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Posts Tagged ‘political corruption’
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Court Says Bush Illegally Wiretapped Two Americans
By David Kravets March 31, 2010 | 1:26 pm | Categories: Cover-Ups, Sunshine and Secrecy, Surveillance
A federal judge on Wednesday said the George W. Bush administration illegally eavesdropped on the telephone conversations of two American lawyers who represented a now-defunct Saudi [...]
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Monday, February 15th, 2010
Portrayed in the media as magical and good, the reality is that he is a thug and a thief!
By now, it is painfully evident to all but the most rabid progressive liberals that the so-called “trickle-up economics”, wealth-spreading and obsessively dysfunctional government spending known as Obamanomics has been a complete and total failure.
The Obama Administration [...]
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Saturday, February 13th, 2010
We are not supposed to speak ill of the dead. But those whom the deceased viciously smeared and humiliated deserve to be defended.
Entrenched Democratic Rep. John Murtha passed away on Feb. 8 after a botched gallbladder surgery.
He has been hailed as a “military advocate” (Associated Press) and “one of the greatest patriots ever to serve [...]
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
Pssst…Hey remix…you might want to cover your ears and eyes and just repeat “stimulustimulustimusstimulustimulustimusstimulustimulustimusstimulustimulustimusstimulustimulustimus” as loudly as possible, to try and make this one go away too. Heh.
Stimulus foes (Hypocritical Repugs) see value in seeking cash Nooo! Ya don’t Say!!!!
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/09/stimulus-foes-see-value-in-seeking-cash//print/
And Looky!!! From a far right wingnut paper, no less!!! BWWAAA HAHAHAHAH GWAAA!!!!!
Sen. Christopher S. Bond [...]
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
Michele Bachmann has become known as the Queen of the anti-government Tea Baggers, protesting health care reform and slamming every other government handout as “socialism.” But what her followers don’t know is that Rep. Bachmann is also a queen of another kind—a welfare queen. That’s right, the anti-government insurrectionist has taken more than a quarter-million [...]
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Even in a fiat based monetary system, credit is not money. Credit is a claim on money. 96% of the U.S. money supply is credit. Credit is created by debt. Even Bernake cannot expand credit without a corrisponding debt being created. Inflating debt does not increase the money supply, it only increases the demand for [...]
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today condemned members of the House for voting to refer a resolution that would have removed Congressman Charlie Rangel as Chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee.
“Once again, the Democrat-controlled House has voted to sweep outright corruption under the rug on behalf of a fellow party [...]
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Friday, October 2nd, 2009
Why do the ethics committees of both the House and the Senate operate in such luxurious secrecy while members of Congress get to preen before C-SPAN as they excoriate Fed Chair Ben Bernanke or Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack? Open hearings into Congress’ ethical transgressions would be a powerful antidote to the insulting charade of [...]
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Thursday, October 1st, 2009
Legislative Corruption
by J. R. Nyquist
Weekly Column Published: 09.04.2009
In a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887, Lord Acton wrote: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” We typically think of kings and military dictators when reading these words. But legislative assemblies are also centers of power, and hubs of corruption. Infused with a [...]
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Saturday, September 26th, 2009
“Over a year ago, we suffered the most significant financial collapse since the Great Depression, and the result of that is massive unemployment and underemployment. People lost their savings. People lost their homes. Now, despite the greed and illegal behavior of Wall Street, there is a massive effort to make sure that Congress does nothing [...]
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