In the latest of several scandals to hit Oklahoma’s second-largest city, two public officials have been federally charged in a bribery scheme involving millions of dollars worth of government contracts.  Federal prosecutors say the Tulsa public work managers accepted bribes from contractors and over paid them—with tax dollars, of course—for their work. The two city

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Caving into pressure from a national organization of immigration lawyers, the Obama Administration has delayed implementation of a measure requiring federal contractors to use an employment verification system. Scheduled to take effect this month, the new I-9 Regulation requires companies that win government contracts of more than $100,000 to use a federal electronic database to

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Two Pennsylvania judges recently suspended by the state’s Supreme Court have pleaded guilty to federal charges that they took millions of dollars in kickbacks in an ongoing corruption scheme of incarcerating juveniles for a profit. The disgraced Luzerne County judges, Mark Ciavarella and Michael T. Conahan, admitted accepting $2.6 million in exchange for rulings that

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The final cost of building fence along the United States’ extremely vulnerable southern border is still pending but a new government report reveals the exorbitant tab so far—an average of nearly $4 million per mile. While the figure may seem off the charts outrageous, it’s actually what U.S. taxpayers are dishing out to erect the

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A second Barack Obama cabinet pick who for years evaded taxes suddenly became motivated to pay them during the vetting process and the administration famously known for promoting change wants Americans to forgive and forget. A few weeks ago it was the cheating Treasury Secretary—considered by some to be a brilliant financial markets specialist—who committed

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Criminal street gangs—mostly comprised of illegal immigrants—are responsible for the majority of violent crimes in the United States and are the primary distributors of most illicit drugs. The alarming, but not surprising, information is revealed in a new report published by the Justice Department’s National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC), an FBI task force created in

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Latino advocates are accusing federal agents of racial profiling for arresting two dozen illegal immigrant day laborers outside a Maryland convenience store and subsequently deporting most of them.  Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents made the arrests during an operation targeting previously deported illegal aliens who remained in the U.S. against a judge’s orders. The

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A Florida appellate court has ruled that illegal immigrants cannot benefit from a publicly funded state rehabilitation program for victims of brain and spinal cord injuries.  An administrative judge had previously determined that a state rule rendering illegal aliens ineligible for Florida’s Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Program is an “invalid exercise of delegated legislative

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President Barack Obama has repeatedly violated his innovative campaign promise to ban lobbyists from his administration by hiring at least a dozen to high-profile positions, including several to his cabinet.  Obama’s famously coined lobbyists “won’t find a job in my White House” rhetoric has turned out to be a bad a joke, proving that, mainstream

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A first of its kind exposé focusing on abuse and mismanagement of taxpayer dollars in Hawaii has been released this week in the midst of the state’s significant budget shortfall. Appropriately titled “2009 Hawaii Pork Report,” the publication offers many examples of outrageous waste in city and county governments throughout Hawaii as well as the

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