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• Inflated Stimulus Jobs Part 3: Phony Numbers Continue

  
  The Swine Line — Authority: 132
  Despite a sustained rash of news articles that the 640,000 jobs that the Obama Administration claims it “saved or created” is as phony as a $3 bill, there appears to be a willful refusal to make any corrections on their website touting the success . We pointed out that the Obama Administration had a problem with ...
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• Obama to Focus on Spending Cuts in 2010

  
  The Swine Line — Authority: 132
  No, that isn’t a joke or a typo.  According to  Politico : President Barack Obama plans to announce in next year’s State of the Union address that he wants to focus extensively on cutting the federal deficit in 2010 – and will downplay other new domestic spending beyond jobs programs, according to top aides ...
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• Omnibus Appropriations Bill More and More Likely

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 135
  A story in The Hill this morning relays an increasingly likely scenario in Congress: legislators will use an omnibus appropriations bill to finish spending work this year. The article cites the molasses-like speed at which the Senate has worked to pass its remaining appropriations bills. With the second stopgap ...
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• Just in time for Christmas. And Confession.

  
  Lover of Strife — Authority: 122
  The 2010 Calendario Romano has been released. For those not in the know, its a Vatican-approved calendar that features a different smolderingly handsome Catholic priest for each month of the year. Because hapless crushes on straight, married dudes no longer cut it for me in the "Youll never tap that" department.
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• Poll: Snowe Could Lose 2012 GOP Primary In Landslide To Conservative Challenger

  
  BeltwayBlips - Top Political News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 556
  A new survey of Maine from Public Policy Polling (D) has some dire news for Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME), with the moderate Republican potentially losing her 2012 Republican primary against a generic conservative challenger -- and by a landslide, no less. The numbers: Conservative challenger ... Talking Points Memo ...
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• A Letter to Congress & the POTUS

  
  The Bull Speaks! — Authority: 116
  To the Congress & Mr. Obama:Let’s take a moment to review your record BEFORE you come to “We the People” for yet another round of corn-holing, ok?The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775 – you have had 234 years to get it right; it is broke.Social Security was established in 1935 – you have [...]
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• More on Interior Appropriations as it applies to Montana

  
  Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News — Authority: 437
  There are numerous items. The largest goes for complicated land transactions near the Blackfoot River- One of the items we need to find more about is Jon Tester’s addition of $1-million to pay livestock owners for livestock killed for wolves. It also provides funds for  projects keeping wolves away from ...
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• Inflated Stimulus Jobs: Caught But Not Corrected

  
  The Swine Line — Authority: 132
  The reports of phony numbers of jobs that were “saved or created” by President Obama’s bloated pork-laden stimulus bill keep pouring in.  Yet curiously, the White House refuses to make the corrections and continues to tout the phony numbers of over 640,000 jobs. Last week, we pointed out that the Obama ...
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• Obama’s Defense Budget Plan Falling Apart Before First One Passed

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 440
  President Obamas plans for defense reform are being held up by the lack of the 2010 defense appropriations bill. Now it is coming out that a...
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• Porker of the Month: Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 502
    Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has named Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) Porker of the Month for loading up her goodie bag just before Halloween as she prepares to leave the Senate to run for governor of Texas.  While claiming to be a fiscal conservative, the four-term senator requested 149 ...
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• Sen. Lieberman Wants Answers About Alternate Engine – And So Does CAGW

  
  The Swine Line — Authority: 132
  Ever since Citizens Against Government Waste released its 2009 Congressional Pig Book on April 14, 2009, funding for the Joint Strike Fighter alternate engine has come under immense scrutiny.  CAGW even has a web page  dedicated to the engine.  CAGW has identified $771 million in pork barrel earmarks for the ...
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• U.S. states, counties struggle to deliver H1N1 shots

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 541
  washington (reuters) - states and counties will be struggling to vaccinate people against the swine flu pandemic well into december and january — long after the first peak of the virus in the united states, officials said on wednesday.federal health officials also said it will be years before things get any better, ...
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• Senate Passes 2010 Commerce/Justice/Science Appropriations Bill

  
  S E N A T U S — Authority: 538
  Senators have adopted the 2010 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act ( H.R. 2847 ) by a vote of 71 to 28 . According to a Democratic Policy Committee summary , this bill “would appropriate $64.93 billion in non-emergency discretionary spending, including overseas contingencies.” ...
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• Senate Kills Graham Amendment

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  The Senate just tabled the amendment proposed by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) that would have prohibited use of Justice Department funds to prosecute the 9/11 terror suspects in U.S. federal courts. Effectively, that means it’s dead. The amendment, S.A. 2669, to the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies ...
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• Ohio proposals for GLRI dollars

  
  Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog — Authority: 432
  The Ohio lake Erie Commission is compiling a list of projects (PDF) for potential funding through the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative . It includes funding for the removal of two dams on the Cuyahoga River.
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• Have We Learned Nothing From the Fan & Fred Disaster?

  
  The Swine Line — Authority: 132
  In my daily download of GAO reports, this testimony on the financial condition of the USPS caught my attention.  The really eye-popping part was at the very bottom: Increasing postal rates may provide a short-term revenue boost but would risk depressing mail volume and revenues in the long-term, in part by ...
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• Graham Amendment Would Bar Trials of Terror Suspects in Federal Court

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  When I wrote my earlier post about the group of illustrious Americans urging the Obama administration to close Guantanamo and bring suspected terrorists to justice in U.S. federal courts, I neglected to mention that Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), joined by Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Jim Webb ...
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• First-Time Homebuyers Tax Credit – Update III

  
  The Swine Line — Authority: 132
  Last evening, the Senate passed the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act (H.R. 3548), a bill mostly aimed at extending unemployment benefits.  The bill also included the extension on the $8000 first-time homebuyers tax credit.   Under the bill, first-time home buyers will be able to claim the $8,000 tax ...
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• U.S. Congress Approves Budget Increases for Arts and Humanities Endowments

  
  Authentic Art Visions — Authority: 119
  The New York Times, 10/30/09 “The House and Senate on [October 29] passed a budget increase for the National Endowment for the Arts [NEA] and for the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Interior Appropriations Bill for FY 2010 sets budgets for each agency at $167.5 million; up $12.5 million from last ...
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• GLRI reactions

  
  Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog — Authority: 432
  John Austin of the Brookings Institution think that the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative will be " a major shot in the arm" for the regions metropolitan areas. A Plain Dealer editorial called it " great news for the Great Lakes ".
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