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How did Barack Obama become Monsanto’s man in Washington?How did Barack Obama become Monsanto’s man in Washington? By Jon Rappoport April 29, 2013 www.nomorefakenews.com And when are anti-GMO activist...
View ArticleBiased Media • Washington Post suffers 85% earnings drop
Washington Post suffers 85% earnings drop 50 By MACKENZIE WEINGER | 5/3/13 12:00 PM EDTThe Washington Post Co. on Friday reported bad news for its newspaper division, with revenue totaling $127.3...
View ArticleWashington Sport: Throwing Competitors under the Bus
Chris Edwards One reason why Washington keeps getting bigger is that so many business people are willing to throw their competitors under the government bus. The Washington Post today describes how a...
View ArticleHuge Value-Added Tax Increases in Europe Show Why Washington Politicians...
Daniel J. Mitchell The most important, powerful, and relevant argument against the value-added tax in the short run is that we can balance the budget in just five years by capping spending so it grows...
View ArticleObamacare Train Wreck? Washington Post: Obama Administration “has gone hat in...
Obamacare looks increasingly like a disaster. It could be Obama’s Iraq War. (Sadly it’s even more expensive.) Senator Baucus, a Democrat, recently said he saw an Obamacare “train wreck coming down.”...
View ArticleWhat Washington State Can Expect From Higher K-12 Spending
Andrew J. Coulson Just over a year ago, the Washington State Supreme Court ruled that the legislature was insufficiently funding K-12 education, and ordered it to boost that funding. A bi-partisan...
View ArticleWashington Booms during Slowest Recovery
David Boaz Continuing our ongoing series on the wealth of Washington, we bring you the lead story in Friday’s “Mansion” section of the Wall Street Journal: The Journal reports: As other American cities...
View ArticleWashington Post Investigation: Guns in America
Tim Lynch Today’s Washington Post has a lengthy article about crime and firearms in the District of Columbia and in neighboring Prince George’s County, Maryland. Here is the most important sentence...
View ArticleWashington Foolishly Tilts Towards War in Syria
Doug Bandow The bitterest fights tend to be civil wars. Today, Syria is going through such a brutal bloodletting. The administration reportedly has decided to provide arms to Syria’s insurgents. It’s...
View ArticleSiding with the Heritage Foundation in the “Austerity” Fight with Paul...
Daniel J. Mitchell I’m not reluctant to criticize my friends at the Heritage Foundation. In some cases, it is good-natured ribbing because of the Cato-Heritage softball rivalry, but there are also real...
View ArticleWashington Post: Democrats Are Abandoning Obamacare
Michael F. Cannon From The Washington Post’s The Fix: Moderate Democrats are quitting on Obamacare By Scott Clement, Published: July 23 at 9:00 am The landmark health-reform law passed in 2010 has...
View ArticleWashington Post: Libertarianism and the coming Republican political war
The most important movement in American politics right now is the libertarian one. I was speaking with some folks in DC yesterday and everyone was talking about the Amash NSA vote in the House. While...
View ArticleWashington Post: Adding Insult to Obamacare’s Injury
Michael F. Cannon On Sunday, The Washington Post published my letter to the editor: The excellent July 24 front-page article “Health law’s unintended impact on part-timers” showed how President Obama’s...
View ArticleTime for Washington to Just Shut Up
Doug Bandow The military regime in Cairo continues to kill supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi with Washington’s financial support. The Obama administration is turning hypocrisy into an art...
View ArticleTime for Washington to Just Shut Up
Doug Bandow The military regime in Cairo continues to kill supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi with Washington’s financial support. The Obama administration is turning hypocrisy into an art...
View ArticleIt’s Time for Washington to Shut Up about Promoting Democracy
Doug Bandow The military regime in Cairo continues to kill supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi with Washington’s financial support. The Obama administration is turning hypocrisy into an art...
View ArticleViolating the Law to Subsidize Egypt’s Coup: Bipartisan Foolishness in...
Doug Bandow U.S. policy in Egypt is a disaster. Washington long backed authoritarian rule. Now military rule has supplanted short-lived democracy. Washington should disengage and cut off all foreign...
View ArticleLiberal New York Magazine lambastes the Washington DC establishment...
I do find it interesting that there are people who believe, even today, that there is such a thing as “good government.” Good government, as the term is most often used, is a myth. It does not exist...
View ArticleHow Washington, D.C., Works (or Not), Part 4
Freakonomics co-author Stephen Dubner recently conducted a very entertaining interview with the authors of another publication that readers of the MyGovCost blog might find interesting. We’ll let him...
View ArticleWashington warns Bitcoin, Get a lobbyist and pay us (or else)
A similar article to the below featured article appeared in Politico last year. It warned that Apple (newly the largest company in the world, with lots of cash) had better get a lobbying presence in...
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