The...
View ArticleTennessee children’s food program under scrutiny
(Photo: Ximagination, Getty Images/iStockphoto) The state’s $80 million program to provide meals and snacks to children at risk for hunger is again coming under scrutiny for fraud, waste, abuse — and...
View ArticleUniversity of Washington wastes science grant
The University of Washington, a public university used federal funding for scientific research as its own personal piggy bank, spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on personalized...
View ArticleEPA: A Paragon Of Government Waste
Just when you think you’ve seen every manifestation of incompetence, corruption and dishonesty that’s possible in a government agency, the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) comes up with something...
View ArticleFCC proposes high-speed Internet for the poor
(Chris Goodney/Bloomberg) Federal regulators unveiled a final plan Tuesday that would offer low-income Americans a new discount on broadband service — a $9.25 subsidy a month — in an effort to spark...
View ArticleThe F-35: A Sinkhole of Waste
This photo shows an F-35 Lightning II jet. Lockheed Martin is making different variations of the plane for each branch of the service. (Lockheed Martin)...
View ArticleHarry Reid March Porker of the Month
WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) named Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) its March Porker of the Month for his blatant blocking of a bipartisan bill...
View ArticleThe Relationship between Welfare Spending and Poverty
The welfare state is bad news. It’s bad for taxpayers and it’s bad for recipients. It’s also bad for the economy since prosperity is in part a function of the quantity of labor that is productively...
View ArticleArmy Indoctrinated Soldiers on Dangers of ‘White Privilege’
The United States military is in the midst of the longest period of sustained combat in our nation’s history. One would think that discussions about “white privilege” would be absurd in a military...
View ArticleLankford Targets Trump’s Historic Hotel
Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images Sen. James Lankford (R-OK)targeted GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s historic hotel...
View ArticleHouse budget plan would rearrange federal research
Patrick McKay/Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) If an influential congressional budget committee has its way, the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) could...
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