Sen. Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, today released the oversight report, “2008: Worst Waste of the Year.” The look back on 2008 features absurd federal spending from beltway bureaucrats and elected officials. “As we look back on federal spending for 2008, American taxpayers will laugh, and [...]
Report Highlights Worst Waste of 2008
December 12th, 2008 · 3 Comments
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Top 10 Passwords Used by Sarah Palin
September 18th, 2008 · No Comments
Like most law-abiding Americans, I’m appalled that Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail account was hacked and her family’s private information was shared with the world via the internet by the lowlifes at Gawker. At the same time, however, the incident caused me to wonder what words she might have been using as passwords. Below are the [...]
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Radio Ad Highlights Obama’s Love of Earmarks
September 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment
“Change Or More Of The Same?” is the name of a new radio spot launched today by the McCain-Palin campaign team. The spot highlights, among other things, the fact that John McCain has never sought an earmark and the fact that Sarah Palin has vetoed nearly half-a-billion dollars in wasteful spending and cut earmark requests [...]
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Web Site Exposes Earmarks for Trial Lawyers
July 28th, 2008 · No Comments
A online and media campaign exposing the vast number of liability-expanding provisions slipped into key legislation by the plaintiffs’ trial bar was launched today by the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform. The site, TrialLawyerEarmarks.com, illustrates the breadth and scope of the trial lawyer agenda through a tangle of vines overtaking the U.S. Capitol Building. [...]
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‘Earmarks, the Gateway Drug for Overspending’ (Updated)
March 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Today, this Oklahoma native was fortunate to stumble across the text of a 35-page speech delivered on the floor of the U.S. Senate March 13 by a man for whom I have the greatest respect and admiration, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.). Although that speech received little or no attention in the form of mainstream media [...]
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Dems’ Spend $433 Million More than McCain
February 14th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Among the three remaining candidates with an opportunity to win the 2008 presidential race, only one — Republican John McCain — is living up to his promises when it comes to reducing government spending. According to a report about the federal budget for fiscal year 2008 by Taxpayers for Common Sense, the U.S. senator from [...]
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Blogger Lists Threats to Humanity, A to Z
January 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
A man needs only peruse the headlines of his local newspaper or online news site to encounter a seemingly-endless list of threats to his very existence. That in mind, I decided to provide a one-day snapshot of the current threats, all taken from today’s headlines, in A-to-Z* order: A = Al-Qaeda (See Padilla sentenced to [...]
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