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Lawmakers travel the world on lobbyists’ dime

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“Lately, the number of privately financed trips offered by corporate interests, lobbyists, universities and foreign governments, including China, have been rising. Trips this year so far total 1,363, at a cost to the hosts of $3.2 million.  Bill Allison, editorial director of the Sunlight Foundation, said the best arrangement would be to conduct all lawmaker travel ‘on the taxpayer’s dime.’ Lawmakers have traveled to a variety of locales this year on trips paid for by private groups and foreign governments, with Turkey the top destination so far, followed by Israel.  Lawmakers stress the travel’s fact-finding nature.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/19/lawmakers-travel-the-world-on-lobbyists-dime/

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A Colonial Gatekeeper That Hillary Would’ve Approved Of

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“The year was 1998, when the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke on The Drudge Report. Hillary Clinton famously lamented that the Internet lacked a ‘gatekeeping function’. This mentality is nothing new. Here’s a quote from way back in 1671, from Colonial Virginia. The Governor at the time was Sir William Berkeley, and he reported back to the British Crown: ‘Thank God, there are no free schools nor printing and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy and sects in the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!'”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/08/a-colonial-gatekeeper-that-hillary.html

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Jack Lew’s “Extraordinary Measures” on Debt Just “Cooking the Books”

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“A little known story that got absolutely no coverage from the mainstream media surfaced last week about the reports from the Treasury Department’s Financial Management Service.  The FMS reports both the Daily Treasury Statement and the Monthly Treasury Statement. According to these reports the federal deficit rose by $98 billion dollars in July, but somehow the federal government’s debt remained exactly the same at $16,699,396,000,000 for the whole month.  It seems that Treasury Secretary, Jack Lew got a bit creative and magically decided to stop the addition of more debt from showing up in the reports.  Wow, don’t we all wish we could do that?”

http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/morganbrittany/2013/08/19/jack-lews-extraordinary-measures-on-debt-just-cooking-the-books-n1667607/page/full

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Justice seeking to block Bernanke testimony

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“The government is trying to block questioning of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in a lawsuit by the former head of American International Group Inc. The Justice Department told a federal appeals court Friday that high-ranking officials should not have to testify except in extraordinary circumstances. Former AIG CEO Hank Greenberg sued the government over the $182 billion bailout of the insurance giant that has since been repaid. It is rare for a Fed chairman to be questioned in a lawsuit, but Judge Thomas Wheeler ruled that Bernanke has firsthand knowledge of the bailout and should undergo questioning.”

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/justice-seeking-block-bernanke-testimony-212444028.html

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How An African ‘Princess’ Banked $3 Billion In A Country Living On $2 A Day

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“For the past year Forbes has been tracing Isabel dos Santos’ path to riches, reviewing a score of documents and speaking with dozens of people on the ground. As best as we can trace, every major Angolan investment held by Dos Santos stems either from taking a chunk of a company that wants to do business in the country or from a stroke of the president’s pen that cut her into the action. Her story is a rare window into the same, tragic kleptocratic narrative that grips resource-rich countries around the world. For President Dos Santos it’s a foolproof way to extract money from his country, while keeping a putative arm’s-length distance away.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2013/08/14/how-isabel-dos-santos-took-the-short-route-to-become-africas-richest-woman/

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The Arbitrary Diktats of Generalissimo Obama

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“The type of quandary that catches my attention is when the Obama Administration delays big parts of Obamacare (hooray!), but does so by cavalierly deciding to disregard the law (boo!). Unfortunately, this isn’t a joke. I wrote about this topic last month and asserted that one of ‘the defining characteristics of a civilized government is adherence to the rule of law.’ Why is this important?”

http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2013/08/16/the-arbitrary-diktats-of-generalissimo-obama/

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‘Hypocrats’

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White House rejects petition calling for ‘Gun Free Zone’ around Obama, Biden

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“President Obama needs armed security because he faces ‘serious, persistent and credible threats on a daily basis,’ the White House said in response to a petition meant to undercut his push for new gun controls. The petition garnered more than 40,000 signatures.  The White House dismissed the call to disarm the president’s security detail, noting that Congress mandated full-time protection of the president after the third assassination of a sitting president in 1901.  ‘Those who are the subject of ongoing threats must receive the necessary and appropriate protection,’ the White House wrote in its response.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/316999-white-house-slaps-down-call-for-a-gun-free-zone-around-president-obama

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L.A. County Sheriff Awards Carry Permits to Friends, Donors

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“Public records show Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, who is known for being stingy with concealed-weapons permits in an anti-gun jurisdiction, may be giving out permits disproportionately to his friends and political supporters and donors.  L.A. Weekly obtained public records for all of the 341 active concealed-weapons permits in addition to the 123 applications for permits that were denied over the last 18 months. The records show that of all the people who were denied a permit, only one had contributed to Baca. Baca’s friends and campaign donors disproportionately make up the list of those who have active permits.”

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/02/14/Report-L-A-County-Sheriff-Disproportionately-Awards-Concealed-Weapons-Permits-to-Friends-Donors

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Time to Sequester Air Force One Vacation Flights

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Time to Sequester Air Force One Vacation Flights

“Air Force One costs taxpayers $179,750 per hour. It’s time to sequester President Obama’s use of Air Force One and limit it to official business rather than vacations and sight seeing tours.”

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