It seemed as if the day would never come, but U.S. lawmakers are finally working to slash the billions of taxpayer dollars sent annually to the famously corrupt and severely managed United Nations.As the U.N.’s top donor, Uncle Sam has for years provided a huge chunk of its operating budget and funded many of its laughable, multi

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Local chapters of a powerful national union that spent nearly $30 million to help President Obama get elected are among the fortunate few to get waivers from inconvenient provisions of the contentious healthcare law.The information, revealed today by a conservative news site, comes a week after this blog reported that a disproportionately high number of Obamacare

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As it suffers through a ravaging financial crisis, the nation’s most populous county spends well over half a billion dollars annually just to provide illegal immigrants with welfare food stamps.For two consecutive years Los Angeles County has doled out more than $550 million just to cover the welfare and food-stamp costs for illegal aliens, many of whom collect

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A few months after launching a multi million-dollar campaign to help minorities get green, the Obama Administration is dedicating an additional $7 million to study how pollution, stress and social factors affect “poor and underserved communities.”It’s all part of the administration’s effort to bring environmental justice to low-income populations by helping them obtain the same degree of

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In the latest of many scandals to rock a Homeland Security agency charged with protecting the Mexican border, a federal agent in southern California has been arrested for hiding illegal immigrants and drugs in a secret underground bunker at his home.The U.S. Border Patrol agent, Marcos Gerardo Manzano Jr., evidently operated an illicit business from his San

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A year after a congressional audit exposed exorbitant fraud and abuse in the federal government’s insurance program for the poor, the Justice Department is suing New York City for cheating it out of tens of millions of dollars in the last decade.Corruption in the Medicaid program is nothing new but the complaint, filed this week by the

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A “clean energy” company that got nearly $60 million in taxpayer money from a governor famous for his costly leftwing policies is closing shop and laying off hundreds of workers.The scandalous deal was sealed a few years ago by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, who promoted it as essential to the state’s economic future in clean

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For three decades the U.S. government has a supplied a successful Florida stock broker with free marijuana as part of a “compassionate” drug program and the enraging details are available in his new book partially titled “How I Convinced the Federal Government to Provide my Marijuana.”A local newspaper has published a profile of the 58-year-old,

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As Mexican drug violence reaches epic proportions, Homeland Security officials prepare to reopen a remote port of entry—closed years ago for security reasons—as an unmanned border crossing monitored by federal agents hundreds of miles away.Known as the Boquillas crossing, the port of entry is located in southwest Texas’Big Bend National Park, an 800,000-acre oasis known for its

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A United States congressman dedicated to fighting harmful anti-immigrantlegislation has introduced a bill to change a decades-old federal law so that “exemplary” illegal aliens can obtain American citizenship.California Democrat Joe Baca actually wants to amend the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act so that underage illegal immigrants can become U.S. citizens. To qualify they must somehow prove that they are “exemplary”

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