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Dirty Money Watch: Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas

By: c-Dirty Money 01/18/11 9:05 PM

WHO: Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas WHAT: Granger received $1,000 from General Motors' Political Action Committee. WHY IT'S DIRTY: General Motors was the recipient of a $60 billion taxpayer bailout last year that has not been paid back, so the automaker has no right to curry congressional favor at Americans' expense. Read More

Census shows states with low taxes have higher growth

By: Matthew Sheffield 12/31/10 8:00 AM

Since the official 2010 Census numbers were released last week, political number crunchers have compiled all sorts of stats about who the big winners and losers have been. Read More

In vacationing, Obama is just your average president

By: J.P. Freire 12/23/10 8:33 AM

Reading descriptions of President Obama's sojourn to his native (shh) Hawaii for the holidays, you'd think that his decision to have some "me-time" after a brutal session was unprecedented. Just look at this paragraph that makes it seem as though Obama really is different: Read More

Dirty Money Watch: Rep. Pete Olson, R-Texas

By: c-Dirty Money 12/21/10 9:05 PM

WHO: Rep. Pete Olson, R-Texas WHAT: Olson received $1,000 from General Motors' Political Action Committee. WHY IT'S DIRTY: General Motors was the recipient of a $60 billion taxpayer bailout last year that has not been paid back, so the automaker has no right to curry congressional favor at Americans' expense. Read More

Brittany Shane splits SF for Austin

By: Tom Lanham 12/17/10 11:22 AM

It’s a good lesson in life: You can’t take things for granted. Like regular Bay Area concerts from local folk-rock darling Brittany Shane, whom you could always catch somewhere around these parts every other month or so. No longer. She’s split the scene for good. As her marriage was ending this August, she made a clean break of it, packed up all her belongings, and headed down to Austin, a town practically fueled by her type of music. Read More

Federal Reserve historian slams Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

By: J.P. Freire 12/10/10 8:49 AM

Allan Meltzer, author of a new exhaustive history of the Federal Reserve, slammed Congress's recently passed financial reform law for creating an "abomination" in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. During a panel discussion at the American Enterprise Institute with former Fed chairman Paul Volcker, Meltzer, who has been critical of federal intervention during the financial crisis, said that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was "absolutely not the way to go." Read More

Hensarling is top name surfacing as Pence successor in House GOP

By: Mark Tapscott 10/28/10 7:00 PM

Word had hardly gotten out that Rep. Mike Pence, R-IN, was thinking of stepping down as chairman of the House Republican Conference in order to make a run for either the White House or the Indiana governorship before the rumor mill was crackling with messages about who might be/should be/better not be his successor. Read More

The New York Times: Democratic voter fraud? That’s crazy talk!

By: Mark Hemingway 10/24/10 7:00 PM

The New York Times tackles the subject of voter fraud today, I’m going to give them points for honesty for this one. Sure, the article is biased, but if you’re going to slant things in a news article, you might as well come out and announce it in the first few paragraphs: Read More

Over half of all new jobs created in the last year were created in Texas

By: Mark Hemingway 10/17/10 12:00 AM

Via Glenn Reynolds, Rich Lowry drops this amazing statistic into his column today: Read More

Local Tea Party group may have uncovered massive vote fraud in Texas

By: Mark Hemingway 09/25/10 12:00 AM

The Examiner’s Mark Tapscott wrote about this story over a week ago, but now Fox News is reporting on Tea Party activists in Texas uncovering vote fraud: Read More