Although its illegal to use federal money to pay for abortions, the gargantuan healthcare bill presented this week by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will levy a new “abortion premium” fee on Americans in the government-run insurance plan. The much-ballyhooed 2,074-page bill (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) that will start being debated this weekend

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Elected officials in a leading U.S. city long distinguished for its pandemic of public corruption keep a secret, taxpayer-funded slush fund to pay family members, campaign workers and political allies for a variety of questionable jobs.  The covert account has been utilized for decades by Chicago aldermen but has escaped public scrutiny because it’s kept

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In the latest scandal to rock a perpetually corrupt local government, the District of Columbia’s council chairman illegally used official stationery to solicit donations for the Democratic Party and secretly had a politically connected city contractor renovate his house. The double whammy was exposed this week by two separate Washington D.C. newspapers hot on the

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More than 1,000 illegal immigrants awaiting trial for serious crimes in one major U.S. county were instead deported by federal immigration authorities and freed in their home countries.  The released offenders include at least 128 murderers, more than 400 child rapists and molesters, some 300 charged with aggravated assault and dozens more accused of sexual

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President Obama’s highly acclaimed stimulus spending transparency has turned out to be a painful thorn that’s exposed embarrassing falsities the administration publishes as fact to make the fraud-infested economic recovery plan look successful.  Weeks after getting busted for drastically inflating the number of jobs created by the scandal-plagued $787 billion stimulus, the White House is

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An activist Chicano professor at a taxpayer-funded university has created special technology to help Mexicans enter the United States illegally by mapping the safest routes through the notoriously rigorous southern border desert. The innovative Transborder Immigrant Tool is a simple mobile application—inserted into the cheapest available cell phone on the market—which guides illegal aliens through

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In a desperate effort to avoid impeachment, a Louisiana federal judge embroiled in a corruption scandal is suing the congressional task force that could remove him from the bench to block it from using incriminating evidence that could lead to his demise. U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Portreous claims that the impeachment task force of

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In a few months President Obama will push legislation to legalize the nation’s 12 million illegal immigrants, according to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who assures her boss’s jam-packed agenda won’t delay his campaign promise to the influential La Raza movement.  By early next year the country’s immigration system will be overhauled, guarantees Napolitano, who

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Referring to a congressman who stashed a $90,000 cash bribe in his freezer as a “cancer on the body politic,” a Virginia federal judge slapped the once-powerful Democrat with a 13-year prison sentence for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes during his lengthy political career.  Disgraced Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson, the first lawmaker

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The Senate Ethics Committee has cleared a Louisiana Democrat who steered a $2 million earmark to a company that had just donated tens of thousands of dollars to her campaign, marking the third time in the last few months that the panel dismisses a serious allegation against a member.  It took nearly two years for

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