ContributorNetwork – COMMENTARY | When will the insanity stop? One day after President Barack Obama asked Congress for yet another increase in the debt limit so the federal government can continue to borrow money to stay solvent; he then offers to give Bangladesh another free billion dollars.

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Stop it Mr. President — Quit Giving Our Money Away
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Big Brother is here. How the feds are tracking your kid: ◼ Student privacy at risk from Feds – NY Post Would it bother you to know that the federal Centers for Disease Control had been shown your daughter’s health records to see how she responded to an STD/teen-pregnancy-prevention program? How about if the federal Department of

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What are ‘cradle to career data systems’? And why should you care?

SC voter ID law rejected by Justice Department (AP)

On December 23, 2011, in Uncategorized, by MarkBeestler

AP – The Justice Department on Friday rejected South Carolina’s law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls, saying it makes it harder for minorities to cast ballots. It was the first voter ID law to be refused by the federal agency in nearly 20 years.

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The GOP has tried to cut departments before, and found the federal bureaucracy to be durable. Plus, Wisconsin Democrats’ search for an alternative, and Huntsman’s focus on New Hampshire.

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The Federal Departments That Wouldn’t Die

More mind boggling cronyism. (Washington Examiner) — Largely out of the media spotlight, the federal government operates a network of financial subsidy programs that benefit big banks by putting taxpayer money at risk. And President Obama, that self-styled populist scourge of Wall Street, is increasing this racket of private profit and public risk that Sen.

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Unreal: Obama Admin’s New Program Gives GE a 90% Taxpayer-Funded Guarantee On Their Accounts Payable For Foreign Exports…

The purpose of a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution (BBA) is to limit the size and scope of the federal government.

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Politicians Forget Why We Need A Strong Balanced Budget Amendment

Via JammieWearingFool : ” These people aren’t even trying to hide their ugly anti-Semitism .” And from the blurb at the video: Here’s one of the protesters Reason.tv spoke to at Occupy Wall Street in Los Angeles on October 12, 2011. She identifies herself as Patricia McAllister and as an employee of Los Angeles Unified School District. “I think that the Zionist Jews, who are running these big banks and our Federal Reserve, which is not run by the federal government… they need to be run out of this country,” she said . Well, no doubt Satan’s progressives will be flooding the phone lines at LAUSD. Not.

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Anti-Semitic Protester at Occupy Wall Street — Los Angeles

In today’s Wall Street Journal : Asked who was to blame for the 2008 financial crisis and whether any bankers should have been prosecuted, Mrs. Bachmann and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich put the onus on the federal government, with Mr. Gingrich suggesting that former Senate Banking Chairman Chris Dodd and Rep. Barney Frank, former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, should both be jailed. Keep reading this post . . .

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Barney Frank: The Community Reinvestment Act Was a ‘Republican Failure’

I can’t decide if this is a good thing or a bad thing (Fox News) To the dismay of consumer groups and the discomfort of Democrats, President Obama wants Congress to make it easier for private debt collectors to call the cellphones of consumers delinquent on student loans and other billions owed the federal government. Certainly, people

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Quietly, Obama Wants To Allow Collectors To Robo-Call Wireless Phones

ContributorNetwork – To tackle the national deficit, President Barack Obama has created a plan to restructure the federal Medicaid program. Disabled, parent and senior activists are protesting proposed cuts, saying it would leave many handicapped children, adults and seniors without care. Here are some facts and figures about Medicaid.

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Disabled, Seniors Protest Managed Care, Medicaid Cuts
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