By Andrea Seabrook
When congressional leaders began to assemble the mammoth economic stimulus bill, top Democrats and the Obama administration decided that there would be no earmarks: no "special projects," no pork-barrel spending. In so doing, they gave up some control over how the money is spent, leaving the decision to public servants around the country.
"Someone [...]
If Joe the Plumber were Jawad the Suspected Terrorist, civil-liberties activists would stampede the halls of Congress on his behalf.
Liberal columnists would hyperventilate over the outrageous invasions of his privacy by Ohio state and local employees.
The ACLU would demand the Big Brother snoopers' heads.
And Democratic leaders would convene immediate hearings and parade him around the Beltway [...]
By Lanny Davis
BLOOMBERG - "I'm always for less regulation," John McCain, March 3, 2008
"Casual oversight by regulatory agencies in Washington" is responsible for the crisis, John McCain, Sept. 17, 2008
Which is it, Sen. McCain: regulation or deregulation?
If a liberal Democratic administration had put hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money at risk by bailing [...]
By David Forsmark, FrontPageMagazine.com
That "thwack" you hear from coast to coast is conservative book-writing pundits smacking themselves on the forehead and exclaiming, "Why didn't I think of that?"
The reason is National Review editor Jonah Goldberg's new book, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, as it [...]
