Great Moments in Government Waste and Taxpayer Ripoffs

Senator Coburn’s office circulates a “Pork Report” every day, which I probably shouldn’t read since my blood pressure spikes. Today’s collection of stories included this outrageous example of federal bureaucrats living the good life with our tax dollars. Federal investigators said Benjamin Clayton, a former U.S. Department of Energy employee is a crook who racked [...]

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Noncompliance Leads to a Victory for Liberty

I’m glad I read Instapundit, because my day has been made brighter by the news that Arizona’s statists have given up on their money-grubbing speed camera program. Here’s a cheerful story which explains that widespread noncompliance was the key. Dozens of photo-enforcement cameras on freeways throughout the state are coming down this week. A total [...]

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Obama’s Jobs Fantasy

In a column in today’s New York Post, I mock White House unemployment calculations and then explain why companies are not anxious to hire more workers. The White House last year released a supposedly scientific analysis that claimed to show that adopting the “stimulus” bill would cut unemployment. Indeed, the report specifically estimated that the [...]

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