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Sequester Kabuki Theater: How Did We Survive Before 2009?

Thursday, April 25th, 2013

Or, Gadzooks, This Giant Sequester-Monster Is Going to Devour Us All!

Back in 1997, I was a youngish, single man living in Los Angeles—working in the entertainment industry and living in a studio apartment in the Virgil District. I had arrived in LA a few months earlier, just in time for — *insert scary music here* – EL NIÑO.

It was certainly a rainy year as a result of El Niño—unusually so, as I later learned. You see, to me, having not lived in Los Angeles before, it was ju...

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Obama Holds Air Travelers Hostage in Sequester Showboating

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013

The Opening Salvo Before Debt Ceiling Vote

Now we know the Obama administration really meant it when it launched its sequester cut scare campaign back in February.

Starting on Monday, sequester-related furlough of air-traffic controllers caused flight delays of up to four hours.

According to the Washington Post, the worst delays were expected at major hub airports, including three in New York, two in Chicago, and airports serving Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Miami, Charlotte, Atlanta, ...

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Sequester Shocker: It Feels Like Nothing’s Changed

Sunday, April 14th, 2013

All that bluster, and for what?

Bankrupting America’s Spending Daily

Thursday, April 4th, 2013

Spending Daily | April 4, 2013

Stimulus-Funded Condom Study Creates Zero Jobs

The Weekly Standard reports, “The details of a stimulus grant awarded to Indiana University to study condom use have now been released on a government website. The study, titled ‘Barriers to Correct Condom Use,’ is now completed, according to the website, and the university received $423,500 of stimulus funds to perform the study. The stimulus project yielded a total of 0.00 jobs created, according...

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Bankrupting America’s Spending Daily

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013

Spending Daily | April 3, 2013

Obama Budget Won’t Be Balanced

The Washington Times reports, “President Obama will not propose a balanced budget in the new fiscal 2014 spending plan that he’ll submit to Congress next week, a White House official said Wednesday. White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said the budget will reduce deficits by an unspecified amount, but it won’t achieve balance like the spending plan that has been approved by House Republicans. ‘You don’t want to balanc...

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Bankrupting America’s Spending Daily

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013

Spending Daily | April 2, 2013

Wind Energy CEO to Washington: Roll Back Misguided Subsidies

Wind energy CEO Patrick Jenevein editorializes in The Wall Street Journal, “The sequester has led to dire warnings from many camps, including advocates of clean energy, who argue that Washington’s modest cuts could derail America’s green future. But from my vantage as a CEO in the wind-power business, the sequester offers Washington a rare opportunity to roll back misguided subsidies and m...

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Bankrupting America’s Spending Daily

Monday, April 1st, 2013

Spending Daily | April 1, 2013

New Federal Department Unveiled Aimed Aimed At Tackling Government Waste
Slugline reports, “With the federal debt nearing $17 trillion, the White House will announce today the formation of a new federal agency to deal with the crippling spending and waste in Washington. The new Department of Spending and Management (SPAM) will have the largest combined budget of any federal department in the administration. According to one senior administration official, ...

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The End of Utopia

Friday, March 29th, 2013

One of many things I don’t understand about those on the Left is how naïve they are.  Even if you get past their childlike belief that human nature doesn’t exist and that if you simply pass enough big government legislation, you can do away with greed, sloth, envy and evil, you still run into their conviction that nothing must ever be allowed to change the climate or the rate of federal spending.

I mean, even if we overlook the idiocy of believing that man controls the elements, and that i...

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