U.S., Mexico Conspire to Get Mexicans in U.S. on Food Stamps
As part of an effort to encourage Mexicans living in the United States to enroll in the federal food stamp program, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) employees have met...
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Sen. Lee Thwarts Sneak Attempt to Pass UN Disability Treaty
Those concerned about U.S. sovereignty have worried that Democrats would try to ram certain UN agreements — the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT),...
Obama Family and Staff Cost Taxpayers $1.4 Billion in 2011
For all his talk about cutting the deficit, President Barack Obama has been anything but shy about spending taxpayers’ money lavishly — and not just on favored political constituencies....
Before 2012, HHS Claimed No Authority to Grant Welfare Work Waivers
The Government Accountability Office found that prior to the Department of Health and Human Services' July memorandum granting waivers of welfare work requirements, HHS had consistently held that it...
Jury Clears Minnesota Farmer of Raw Milk Charges
In what his attorney called “a huge victory for food freedom,” a Minnesota farmer was acquitted by a jury of the “crime” of distributing unpasteurized milk to members of...
Romney: It’s a “Compliment” to Be Called “Grandfather of ObamaCare”
Mitt Romney said it's "a compliment" when President Obama calls him "the grandfather of ObamaCare." Yet RomneyCare, the prototype for ObamaCare, has hardly been a rousing success. ...
Chicago Under RahmCare: Do as We Say or Pay Up
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has announced a new “wellness program” for all city employees and their spouses (or domestic partners or civil-union spouses). “Our program will change lives, make...
Obama Admin. Welfare Waivers Violated Law, GAO Finds
Did the Obama administration, in waiving work requirements for welfare recipients, violate the law? According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congress’ investigative arm, the answer is yes.In response...
Sitting on a Mountain of Debt
Federal agencies have spent $500,000 for 1,000 trendy, ergonomic office chairs, a fraction of which were actually needed for medical reasons. ...
Boehner: No One Reads GOP Platform
Amid all the cheers and jeers for the 2012 Republican Party platform, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) let slip the truth about that document: He hasn’t read it, and...
U.S. Funds Israeli Missile Defense But Can’t Get the Technology
The United States has spent over $200 million on a highly effective missile defense system and plans to spend nearly $700 million more on it — yet U.S. troops...
Former Marine Held in Psychiatric Hospital Over Facebook Posts Questioning Govt.
Former Marine Brandon Raub has been detained and committed to a psychiatric hospital because of Facebook posts mainly questioning the federal government. ...
Under ObamaCare, 15-Year-Olds May Get Free Sterilizations Without Parental Consent
Girls as young as 15 could be sterilized at no cost and without their parents' consent under ObamaCare and Oregon state law, sparking concerns about mass sterilization and population...
Food Freedom Fighters Organize Lemonade Freedom Day
Selling lemonade, raw milk, or any other comestible is not a crime. That is the message of the second annual Lemonade Freedom Day. The event, to be held at...
Auto Bailout Now Forecast to Lose $25 Billion — and Counting
At a recent campaign appearance President Barack Obama touted the alleged success of the federal government’s bailout of the automobile industry, saying it saved “more than one million jobs.”...
Chicago Medical Examiner Won’t Release Autopsy of Victim of Botched Abortion
What is the Chicago medical examiner’s office trying to hide with regard to the death of a young woman following a botched abortion? Pro-life group Operation Rescue, with the...
Obama Allows Aid to Countries Using Child Soldiers
It is hardly news that the U.S. government routinely doles out aid to tyrannical regimes around the world. Less well known is the fact that many of those regimes...
After Six Years of RomneyCare, Mass. Imposes Healthcare Price Controls
As surely as night follows day, one government intervention begets another. In Massachusetts, the 2006 healthcare reform law signed by then-Gov. Mitt Romney forced every Bay Stater to buy...
Louisiana Teachers’ Union Threatens Private Schools in State School Choice Program
The Louisiana state teachers' union sent letters to private schools participating in the state's school choice program threatening them with lawsuits if they do not withdraw from the program...
After Soda, Bloomberg Sets His Sights on Baby Formula
First he tried to take super-sized sodas out of the mouths of adults. Now New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to take formula out of the mouths of babies....