Archive for December, 2008
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
"Follow the Money" is a modern interpretation of "Cui Bono", to whose benefit, and it is critically important to citizen voters ability to hold government accountable. Bringing transparency, essentially, putting the government check book online as Governors Palin and Jindal have done and posting State contracts, as Pennsylvania does, is ...
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
The Manzos, Mike and Rachel, a family facing prison, are they not? House Majority Leader Bill DeWeese and Democratic caucus are distancing themselves from former Majority Leader’s chief of staff, Mike Manzo, who has now agreed to plead guilty. As Brad Bumsted points out, Mike Manzo has been around for ...
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Environmental Working Group
The Farm Subsidy Page
“What's in this database?
The lists of top subsidy beneficiaries have changed dramatically. Just about every ranking of subsidy payments has changed in this new database because, for the first time, USDA has tracked subsidy benefits as they pass through tens of thousands of ...
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
“While a corollary of capitalism is greed; a corollary of socialism is envy.” Herbert London Hudson Institute
The Green Sickness (Joseph Eptein, Envy, reviewed by Bradley Doucet 11 August 2008) by Bradley Doucet Joseph Epstein, Envy: The Seven Deadly Sins (Oxford University Press, 2006), 144 pages (paperback), $18.95
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Monday, December 29th, 2008
Casablancapa, is an excellent site focusing mostly on the Bonusgate prosecutions of Democrats and the “nonprosecutions” of Republicans. Many of us have received e-mails from an anonymous but obviously well informed source, very likely a Righteous Democrat or, perhaps, a partisan Democrat. Nevertheless, the information appears to be reliable. Much ...
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