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• “The Naked Communist” List and The “Articles of Freedom”

  
  The Liberty Tree Lantern — Authority: 128
  “The Naked Communist”/Congressional Record–Appendix, pp. A34-A35 ^ | January 10, 1963 | Cleon Skousen Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 9:03:31 AM by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard Communist Goals (1963) Congressional Record–Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963 Current Communist Goals EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF ...
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• Tracking Your Taxes: Defense Bill Pays for Prostate Screenings, Sprinkler System

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  President Obama pledged in August to cut all pork barrel projects from defense spending, threatening to veto any swollen bills that came across his desk -- a pledge shattered by nearly 2,000 pet projects that have made their way into the defense budget. "If a project doesnt support our troops, we will not fund it," he ...
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• Tracking Your Taxes: Defense Bill Pays for Prostate Screenings, Sprinkler System

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 164
  Just last week, Obama broke a promise to veto pork-barrel bills as he signed into law the 2010 Defense Appropriations Bill -- a $636 billion behemoth loaded with $4.2 billion dollars of pork.
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• India Plus & Minus

  
  Independent Indian: Work & Life of Dr Subroto Roy — Authority: 122
  From Facebook: Subroto Roy  says at Patrick Cronin’s Wall at the description of India as ‘the emerging giant’…..”Hmmm…. not really. Just an ancient country with many good and bad things; rotten public finance+government accounting+macroeconomic policy; happy productive people in stable families; quick ...
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• Christmas Eve Quick Survey

  
  GayPatriot — Authority: 643
  I’m just curious what people think…. Who Is More Corrupt? Harry Reid Tom DeLay    pollcode.com free polls -Bruce (GayPatriot)
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• Tracking Your Taxes: Bringing Home the Bacon

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 164
  Looking for a great recipe for pork? Some states with small populations are getting hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks as veteran legislators carry back massive pork-barrel projects to their states and districts. When it comes to bringing home the bacon, Americas last frontier has long been first in line for ...
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• Ma’am’s Incompetence & Harry’s Loony Legerdemain

  
  GayPatriot — Authority: 643
  If the election for the U.S. Senate seat for California next fall is waged on party identification, Barbara Boxer, the all-but-certain Democratic nominee, will win. If, however, it is waged on her record in the Senate, her ideological extremism and her responsiveness (er, lack thereof) to her ...
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• The Coercive Policy and Special Interest Politics of Obamacare

  
  GayPatriot — Authority: 643
  As Senator Harry Reid (D-Mt. Crumpit) rammed the Democrats’ health care overhaul legislation through the Senate, many conservative bloggers , pundits and even the New York Times reported the various payoffs to certain Senators to secure their votes.  Now, some bloggers, pundits and policy wonks (having the ...
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• Health Care Reform, Earmark Edition

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  It’s the first rule of congressional lawmaking: Never miss an opportunity to grab everything you can for your constituents, even if it comes at the expense of everyone else. That’s certainly been the case in the Senate’s health care reform bill, where it wasn’t just the moderate holdouts who successfully ...
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• Obama’s Earmark Explosion

  
  GayPatriot — Authority: 643
  During the campaign, Barack Obama promised to rein in earmarks.  He didn’t go as far as did his Republican rival who “p ledged to eliminate earmarks and ‘veto every earmark pork-barrel bill,’ ” but in first debate, he did agreeing with John McCain “ that the earmarks process has been abused ” and vowed ...
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• The Government: Americas Biggest Employer

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 499
  A recent Rasmussen poll revealed substantial support for small government amongst Americans: Sixty-six percent (66%) of U.S. voters prefer a smaller government with fewer services and lower taxes over a more active government with more services and higher taxes. Even if they prefer a small government, Americans ...
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• About Marinette / Menominee – Sons and Daughters of Liberty

  
  The Liberty Tree Lantern — Authority: 128
  We are a Marinette, WI / Menominee, MI (Twin Cities) group with people from all over northeastern WI and the U.P. of Michigan. Our last Tea Party in Marinette at UW Marinette had over two hundred people in attendance. All of these northeastern Wisconsin and U.P. of Michigan Patriots, attending the Tea Party ...
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• Senate sends $1.1T pork-laden bill to Obama

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 164
  The Senate on Sunday sent President Obama another hot potato, passing a $1.1 trillion catchall spending bill that includes money needed to run dozens of government agencies but also is loaded with pork-barrel spending. The bill, which funds most domestic federal agencies for the rest of this fiscal year, marks a 12 ...
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• Ron Paul is wrong on earmarks

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 499
  The Ron Paul faithful are going to disagree with me, but I’m disappointed that the good doctor continues to engage and support pork barrel spending by voting against an amendment sponsored by Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) that would have banned earmarks in a spending bill : Paul was one of only two “nay” votes ...
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• Watchdogs Cry Foul Over Thousands of Earmarks in Spending Bill

  
  Wishy-Washy Politicians — Authority: 135
  Updated December 11, 2009 FOXNews.com Republicans and taxpayer watchdogs are railing against the thousands of earmarks included in the omnibus spending bill that passed the House Thursday and is awaiting a vote in the Senate. Republicans and tax watchdog groups are railing against the ...
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• Watchdogs Cry Foul Over Thousands of Earmarks in Spending Bill

  
  Speciality Sites 24-7 — Authority: 139
  Updated December 11, 2009 FOXNews.com Republicans and taxpayer watchdogs are railing against the thousands of earmarks included in the omnibus spending bill that passed the House Thursday and is awaiting a vote in the Senate. Republicans and tax watchdog groups are railing against ...
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• Earmarks: An Alien Menace

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 499
  
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• SPIN METER: Hopeful for Obama seat changes tune (AP)

  
  enUws — Authority: 477
  AP – As Mark Kirk campaigns for the Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama, the Republican congressman casts himself as a scourge… Here is the original post: (AP)"> (AP)">SPIN METER: Hopeful for Obama seat changes tune (AP)
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• SPIN METER: Hopeful for Obama seat changes tune (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 180
  AP - As Mark Kirk campaigns for the Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama, the Republican congressman casts himself as a scourge of the pork-barrel, special-interest congressional spending known as "earmarks."
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• Important summits in the USA, Russia, Copenhagen can be attended by the Prime Minister of India as he is not a Member of the Lok Sabha

  
  Independent Indian: Work & Life of Dr Subroto Roy — Authority: 122
  From Facebook: Subroto Roy notes that since Dr Manmohan Singh is the first Indian Prime Minister ever to have chosen with deliberation not to be a member of the Lok Sabha, he has been free to hold important summits at the White House, Kremlin, Copenhagen etc while the Lok Sabha debates mundane matters like the ...
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