Pandering to Muslims at Taxpayer Expense

by David J. Rusin  •  Jul 26, 2010 at 10:47 am Western governments may be swimming in red ink, but there has been no slowdown in public resources being devoted to placating Muslims and conducting comical exercises in multicultural outreach. A few recent lowlights spanning three countries: Netherlands. “Nijmegen municipality sees no reason to withdraw […]

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30,543 Reasons Spending Is Out of Control

June 3, 2010 | By Amanda J. Reinecker Washington will spend $30,543 per household in 2010—an increase of $5,000 per household in just two years. Federal spending and deficits are increasing at levels unseen since World War II. And though President Obama has done little to quell the spending surge — in fact, his budget only accelerates […]

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Think Tanks as the Hidden Hand

by Daniel Pipes May 25, 2010 updated May 29, 2010 I devoted years of my life to the two books on conspiracy theories – but never did anyone allege that a think tank secretly runs the United States. That idea, however, apparently has widespread appeal in Islamabad, Pakistan, according to Sabrina Tavernise writing at “U.S. […]

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Cameron Elected as British PM

David Cameron was today appointed the new UK Prime Minister. This follows five days of negotiation after the May 6 general election resulted in a hung parliament. While the Conservative Party won the largest number of seats, they lacked enough for a majority government, and will consequently form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, who […]

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545 Kings

By Charlie Reese Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits? Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we […]

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Next to burst: The Government Bubble.

The Fed’s Last Hurrah By Peter Schiff During the 1990s, inflationary Federal Reserve policy fueled a tech stock bubble. When that bubble burst, the Fed inflated a larger one in real estate. Now that the real estate bubble has burst, the Fed is inflating the biggest bubble of them all – a bubble in government. […]

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Obama’s new tax on…Rainwater!?

Would President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency really force Americans to pay a tax on “rainwater runoff” from homes and small businesses? You bet they would.  In fact, the EPA, under radical environmentalist Lisa Jackson, is proposing regulations to do just that.  Take a look at the EPA’s own Federal Register filing, where the EPA generally describes the initiative it’s […]

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