New York officials have distributed a letter assuring illegal immigrants that their legal status will not be questioned when they seek their free American taxpayer-funded medical care at the city’s public hospitals. Published in 11 languages, the letter promises illegal immigrants that their status will be kept confidential and that they have a right to

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Feeling the heat and dip in the polls for his strong connection to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT) has conveniently blamed the “Eastern liberal press” for all of his troubles as he seeks a fourth term. As next week’s primary approaches, the 71-year-old veteran Republican senator finds his popularity slipping quickly in

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Harvey Park may be a tiny city in Illinois but several of its elected officials have gone on huge spending sprees with public money, purchasing things such as lavish vacations, plasma televisions and fancy clothes with taxpayer dollars. Federal affidavits illustrate how the district director, board chairman and assistant director spent tens of thousands of

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A recent Supreme Court ruling will make it harder for government whistleblowers to take legal action when they are retaliated against for going public with allegations of government misconduct. The court was split 5-4 in Garcetti v. Ceballos, a case in which a Los Angeles prosecutor got demoted for urging his supervisors to drop a

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Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) has had a blast lately criticizing Republican ethics, but it turns out that the Senate minority leader has also been busy violating the rules. Reid quietly accepted very expensive ringside boxing tickets from the Nevada Athletic Commission while that state agency was trying to influence him on the sport’s federal regulation.

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Hillary Clinton has been accused of “transparent pandering” by leaders of Iowa’s Republican Party for suddenly endorsing the use of ethanol after publicly opposing it for years. Could the sudden change have anything to do with the fact that, as a farm state, Iowa would benefit tremendously from corn-based ethanol consumption and the state just

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The government agency in charge of protecting the United States against terrorists and foreign intelligence threats unknowingly paid a Communist Chinese spy nearly $2 million of American taxpayer money to divulge classified information. The outrageous negligence was committed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which claims that the very heart of its operations lies

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The same federal court that said reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools is an unconstitutional endorsement of religion because it includes God, has ruled that it’s Ok for those same students to praise Allah in Muslim prayers. Outrageous as it may seem, on November 17, 2005, the ultra-liberal 9th U.S. Circuit Court of

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A government report reveals that more than one third of illegal aliens arrested annually – many of them criminals and would-be terrorists – are released because federal agencies can’t afford to hold them until they are deported. Conducted by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General, the lengthy report says that lack

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Eight-term congressman Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) who adamantly denies taking bribes despite testimony from key witnesses to the contrary, has been caught on tape accepting $100,000 in cash that he later stored in a freezer. Jefferson’s former congressional aide and a technology executive have already pleaded guilty to bribing Jefferson and aiding and abetting the

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