The president’s sudden threat to veto earmarks during this week’s State of the Union address seemed almost comical from a commander in chief who has presided over a drastic increase in the controversial practice abused by lawmakers to get federal dollars for pet projects. President George W. Bush stood stoically at the podium and said

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In an effort to reverse his rapidly diminishing popularity among California Hispanics, Illinois Senator Barack Obama has announced support for a controversial plan that stirred massive outrage when Hillary Clinton recently endorsed it—granting driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. Trailing 3-to-1 behind Clinton in several California polls, Obama has taken the sort of risk that perhaps

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An uncontrollable urge to excuse unethical behavior, hypocrisy and denial are responsible for a serious ethical decline in both the public and private sectors, according to a nationally renowned expert on the subject. Citing an appalling litany of recent government corruption scandals, ethics expert Marianne Jennings, a professor at Arizona State University, lectured public officials

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Even though Democratic presidential candidates pledged not to campaign in Florida after its primary was moved up, Hillary Clinton spent the weekend in the Sunshine State raising big bucks and campaigning before Tuesday’s big event. Violating her own party’s rules, Clinton toured south Florida with the mayor of Miami (Manny Diaz) and attended two big

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Open border advocates are blaming the death of an Oklahoma infant on the state’s new immigration reform law, claiming the sick baby’s illegal immigrant parents didn’t get medical help because they feared being deported even though the law had not yet been implemented. The two month-old infant had diarrhea for more than 10 days yet

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The federal government is refusing to help a Texas town that wants to crack down on illegal immigration by denying access to a database that would determine whether applicants who want to rent housing are in the country legally. Desperate to curb the large influx of illegal aliens that have taken a toll on schools

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The mayor of a major U.S. city and his chief of staff lied under oath at a police whistleblower trial to conceal their extramarital affair and could face up to 15 years in prison for felony perjury. During court testimony last summer Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick repeatedly denied his romantic relationship with his city employee

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Days after a U.S. Border Patrol agent was deliberately killed by Mexican smugglers Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff revealed that agents are regularly under siege by violent drug cartels and that violence along the border will definitely increase this year. Chertoff disclosed the information while discussing the tragic death of Border Patrol officer Luis Aguilar,

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The upcoming federal corruption trial of presidential candidate Barack Obama’s longtime friend and financial supporter is sure to undermine the Illinois senator’s self-promoted, squeaky-clean image of exceptionally high ethical standards and claims of never being influenced by special interests. In fact, timing couldn’t be worst for the Democratic presidential candidate who has repeatedly downplayed his

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Officials at a major public university in the northeast actually rewrote records to award the governor’s daughter a graduate degree when in fact she never finished the courses required to obtain it. When the daughter of West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin was promoted to chief operating officer of a major drug company, a local newspaper

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