Posts Tagged ‘corruption’
Obama Asks America to Commit Suicide
By Alan Caruba President Obama is one of the most articulate we have had in that office. His ability to deliver a speech or a short talk such as his first from the Oval Office Tuesday evening is impressive. He knows how to deliver an address. What he doesn’t know or doesn’t care about is the difference between the truth and a lie. His [...]
Deputy Atty. Gen. Nominee Defended Saudi Terrorist
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles President Obama’s nominee to be second-in-command at the Justice Department represented the Saudi royals who helped finance the 2001 terrorist attacks and raked in millions of dollars to “monitor” a collapsed insurance company that got a massive government bailout. Furthermore, the president’s [...]
Pelosi’s Office Costs Taxpayers More Than 18k Monthly
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In the midst of her state’s dire financial crisis, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has moved her district office to a new state-of-the-art building with an award-winning “green” design at quadruple the monthly rent of the old location. That means taxpayers in the (not so) Golden State will dish out [...]
Moribund Free Market? — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, There’s an article on Bloomberg by Lorraine Woellert and John Gittelsohn which explains how taxpayers are on the hook to Fannie and Freddie for somewhere between $160 Billion and $ 1 Trillion. I was unfamiliar with one word they used; not being the sharpest pencil in the box I get to use the dictionary and thesaurus more often [...]
Kagan Helped Bill Clinton Cover Up Scandals
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee was a key figure in covering up at least two of Bill Clinton’s scandals although the true extent of her role won’t ever be known because the files will remain secret. The Clinton Library has released more than 40,000 pages of records from Elena Kagan’s [...]
Court Upholds Day Laborer Law
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In an unexpected but welcome victory for immigration enforcement, a notoriously liberal federal appellate court has ruled that a southern California city can enforce a law that allows police to arrest illegal alien day laborers who solicit work on public streets. The surprise ruling, issued this week by [...]
Internet, Bingo, Art Classes For Jailed Illegal Immigrants
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In the Obama Administration’s effort to make the immigration detention system less penal and more humane, illegal immigrants will be offered art classes, bingo, continental breakfast and free unlimited phone and internet service in prison. Immigration jails will also get makeovers to soften their look [...]
Crisis Abuse 101 — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, I have to hand it to the Obama administration for being able to work their agenda forward through the use of immediacy and crisis intervention. Each new crisis takes our nation further from its foundations of free enterprise and individual liberty; all for the sake of saving what’s left, if you believe what they’re dishing [...]
Senate Panel Clears Judge Who Protects Child Sex Offenders
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles A liberal activist notorious for bending laws to protect child sex offenders and a long history of extreme leniency in criminal sentencing is one step closer to getting confirmed as a federal appellate court judge. The Democratic-controlled Senate Judiciary [...]
National Security Agencies Fail To Protect U.S.
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Nearly a decade after the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, government agencies charged with protecting the nation from terrorism can’t seem to get their act together, repeatedly failing to adequately shield the U.S. from threats mainly because they [...]
Mexico Gives IDs To Illegal Immigrants In U.S.
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In a baffling development, a major U.S. county is allowing Mexico’s government to operate a satellite consular office to offer the area’s illegal immigrants identification cards that will facilitate life in the United States. It gets better. Mexican officials [...]
Illinois Spends $55 Mil To Insure Illegal Immigrants
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles A universal children’s health insurance program created by Illinois’ corrupt former governor is covering mostly illegal immigrants and costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars amid a perplexing $13 billion state budget deficit. About 75% of the children [...]
Senators Get Donor $8 Million Earmark
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In yet another example of lawmakers unscrupulously funneling tax dollars to their political supporters, New Jersey’s two U.S. Senators steered a multi million-dollar earmark to enhance a campaign donor’s luxury condominium development. Democrats Frank [...]
Bill Clinton May Never Release Kagan Files
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles A famously corrupt U.S. president best known for getting impeached by Congress and selling trade mission seats to Chinese Communists will decide if lawmakers that consider judicial nominations can access crucial information about Obama’s Supreme Court nominee. Bill Clinton, the nation’s most [...]
$3 Billion Military Jet Engine Will Never Be Used
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In an abhorrent waste of public resources, Congress has allocated billions of dollars for a useless backup military jet engine long rejected by the Pentagon because the manufacturers have plants in states represented by the lawmakers who earmark the money. The scandal involves the unnecessary and grossly [...]
Feds Warn Of Terrorists Sneaking Into U.S. Through Mexico
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles The Department of Homeland Security has warned Texas law enforcement agencies that a renowned Al Qaeda terrorist is planning to sneak into the U.S. through Mexico, illustrating that Middle Eastern extremists continue to exploit the porous southern border in their quest to harm Americans. While [...]
Obama Used Bill Clinton To Orchestrate Sestak Bribery Scheme
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Surprise, surprise the White House has completed a thorough investigation into the Joe Sestak bribery scandal and determined that no one in the Obama Administration committed any crimes because Bill Clinton actually carried out the shady scheme to eliminate the Pennsylvania congressman from the U.S. [...]
Penn. Legislature In Corruption “Time Warp”
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Lawmakers in a state rocked by numerous political scandals refuse to adopt sweeping changes recommended by a special grand jury appointed to root out persistent corruption in the legislature. The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office assigned the special grand [...]
Sheriff Fears Program Will Lead To Deportations
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles A California sheriff wants to opt out of a national program that checks the immigration status of all arrestees because it would eradicate the area’s sanctuary law and put too many people at risk of deportation. While this open support for criminals from a top [...]
“Spit Assault” Gets N.Y. Bus Drivers Months Of Paid Leave
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In a bizarre example of government waste, a major U.S. city with a $400 million transit budget shortfall allows public bus drivers to take months of paid leave every time a rider spits on them. Thanks to a contract negotiated by the New York City bus drivers’ [...]
Former Detroit Mayor Back In Jail
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles The famously corrupt politician who ran Detroit for six years before getting criminally convicted will go back to jail for violating the terms of his probation by hiding assets to avoid paying the city $1 million for his felonious antics. The storied career of [...]
JW Sues DOJ for Documents Regarding Decision to Dismiss of Lawsuit against New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Washington, DC -- May 25, 2010 Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Obama Justice Department to obtain documents [...]
Illegal Immigrant Rapist Had Been Deported 9 Times
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In what appears to be a growing national trend, an illegal immigrant with an extensive criminal record and multiple deportation orders remained in the U.S. long enough to commit yet another atrocious crime. The tragic case in Washington State marks the latest of [...]
Homeland Sec. Officers Go On Spending Spree
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Officers at the Homeland Security agency that secures federal buildings went on huge personal spending sprees with their government credit cards yet authorities refuse to punish them or force them to refund taxpayers. The Federal Protective Service (FPS) employees [...]
Chill Amigo! — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Let’s take a look at how government in these United States is being run into the ground by folks who are in positions of leadership. We keep hearing a similar excuse being espoused, “I haven’t read it”; played back in a variety of ways. In the case of the Arizona Illegal Alien Mexican Stand Off bill far too many high [...]
Judge Bans Enforcement Of N.Y. Day Laborer Law
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles A federal judge is preventing a New York town from enforcing its “unconstitutional” law prohibiting illegal immigrant day laborers from seeking work on public property and people from hiring them. Oyster Bay, a Long Island town of about 300,000 residents, [...]
Clinton Library Won’t Release Kagan Files
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Claiming that there are too many files to sort through, Clinton Library officials won’t provide the Senate Judiciary Committee with crucial information on Elena Kagan’s work in the administration in time for her confirmation hearings. The committee, which [...]
Police Knew Time Square Bomb Accomplice Was Illegal Alien
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In an alarming example of how sanctuary cities can protect terrorists, a Pakistani man arrested for the Time Square bombing admitted on a city license application that he entered the U.S. illegally and authorities took no action. That’s because he applied for the [...]
Census Hires Sex Offender For Home Visits
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In a shameful mishap for the U.S. government, the Census Bureau knowingly hired a registered sex offender with a long criminal history to make home visits even though such convicts are precluded from working for the agency. The embarrassing gaffe came to light when a [...]
State Law Aims To Protect Felons
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles To facilitate life after prison and avoid discrimination, Massachusetts is on the verge of enacting legislation that will protect convicted criminals by concealing their records from potential employers and landlords. A handful of states have measures that shield [...]
